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Medianical Age: Drifting through the tides of time

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Medianical Age: Drifting through the tides of time. Underwater illustration

Underwater illustration

In the Summer 2024 Special Edition of my blog, I realized and introduced the Underwater Illustrations series, featuring visual portrayals of characters from my novels. One of these is the illustration for Medianical Age.

As the novel unfolds across both the Middle Ages and a distant future, the artwork presents a character from each era. A medieval castle rises in front of Peccoth, anchoring the image in a historical past, while luminous circuits shine in front of Ludh, symbolizing the far-off future. The light emitted from the circuits reflects not only on Ludh but also subtly touches Peccoth—echoing how the future ripples back into the Middle Ages within the story’s timeline. To ground the scene within the science fiction genre, the upper portion of the background reveals a vast, starry sky—suggesting the cosmic scope and technological depth that shape the narrative world.



Medianical Age: Drifting through the tides of time. Summer. Automatas, cyborgs

K-79: Automatons and cyborgs

K-79, a character from Medianical Age, also appears in a chapter of my novel Casos Descartados (a detective comedy set in the 19th century), specifically in El Caso del inventor (The Case of the Inventor). While in his original novel he is dedicated to creating cyborgs in the future, in Casos Descartados he builds automatons in the 19th century, which can be considered the precursors of the former.

In Medianical Age, the characters from the future are capable of time travel through technology. The “logic” behind this is that K-79 could have visited the 19th century, but in addition, the character adapts his concept to the era. If he builds cyborgs in the future, in the 19th century he creates automatons.



Red-haired characters in the novels of M.A. Álvarez

In all my novels, there is a red-haired character

For the World Book Day 2024 Special, I published a blog post exploring the red-haired characters across my stories, along with an illustration I created myself featuring them. Among these characters is Peccoth, from Medianical Age.

Truth be told, it wasn’t something I planned —having a red-haired character in every novel. But while working on this story and designing Peccoth, both in words and visuals, I dove deep into researching red-haired people throughout history. After so much thought and exploration, one day I suddenly realized: every single one of my novels has a redhead! And I must say, I was genuinely fascinated by this unexpected coincidence.

Curious to learn more about the red-haired characters across my stories?
Read the full blog post (in Spanish) — translation available via Google Translate plugin.



Red-haired characters in the novels of M.A. Álvarez

World Book Day 2025

As every year, I celebrate World Book Day with a special blog post and this time, I’m sharing a very special chapter in my journey as a writer:
-My first novel in English is now a reality: Medianical Age: Drifting through the tides of time.
-I also had my first interview in English, and… I’ve just launched thise website of the book!

Read the full story here.

To those of you who are with me every step of the way on this adventure as a writer: thank you so much! Whether it's in person, through social media, or on my blog, your support means everything to me.



Medianical Age: Drifting through the tides of time. Summer

Christmas 2024 Special

For the Christmas 2024 Special on my blog, I shared an illustration featuring characters from my novels.

In it, you can see Peccoth and Ludh, characters from Medianical Age.