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2 August 2018
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Asteria is really back, and needs your help

asteria base Asteria in the court of the Sun King is finished, and I am revising the text and deciding the final tweaks.
I am also uncertain, at this point, about the format of the publication: a single volume collecting the three novellas, or a new novella every week for this month of August?
Any suggestion is welcome.

And I mention one novella per week, throughout the month, because as I was closing Sun King, I fell back to the habit of closing the story with a hook for the next adventure. And it goes like this… Continue reading →

28 February 2016
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The Perils of Pauline: The Goddess of the Far West

Second episode in the adventures of Pauline cliffhanger, and a poor copy, I am afraid.
But you know how it goes – Pauline wants to take a vacation… danger and derrimg-do ensue.

21 February 2016
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The Perils of Pauline: Trial by Fire

The Perils of Pauline, as I mentioned in a previous post, is a seminal movie cliffhanger serial from 1914, directed by Louis J. Gasnier and Donald MacKenzie, and starring Pearl White, Crane Wilbur and Paul Panzer.

Only 9 episodes of the original run of 20 survive today¹, and here’s the first – Trial by Fire.
The quality is not very high and I personally find the soundtrack unnerving, but what to say… Enjoy!

In 2008 The Perils of Pauline was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”