Une interview de Vernor Vinge sur The Children of the Sky

[jerome]

Voici une interview en anglais de Vernor Vinge sur The Children of the Sky, son nouveau roman.

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AL: A Fire Upon the Deep was about big issues, like the rise of the Blight, a malevolent machine intelligence. The Children of the Sky focuses on humans interacting with the alien Tines. How did that shift affect your approach to writing the second book?

VV: I put more emphasis on the Tines. There are consequences of their nature that may not have been evident in A Fire Upon the Deep. On the human side, I had fun with the “uplift” theme. Technological development gets a boost if you know that something can be done, and it should get an even bigger boost if you have a library of science and engineering books. Ravna’s ship’s library contains the results of thousands of years of study about how to develop technology and capital industry—and she has computer programs to customize the development path for particular environments. This gives her hope that she can uplift the Tines and the Children before the Blighter Threat descends from the heavens.