The Charles de Gaulle

On a Mediterranean cruise in 2014 while in Touton, France, we counted 17 French warships in harbour (must have been nearly their entire fleet!), including The Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier! Seventeen of the nineteen novelettes/short-stories in The Refuse Chronicles have their own covers in their ebook editions. These covers also appear on the print edition as their title page.

The Charles de Gaulle features in The Refuse Chronicles as the flagship of the UNCGSC's fictional R'lyeh Quarantine Fleet.

The cover of Convergence/Divergence/No Tomorrow (the novel's final books that tie all the various story-arcs together) is an actually photograph I took of the French nuclear aircraft carrier.