Si Michael Swanwick n'est plus vraiment publié en France, il sort un nouveau roman en anglais au mois de mai. Son titre Dancing with Bears. Il en parle dans une interview sur Amazon.

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Now, he’s back with Dancing with Bears--a novel that is flat-out brilliant, edgy, kick-ass work, featuring two of the narstiest most entertaining rogues in recent memory. It's like Swanwick thinks he's 18 again and in a punk band...er, a punk band that can write. In a post-utopian future complete with dangerously weird robots, con-men Darger and Surplus are on their way to Russia, having quite “innocently” having acquired a caravan along the way--a caravan delivering a priceless gift from the Caliph of Baghdad to the Duke of Muscovy. If things were tough before they got to Russia, they’re positively absurd with intrigue, revolution, and double-crossing once they’ve arrived with their precious cargo. Some might say Darger and Surplus are cruel men, but in this world, they’re just using their talents to survive in a world of far more powerful rogues. Amazon.com caught up with Swanwick to talk about this forthcoming novel, and especially about the impetus behind two such distinctive characters. Amazon.com: Can you remember where Darger and Surplus came from in your imagination, and did they pop out fully formed or evolve over time? Michael Swanwick: I’d just read Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon and it made me want to write something with a talking dog--not one like Pynchon’s but something different. So I sat down cold and penned a description of Surplus, newly arrived at the docks of the Thames, looking like something out of a children’s book. Then, because he was clearly being observed by somebody, I had his complete opposite, the nondescript Darger, walk up to him with a proposition. At which point they seized control of the narrative from me and ran off with it, setting fire to London in the process. As their adventures progress, I’m learning more about the nuances of their characters and details of their pasts. But their essential characters were fully formed by the time they’d exchanged twenty words.