On Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe Murder,Love,Poetry and the Moon!

Sunday 14th February 2010 on “Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe”

Peter May is the award-winning author of 15 novels including two series: The China Thrillers, six books featuring Beijing detective Li Yan and American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell; and The Enzo Files, a series of books set in France featuring Scottish forensic scientist Enzo MacLeod.

May’s standalone thriller Virtually Dead set in the online world of Second Life was published in January 2010.

May won the French Prix Intramuros in 2007 for his book Snakehead and was made an honorary member of the Chinese Crime Writers’ Association. Born in Scotland, May now lives in France.

In 2007 Peter May entered the world of Second Life and opened up a Private Detective Agency under the name Flick Faulds. He did this to research his book Virtualy Dead. On this Weeks show Peter May as Flick Faulds will tell us what he learned and how his book is now being regarded and perceived in real life and in Second Life.

Rosedrop Rust is a child of the 60′s and 70′s he is known for his Wit his Music and his Poetry in Second Life. Through the 60′s and 70′s he played the Coffee shops in San Francisco and Oregan, and sang protest songs. Tonight though he is channelling his romantic Poet persona he will thrill us with his reading, then give us some insight into his life now and his history.

NASA sponsored “Moonworld” has opened in Second Life. Built by the folks at Avatrian its purpose is for training Teaching staff as a precursor to another similer development to be built where both teachers and students can don space suits and explore the moon and learn about its geology, its atmospheric conditions and its geography. Once on “Moonworld” you get a wonderfull sense of how it would be to jump on the Moon! and what tools and equipment you need to get around and take samples.

Frecka Salsman is a Senior Educational Researcher, PhD and is the support to Executive Director, lunar scientist Dr. Charles A. Wood, in his effort to design, develop, implement, and study MoonWorld as a virtual world learning environment. We will be talking to Frecka about what happens on this Virtual Moon and what we can learn from it.