Stephen Deas parle d'Adamantine Palace

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L'auteur de fantasy Stephen Deas signe un article sur son roman Le Palais adamantin

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"First, let me be clear about one thing. “The Memory of Flames” (of which The Adamantine Palace is the first part) is flash-bang fantasy. It’s written to be fast, furious and fun. Dragons! Intrigue! Murder! Sword-fights! That sort of thing. There’s a ton of reviews scattered around the internet that will tell you all about that side of things and I don’t intend to say any more. I will explain one piece of background, however, relevant to the Big Idea theme here.

The dragons in these books are monsters. They’re not cute, they’re not cuddly, and the only reason anyone gets to ride around on the back of them is because they are forcibly subdued by alchemical potions that are fed to them from birth. In fact, these dragons are so dangerous that for even one to break free could spell disaster for pretty much the entire civilisation (no prizes for guessing what happens pretty close to page one).

So you can, and probably should, read it as a straight epic fantasy with a cast of shady characters and a rampaging dragon that’s pretty ticked off about having been kept in a drugged stupor. I had no pretensions to anything more than a story about kick-ass dragons that ran on rocket-fuel when I set out to write these books; but sometimes when you sit down and write, you don’t get quite what you asked for."