Christopher Priest était en forme lorsqu'il a rédigé ce billet (signalé par le Blog de Lunes d'encre). 

 

Pas mal d'auteurs en prennent pour leur grade... 

 

Extrait sur Arthur C.Clarke et sa "promotion" à travers le prix qui porte son nom : 

 

"This first impression led naturally to a question that is often asked: what is an award like the Clarke actually for? Well, obviously to reward a writer who is seen to have done well that year. But there is the less often admitted reward for the sponsor, in this case the late Arthur C. Clarke, who evidently liked the idea of a literary award named after him. But with Sir Arthur now gone to the great communications satellite in the sky, the remaining collective motive must be to make some kind of statement to the larger world about the condition of science fiction writing in the present day. We want the best writer to win every year, but we also want to have a showcase to demonstrate that he or she is the best of an exciting bunch, that the overall activity is a progressive, modern literature, with diversity and ambition and ability, and not the pool of generic rehashing that the many outside detractors of science fiction are so quick to assume it is."