Un nouveau James Lovegrove (en anglais)

[jerome]

Solaris a annoncé qu'ils allaient publié un nouveau roman de science fiction de James Lovegrove, l'auteur de Days.

Il s'intulera : The Age of Ra.

voici ce qu'on peut lire sur le site de Solaris


In The Age of Ra, the ancient Egyptian gods have defeated all the other pantheons and claimed dominion over the Earth. The world is divided into warring factions, each under the aegis of a different deity. Lt. David Westwynter, a British soldier, stumbles into Freegypt, the only place on the planet to have remained independent of the gods’ influence. There, he encounters the followers of a humanist leader known as the Lightbringer, who has vowed to rid mankind of the shackles of divine oppression. David and the Lightbringer have a personal connection. And there is far more to this freedom fighter than it seems, even as he drags the world towards one final, apocalyptic battle.

The Age of Ra is a powerful science fiction novel exploring themes of freedom, oppression, war and love, and a desperate fight for control of the Earth. Solaris will publish it in 2009, in both the UK and US.

[jerome]

Une autre interview de Lovegrove sur son nouveau livre The Age of Ra avec le petit extrait :

"UKSFBN: It sounds from the synopsis that with The Age of Ra you're once again exploring the weird zone where prose fiction meets comic-book plotlines? Is that the case, or will the novel be more of a straight alternate-history?

James Lovegrove: "Originally George Mann at Solaris asked me to do an alternate-history story for them, and I was only too happy to oblige, especially as I'd already dipped a toe in the water of that genre with Provender Gleed and it's a genre I've always liked.

"I sent Solaris three ideas, and the one they jumped at, which happened to be the one I was most eager to do, was The Age of Ra. It isn't straight alternate history, in as much as I'm not introducing real-world events and figures into it to hold them up for comparison or to make satirical points, à la Moorcock.

"It's more a fantasy-flavoured imagining of how the world might have turned out if (a) gods are real and (b) one of the pantheons decided to turf out all the others and claim the entire earth for itself. One of George's other requests was that the novel be pulp-fiction-ish, or at any rate have pulpy elements, and again I was only too happy to oblige, because lately I've been analysing what it is I like about certain comics and pop-culture movies, things such as the pace, the scene changes and the outlandish characters and plot turns, and wondering how I might be able to synthesise those with my own writing.

"I've been inclining in that direction with my teen fantasy series and it seemed foolish not to try and do the same with my 'serious', 'grown-up' books as well. In other words, The Age of Ra is a foretaste of the direction I see my work going in the next few years: more rompy but still with a serious edge"

toute l'interview est ici