Des news d'Alastair Reynolds

[jerome]

Le roman d'Alastair Reynolds "The Prefect" est finaliste cette année du British Science Fiction Award.

Il en a dit un peu plus sur son livre ici
the book combines the tropes of SF and crime fiction.

"As an avid reader of crime novels and a fan of TV shows such as 24, I liked the idea of doing a kind of police procedural story," Reynolds said in an interview. "Along the way I couldn't avoid straying into areas related to security and civil liberty--big issues right now."

The Prefect is a thriller about the Glitter Band, a halo of 10,000 space habitats orbiting a planet in another solar system in the early decades of the 25th century.

"A handful of habitats drop offline unexpectedly, severed from the instantaneous mass-democracy system which binds the rest of the Band," Reynolds said. "As the Prefects investigate--they're the effective police force, although there are only a thousand of them--the crisis escalates until it threatens the entire society. The story then becomes a race against time to save the Glitter Band from at least one, and possibly two, hostile artificial intelligences." .

Alastair Reynolds vient également de terminer House of Suns, un roman qui se passe dans 6 millions d'années.

[jerome]

Et pour les anglophiles, je vous rajoute le chapitre deux de House of Suns d'Alastair Reynolds.

Il est disponible en anglais gratuitement ici

[jerome]

Encore une interview d'Alastair Reynolds sur House of Suns.

Without giving anything away, what can you tell your fans about House of Suns?

It's a standalone novel, set in a universe which I've only written about once before, in my novella Thousandth Night. It takes that story as a starting point, but messes around with some of the assumptions and characters. The plot is totally different. The book takes place (mostly) around six million years from now, at a time when humans have colonised and re-colonised the galaxy many times over. The main protagonists (there are two first-person narrators) are clones, members of an extended family of starfaring "shatterlings" who left the solar system around the year 3000 and have been travelling ever since, apart from reunions where they get to exchange memories. The book deals with the aftermath of an attempt to wipe out the shatterlings, and the reasons behind that massacre. It's a somewhat looser and more fantastical book than the others. There's a lot of unexplained furniture in it - magic spacedrives, force fields, tractor beams and stasis devices. I've always loved far-future SF ever since reading Clarke's The City and the Stars at an impressionable age. I wanted to get across something of the same feelings of vast stretches of time that I got from that book.

[Pontiac]

Ah oui, j'ai tout compris !