Dans une courte interview, Tad Williams parle de cette sequel.
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Extrait :
Shawn Speakman: You and DAW Books have announced The Last King of Osten Ard, a new trilogy set after your bestselling epic fantasy trilogy, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. You have said for years that you may return to Osten Ard — either through short stories or a new novel. It is now a trilogy. How did you come full circle back to the trilogy format for The Last King of Osten Ard?
williams-tadTad Williams: I had collected (in my head) a number of potential story ideas for an Osten Ard anthology of sorts, called Chronicle in Stone, but not enough to press me into working on it. My wife Deborah asked me (innocently) why I couldn’t ever write another full story set in that world, and I tried to explain to her about not having an idea being the most basic problem. Then I began to think about it, as I tend to do whenever I bump into something I don’t fully understand, and once I hooked the basic idea, the story began creating itself. Within a few days I was telling Deb, “You know, I might have been wrong about that can’t-write-an-Osten-Ard-story thing…”