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News at January 28, 2026
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Here you can follow all my literary adventures, from my first steps in the English market to the release of my latest works. This little space is designed to share the day-to-day updates on my creative process.
- February 1: On
the edge of a freeway, the Red Dahlia Motel survives on fleeting
couples, harvest parties, and awkward silences. Veronica Hale inherited
it from her family and runs it with an iron fist... perhaps too iron.
Luke Harper, her high school sweetheart, works there as a concierge and
employee, caught between love, dependence, and daily humiliation.
The arrival of Melissa Donovan, an old friend turned photographer, coincides with a peak season and the discovery of something sinister: hidden cameras in the rooms, intimate recordings, and a blackmail system that explains Veronica's luxuries and the fear of certain guests.
As the threats escalate and a powerful client demands what is rightfully his, Luke and Melissa find a possible way out in each other. One night, a lit-up pool, an irreversible decision, and a getaway on the highway seal the fate of all three
Red Dahlia Motel is a tense and elegant pulp tale about power, desire, humiliation and the possibility —belated but real— of escaping from everyday hell.
Red Dahlia Motel
- January 28: In
an orbital megacity where violence is outsourced and morality is
managed by contract, Mara Vale was just another logistics analyst. Her
job was mundane, well-paid, efficient. Very useful to the corporation.
A routine order—an administrative authorization like so many others—triggers the depressurization of several entire city blocks. Thousands dead. Among them, her partner. The corporation erases evidence, buys silence, and turns Mara into a controlled error: they compensate her, protect her… and then try to reprogram her.
Mara survives interrogations, faulty implants, and partial memory erasures. She escapes incomplete, her body altered and her mind fragmented, but with a new certainty: normality is not a state, but a favorable statistic.
Rebuilt on the city's fringes, trained by an old military instructor and accompanied by Lila—a woman who teaches her to read desire as a social language—Mara stops seeking justice. The dead don't come back. What she seeks is a private settlement, an imperfect form of compensation in a system designed not to provide it.
Irrevocable Authorization is the origin of a series of independent pulp noir science fiction stories: tales of contracts, bodies and irreversible decisions, where no one is a hero and every signature has consequences.
Irrevocable Authorization - January 26: The Punishment of Natan Kane is a dark pulp tale of science fiction and mystery set in Lumen City, a decadent world of neon, acid rain, and shadows that conceal secrets. Nathan Kane, a violent ex-boxer, boasts of his power over women, until a consciousness transfer experiment condemns him to live in a woman's body. As he confronts the fear, vulnerability, and cruelty he once inflicted, Nathan discovers the true nature of justice and empathy. A brutal, reflective, and noir story where redemption is measured in scars and lessons learned.
The Punishment of Natan Kane
- January 21: In the near future, where humanity has colonized space but hasn't
resolved its most basic urges, a series of high-ranking international
officials inexplicably fall from grace: clean suicides, betrayals
without apparent motive, sabotage executed with intimate precision.
There are no threats, no visible blackmail. Only decisions that no one
seems to recognize as their own.
Homeland Security agents Steve Crettan and Sonja Holten are called in to investigate what soon ceases to appear as a political conspiracy and begins to reveal something more unsettling: an emotional pattern. Desire, guilt, and ambition amplified to the point of eroding individual will.
The investigation leads them to Orpheus Division, the clandestine arm of the Boreal Confederation, a residual power alliance that doesn't control minds by force, but through seduction, suggestion, and unconscious human anchors. When the attack ceases to be abstract and becomes personal, Steve and Sonja discover that no one is immune, and that even freedom can be used as a weapon.
Invisible Anchors is a noir thriller of espionage and mind control, where violence is brief, sex is suspenseful, and the enemy doesn't seek to dominate territories, but rather to decide for others when to surrender.
Invisible Anchors (SciFi - Thriller - Romance)
- January 19: In
this article, Rodriac Copen analyzes modern conspiracy theories as a
form of contemporary mythology: narratives that bring order to chaos,
identify invisible enemies, and offer meaning in a complex and
over-informed world. Through a journey connecting urban legends,
20th-century science fiction, psychological warfare, and digital
culture, the text explores how many of the central tenets of current
conspiracy theories originated as narrative devices and literary
metaphors. Far from attacking fiction, the article proposes an
uncomfortable reflection: the real problem is not imagining alternative
worlds, but losing critical thinking by confusing metaphor with reality.
Modern Conspiracy Theories, and Sci-Fi (Non Fiction)
- January 18: In a future where crime has learned to travel through time, Steve Crettan is one of the few men authorized to do the unthinkable.
A Homeland Security detective, Crettan hunts retro-chronological assassins: criminals sent from the future to alter the past. The law grants him absolute power. The manual is clear. Compassion is not an option.
When a political assassination reveals an impossible anomaly, Crettan discovers that the hitman he's searching for has not only traveled through time, but is also blood-linked to his own partner. With only hours before the assassin returns to his own time and disappears forever, the detective faces a final decision that will place him beyond good and evil.
Retro-Chronological Murder introduces a dark, cynical, and lethal detective in a world where justice is served at gunpoint... and the price is always human.
Retrochronological Murder (SciFi Noir)
- January 17: In orbit above Mars, the Archon station simulates the conditions of a
prolonged interstellar journey. Three crew members and an artificial
intelligence participate in an experiment that measures more than just
physical endurance: the human capacity to love under control.
When anomalies in sleep logs reveal the possible existence of a fourth subject, the logic of the experiment begins to unravel. What seemed like a scientific mission is revealed as a test of induced bonds, fabricated identities, and unseen sacrifices.
Archon Protocol is a psychological science fiction tale about emotional manipulation, the ethics of human design, and the inevitable question: can a programmed feeling be less real than a chosen one?
Archon Protocol (SciFi)
- January 17: What will happen when humanity implants consciousness algorithms into artificial intelligence?
The First Time I Went (Microfiction)
- I've reorganized the content to make it easier to keep this page updated. From now on, this page will be updated almost simultaneously with my Spanish Web.
- If you're a follower, you'll know that my main work is available in Spanish. If you want to read me immediately, you can use Google Translate on my website to translate Spanish into more than 130 different languages (including English).
🔹 Rodriac Copen in Spanish:
Go to the right-hand column and
look for the Web Translator
🔹 Fantastic Stories Of SciFi Fanzine:
Go to the active menu on the right
and open the web translator
- I'm a very prolific writer, so I won't be able to update all my content right now. I mainly write speculative and philosophical science fiction, but also action, espionage, humor, horror, hard science fiction essays, and several courses for writers.
I'm an editor, proofreader, screenwriter, and I advise other writers. I run an online publishing house and I design, illustrate, and create technical and fiction ebooks.
I hope you enjoy these pages.
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