PIZZ’ASGARD
PUBLISHER
L’Atelier du Jeudi
GENRE
Urban Fantasy
LANGUAGE
French
SUMMARY
Freyja is one of the only goddesses that adapted successfully to our modern world. Thanks to Pizz’Asgard, her magical phone-network, she can easily track down the future champions of Asgard right before their death and bring them their tickets to the afterworld – and a pizza. However, it’s becoming harder and harder to reconcile her work and her love-life. Tonight is no different: her date with her partner Hel fell apart when Pizz’Asgard sent her Paris… Well, too bad, but one night of work is not the end of the world. Is it?
Pizz’Asgard is available in the anthology Apocawitch. Check out the publisher’s website for more info!
HACKER LE POULPE
PUBLISHER
Éditions Arkuiris
GENRE
Science Fiction
LANGUAGE
French
SUMMARY
In the distant future, a scientist finds a remarkable octopus whose mind seems to be connected to all of the members of its species. What’s to do to prove his theory? Hack it of course! And how best to do that than thrusting a human’s mind into this newfound hivemind, in order to try and learn the secret of telepathy…
Hacker le poulpe is available in the anthology Les Océans du Futur. Check out the publisher’s website for more info!
L’HOMME ET LE SONGE
PUBLISHER
Éditions Arkuiris
GENRE
Science Fiction
LANGUAGE
French
SUMMARY
At long last, the world is nothing more than a giant, dull megalopole. To recreate natural places, people developped so much augmented reality, now called “alternate reality”, that it began to leak into the real world and gave life to people’s dreams… Of course, everything went wrong when the dreams started to develop sentience.
L’homme et le Songe is available in the anthology Entre rêves et irréalité. Check out the publisher’s website for more info!
RETOUR RAPIDE
PUBLISHER
Fantasy Art & Studies
GENRE
Science Fantasy
LANGUAGE
French
SUMMARY
When a goblin tries to blow up a planet, he’d better remember what colour the wire he should plug-in first is. Should he forget, no problem! He just needs to rewind time a little bit to ask his engineer about the specifics! Should multiple versions of him forget at the same time, and rewind to the same point in the past… Well, let’s just say time’s not gentle with those who abuse this kind of tricks.
Retour Rapide is available in Fantasy Art & Studies #3 about Science Fantasy. You can read it for free on their website!
LA BOÎTE
PUBLISHER
Présences d’Esprits
GENRE
Science Fiction
LANGUAGE
French
SUMMARY
What is in this mysterious box that Louis entrusted to his friend? At first, nothing, it seems… But in time—and by time, I mean several years—it will reveal its secrets at last… a whole universe of secrets.
La Boîte is available in A.O.C. #39, a revue published by Présences d’Esprits. Check out their website!
AZURE
PUBLISHER
Le Renard Loquace
GENRE
Science Fiction
LANGUAGE
French
SUMMARY
Azure is a short story about a little girl lost in a post-apocalyptic world, where rain is her worst enemy. It can destroy entire buildings and people wandering carelessly in the outside will probably never return. The only way to be safe is to find a shelter covered with ivy, which oddly is not affected by rain. But ivy tends to leave quickly the inhabited places, forcing people to constantly move from one building to another. The story begins when Azure’s mother doesn’t come back and the little girl has to move to the next shelter all alone.
Azure is available in Glitch Out #1, a revue published on the website Le Renard Loquace. You can read it for free here!
LA BANSHEE
PUBLISHER
Présences d’Esprits
GENRE
Fantasy
LANGUAGE
French
SUMMARY
“Tonight, there is a drop of poison in my infusion. Maybe if I stand at death’s doors the banshee will come for me.
The mist haunting the valleys reminds me memories of flames and death, of my country, of my past, of my losses. Memories of a goddess warrior who meddled with my life, at a time when I had no more desire to live…”
La Banshee is available in A.O.C. #32, a revue published by Présences d’Esprits. Check out their website!
NIFLHEIM
PUBLISHER
Le Monde de l’Écriture
GENRE
Fantasy
LANGUAGE
French
SUMMARY
In Niflheim, a little huddled town, the winter has no end. Spring is nothing more than a legend and flowers are mere fairy tales. But a little girl keeps on believing they will come back one day, and searches for a proof, upsetting her disillusioned big brother.
Niflheim is available in Le Mammouth Éclairé #1, a revue published by Le Monde de l’Écriture. Check out the revue’s website!
LA SOLITUDE
PUBLISHER
iPagination
GENRE
Fantastic
LANGUAGE
French
SUMMARY
This is the story of a young orphan who doesn’t care about being alone in the big city he lives in, and of a girl who can’t stand anymore the disinterest that people show about anything other than the Internet. It is the story of their meeting and of their journey to Solitude’s dominion.
La Solitude is available in the anthology Il serait une fois published by iPagination. You can buy it here!