Paolo Bacigalupi parle de son nouveau roman The Drowned Cities, dans une interview en anglais qui se trouve ici. 

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“The biggest challenge for me was coming to terms with the fact that The Drowned Cities was going to be a very different book from Ship Breaker,” Bacigalupi told us. “I had intended to continue in the spirit of adventure that Ship Breaker evoked, but The Drowned Cities didn't fit that mould, and it took a long time for me to accept that and just go where the logic of the story dictated.” He also worried that “readers might feel betrayed because the tone is so much darker and the story is so much more intense, but once I decided to write about child soldiers, it meant that violence was always in the air. Give a twelve-year-old an AK and suddenly almost anything can happen on the page. And that's scary because it undermines the expectations of storytelling that demands our fiction be meaningful. I had to fight to keep my characters alive and stay true to the premise of the story.”