Une interview de George R.R.Martin

[jerome]

C'est en anglais et c'est ici. Il y revient notamment sur les débuts de la série du Trône de Fer. une série qui ne devait pas être aussi longue...

" AW: When you were coming up with the series Ice and Fire [Ed. Note: See Sidebar], what sorts of inspirations did you draw on?

GM: To a certain extent, it depends on when you’re talking about. The first notion of the series came to me in ’91, when I was mostly working in Hollywood. The first chapter came to me very vividly. I did about 50 pages until Hollywood called again, and I had to put it in a drawer for what turned out to be a couple of years. At that stage I didn’t really know what I had. A couple years later, I came back to it and found it still as fresh as when I’d written it. Finally I wrote about 150 pages and a brief summary of where I saw the story going. At that point I visualized it as a fantasy trilogy, with only three books instead of the seven I now visualize."