Des nouvelles d'Alan Steele
Posté : jeu. juin 28, 2007 6:56 am
Son nom ne vous dit pas forcément quelque chose et c'est normal. On a pu lire quelques nouvelles d'Alan Steele dans Cyberdreams, Bifrost et Fiction (celui des moutons).
Il évoque son nouveau roman dans une interview : Spindrift
"Setting Spindrift in the same universe as the Coyote series – which may not be a trilogy much longer, incidentally, since I’ve begun work on a fourth volume – wasn’t a matter of recycling so much as it was expansion. One of my guiding principles as a writer is something that the late Theodore Sturgeon once said: “Ask the next question.” That is to say, if you’ve set up a situation that’s open-ended, then that’s a question, and it behooves you to answer it. At the end of Coyote Frontier, I depicted the aftermath of a first-contact situation which had its genesis in the first volume, Coyote. When I reached that point of the narrative, I realized that I had posed a question – what happened to the starship that had vanished fifty-six years earlier, and how did the survivors meet an alien race? – and saw that this was an opportunity to write a novel that had been lingering in the back of my mind for the past five or six years.
This approach also gave me the ways and means of using the background I’d developed for the first three Coyote novels to go further out into the galaxy, perhaps to see what else lay out there. So Spindrift has become the branch point from the central storyline of the Coyote novels. My next novel, Galaxy Blues – which will be serialized in Asimov’s Science Fiction later this year, and published in hardcover by Ace next April – lifts off from the events of Spindrift and continues this thread. This way, I’m able to write novels and stories that are anchored to Coyote, but not necessarily confined to this one particular world."
http://ficlets.com/blog/entry/author_in ... len_steele
Il évoque son nouveau roman dans une interview : Spindrift
"Setting Spindrift in the same universe as the Coyote series – which may not be a trilogy much longer, incidentally, since I’ve begun work on a fourth volume – wasn’t a matter of recycling so much as it was expansion. One of my guiding principles as a writer is something that the late Theodore Sturgeon once said: “Ask the next question.” That is to say, if you’ve set up a situation that’s open-ended, then that’s a question, and it behooves you to answer it. At the end of Coyote Frontier, I depicted the aftermath of a first-contact situation which had its genesis in the first volume, Coyote. When I reached that point of the narrative, I realized that I had posed a question – what happened to the starship that had vanished fifty-six years earlier, and how did the survivors meet an alien race? – and saw that this was an opportunity to write a novel that had been lingering in the back of my mind for the past five or six years.
This approach also gave me the ways and means of using the background I’d developed for the first three Coyote novels to go further out into the galaxy, perhaps to see what else lay out there. So Spindrift has become the branch point from the central storyline of the Coyote novels. My next novel, Galaxy Blues – which will be serialized in Asimov’s Science Fiction later this year, and published in hardcover by Ace next April – lifts off from the events of Spindrift and continues this thread. This way, I’m able to write novels and stories that are anchored to Coyote, but not necessarily confined to this one particular world."
http://ficlets.com/blog/entry/author_in ... len_steele
