Un interview de James P. Blaylock

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James P. Blaylock est en interview dans Locus.

L'auteur d'Homunculus parle du Steampunk :
“I feel like a grandfather to steampunk. (In fact, I wish I were a grandfather — talk to my kids.) In about 2003, Tim Powers and I and our wives Viki and Serena went to France to a convention that was largely steampunk-oriented. Steampunk is huge in France, and I was amazed to discover it was such a big deal. I was also invited by the University of Bologna’s Department of Dystopian and Utopian Studies, to be Writer Guest of Honor at a three-day conference on steampunk. In fact, they did a whole day on Blaylock books and stories, but unfortunately we couldn’t afford to go. (I could have hung out with Umberto Eco or something. It would have been wonderful.)

“I’m shocked by the way steampunk has become such a thing here in the US as well. Last November I was Guest of Honor at a steampunk WindyCon in Chicago, and in 2008 I was at a steampunk convention in San Jose CA. In the hucksters’ room there were probably 40 tables set up: two were selling books, and 38 were selling goggles. I’m not heavily into goggles. To a degree, steampunk as a genre has sensibilities a bit different from my own. The trappings now (the goggles and the machines, all that kind of stuff) weren’t a big part of what we were doing. It seems to be largely a fashion aesthetic. Those pictures of steampunk laptops are cool looking, but….”