The Flammarion Engraving: Inspiration for The Invisible College Trilogy Covers
January 29, 2019
The inspiration for the background of the covers of my The Invisible College Trilogy. According to Wikipedia, 'the Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in Camille Flammarion's L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire (1888). The image depicts a man crawling under the edge of the sky, depicted as if it were […]
One Final (Probably) Visit to Vanuatu
January 17, 2019
In December 2018 I spent a couple of weeks in Vanuatu for what may well be my final visit. My partner works in International Development and is like to have only one more assignment there. It is a beautiful country and claims, with some justification, to have the most friendly population in the world. Of […]