Des news de William Gibson

[jerome]

Amazon a publié une interview de William Gibson en trois parties. La dernière vient d'être mise en ligne. Il y parle essentiellement de Google.

Mais sutout il évoque son nouveau roman : Spook Country
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It's a book in which shadowy and mysterious characters are using New York's smallest crime family, a sort of boutique operation of smugglers and so-called illegal facilitators, to get something into North America. And you have to hang around to the end of the book to find out what they're doing. So I guess it's a caper novel in that regard."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNK23UQAS62CUYEJ

[orcusnf]

Il sait se servir de google ? Il fait des progrès alors !!

[jerome]

William Gibson est sur tous les fronts avec la sortie de son nouveau roman. Il y a une interview audio ici

[jerome]

William Gibson a accepté une discussion avec James Patrick Kelly autour du cyberpunk.

Tout le dialogue est ici

petit extrait :

"JPK: You are one of the most influential sf writers of your generation. If we use the term "cyberpunk" as a catchall to describe that influence, is there anything about the forms cyberpunk has taken over the years that has surprised you?
WG: I don't see cyberpunk as having had much effect on mainstream "genre" sf at all, really. Walk into any sf specialty shop and ask for contemporary cyberpunk-inflected fiction. I don't think you'll find much. As a "flavor" of popular culture, cyberpunk seems to me to have had much more influence on other forms: films, music, video, games..."

[jerome]

Et j'en rajoute une couche avec une nouvelle interview de Gibson.

Petit extrait à propos de Spook Country

“The novel revolves around a group of characters searching for a mysterious shipping container. One of the things I've found myself talking about a lot is that I didn't know what was in the container until I was several hundred pages into the manuscript. That had me scared to death, because none of the things I'd imagined might be in the container were working for me at all. (I'd originally planned a whole subplot about it, one that went in a completely different direction.) Things like that haunt me, because I don't get many ideas. I've always felt doing book proposals was the least honest part of my process. I go in and say, 'It's gonna be like this,' and I'm always amazed that any of the characters or anything I've mentioned make it into the book because of the way I work. I'm not conscious about what I'm doing -- I'm just doing it.