Une interview de Ian Watson

[jerome]

Ian Watson est en interview ici. Il parle notamment de ses projets :


"MMR: What’s in the works for Ian Watson? Upcoming projects? Readings? Films? Books/collections?
IW: I also co-run SF conventions, so Newcon5 (http://www.newcon5.com/) is upcoming in October 2010, the only convention held in a Fishmarket (admittedly converted into an arts lab) if any readers of this happen to be near Northampton UK at the time. I’ve enormously enjoyed going to conventions run by other people, so I like to put something back into the community. And I preside over the Northampton SF Writers Workshop which has even given rise to a publisher, namely Ian Whates’ fast expanding NewCon Press (http://www.newconpress.co.uk/), one of its most recent products being the first ever publication in English of my Japanese-influenced erotic satire Orgasmachine. Beautifully produced books!

I’m still trying to get an agent or publisher for an ambitious novel about the Black Death (which was not bubonic plague) co-written over the course of two years with Andy West, another member of the NSFWG, set in medieval Syria, Iran and Ethiopia, and in the very near future in America, Europe and the Middle East. Actually I’ve never used an agent before, simply doing the job myself, but this book is a different kettle of fish. Always try to do something new! I’m off to the Semana Negra cultural fiesta in the north of Spain in July (I’ve been teaching myself Spanish for a few years), so I’m hoping that the Icelandic volcano calms down or that winds blow from the south at the time, and to Sicily and Rome in September so that one of my Italian publishers can publicise his edition of my Gardens of Delight set in the ‘domain’ of Hieronymus Bosch.

Oh, and Games Workshop have finally relented and un-banned my Warhammer 40K novel Space Marine which people were paying a lot for tattered copies of on eBay, and whilst they won’t allow it in their own shops in case it confuses their younger clientele it’s now available as print on demand, and apparently copies are flying forth. My decade-long campaign of Chinese water torture (drip drip drip of humour and patience) finally succeeded. Never lose one’s temper with publishers!"