Daniel Abraham est en interview en anglais ici. L'auteur notamment des Cités de lumière parle de fantasy.

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Definitely going to dig on some of the forthcoming stuff. But let's drill a little on The Long Price Quartet. You write of it as semi-literary epic fantasy—a very cool blend, by the way. Say more about that. Daniel Abraham : Well, of course, they aren't my first books. My first book was something I did in High School called Tales from the Immodest Elf, that being the name of the tavern that everyone met in. I suspect it might work now as parody. Then there was a terribly ponderous thing I did in college. And one that actually got sold to a small press which shall remain nameless, and from which I bought it back. Unreal City, that was. Got as far as getting really deeply cool Rick Berry cover art before that one went south. Unreal City was the one I gave to my agent when I first got an agent. Her thought was "Cool, what've you got that I might possibly be able to sell?" Fair question. I'd had a short story in Asimov's called The Lesson Half-Learned that folks liked. I showed it to her, and it became the prolog of the first book of the Long Price Quartet. There were a couple of things I was really aiming for in the Long Price books. First off, I wanted to do something I hadn't seen before. What I came up with first was a structure. It's four stand-alone books that add up to something more than the single books together. Which isn't really new, because I copped the basic idea from Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, but since that's not really part of the bones of epic fantasy, usually speakin', I got away with seeming clever. Then it was in the semi-Asian world instead of the more usual semi-European one. And I had a magic system no one had seen before. All in all, it made for something that I at least thought was pretty different. Second, I wanted to write a straight-up epic fantasy with war and magic and all the stuff that I really like about epic fantasy. And I also wanted to talk about how mind-blowingly epic a normal life is. My grandmother's my example on that. When she was born, we hadn't had a world war yet, much less two of them. My daughter lives a world where you watch cartoons on Daddy's phone. The change in worlds between when Gramma was a kid and now is more profound than anything I could make up. And I wanted to write about that. Okay, so three things. I also wanted to learn how to write novel-length books. And I figured the only way to really do that was to write a bunch of 'em.