Des news de Kathleen Ann Goonan

[jerome]

Kathleen Ann Goonan (Queen City Jazz) vient de publier : In War Times, un roman en pleine seconde guerre mondiale
et qui met en scène un soldat qui a un plan poury mettre fin.

"The plans for the device were given to Sam by Dr. Eliani Hadntz, a scientist at the forefront of European physics, who was brought to the United States to work on the atomic bomb, Goonan said. "She has worked with all the luminaries of physics now in the U.S., including Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn, both of whom confirmed the physics making fission possible," she said. "She tells Sam that an atomic bomb is in production, and that her alternative is better."

Postwar, when Sam and Wink can only see one another at Army reunions, they realize that the device has worked, Goonan said. "But what it does, exactly, and how it affects the world, history and Sam's family, ... draws personal responsibility and morality in the larger scheme of things heartbreakingly together," she said. "

Toute l'info est là : http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.ph ... 5&id=42443

[jerome]

Kathleen Ann Goonan était elle aussi en interview dans le mag de Locus. Des extraits sont en ligne. Elle parle de In War Times, son dernier roman.


“Most people who really enjoy music, experience it as a form of transcendence. That's why I used Charlie 'Bird' Parker and the birth of bebop along with the quantum indeterminacy 'many worlds' ideas and World War II for In War Times. For me, there are a lot of links, because the idea of modernity is linked to the sciences, and I think it was the movement in the sciences that birthed modernity in the arts. Bebop was another manifestation of that, because it was a completely new form of music. The people who played it came out of the jazz tradition, and yet it broke the mold. Bebop itself is a form of transcendence. (I know they all came to dislike that term. They called bebop 'modern music,' 'modern jazz.')”

Tout est ici : http://www.locusmag.com/2007/Issue09_Goonan.html