Cutting-Edge Stories from Sébastien de Clercq

Explore Sébastien de Clercq’s dedication to pioneering dystopian and utopian fiction as well as insightful essays, uniquely blending adventure, politics, climate, linguistics and technology to challenge and inspire readers worldwide.

Go check out Isle of the Grey Monks, the first book of three in the suspenseful, gripping the edge of your seat, dystopian/utopian, geopolitical thriller trilogy: Diaspora. Isle of the Grey Monks is initially being released for absolutely FREE to everyone on community platform Wattpad at this URL address, no strings attached: https://shorturl.at/gLmpw

It’s being released to Wattpad in chunks, chapter by chapter, as soon as my wonderful assistant and I can get it uploaded.

After being fully released to Wattpad, we also anticipate Isle of the Grey Monks being available for FREE on Smashwords.

Then the REAL excitement begins, when Book 2 of the Diaspora trilogy, Archipelago, and book 3, Diaspora Unbound, get released to book.io and possibly written.app, two newer, promising futuristic and much more equitable publishing platforms based on blockchain technology. Nerdy? Maybe, but it protects readers, authors, and prevents disgusting MAGA Trumpian oligarchs from taking 30%+ of the profits, hurting authors and causing readers to pay increasingly higher book prices.

This trilogy, Diaspora, is something I’ve spent 15 years working on. It has gone through countless revisions, but the craziness since Trump 2.0 took office in January of this year, caused me to re-think a few things, and his and his régime’s fascist, authoritarian insanity sadly inspired me to tweak a few things. Such as, fascist bloopers are a REAL THING.

FYI: For so many reasons, I don’t publish books to Amazon. Jeff Bezos, amongst the top reasons! If you read my trilogy Diaspora, you’ll quickly understand and probably agree that billionaire oligarchs are evil. So, I don’t do business with them if I can avoid it! Maybe none of us should?