Voici une interview de l'auteur de science fiction David Weber. C'est en anglais.

Extrait :
"Jon K.: “1. When you first came up with the idea for this book did you see it as a multipart series? 2. When starting a series like this, before writing the actual book did you have to sit down and spend a lot of time coming up with the science, back story, and other elements of the universe? 3. Looking back on this first novel, On Basilisk Station, is there anything you would have liked to change in the story or for that matter in the universe as a whole?

DW: Actually, the Honor Harrington novels were planned as a multipart series from the beginning. “Standalone” books of mine have a tendency to sprout sequels anyway, so Jim Baen asked me to propose a deliberate series. I handed him several concepts (including the Honorverse), only to discover that he’d been looking for someone for about 20 years to do what he thought of as a “Horatio Hornblower in outer space” series. The rest, as they say, is history.

Usually, before I start any book, I sit down and write myself an essay about the universe in which it’s going to be set. That deals with the science, politics, military balance — all that stuff. In the case of the Honorverse, the original essay was about 80,000 words long. By now, the tech bible is up to at least a quarter million words, I’d estimate, including timelines.

There are always small things you wish you’d done differently, even in the most successful book. Overall, though, I’m inclined to say that I wouldn’t have made any significant changes. One reason I say that is that as soon as you start tinkering with one significant detail, there are ripple effects that have a tendency to prove that the law of unintended consequences works in fiction as well as in real life."

toute l'interview