Une interview d'Elizabeth Bear

[jerome]

Elizabeth Bear revient dans une interview sur ses derniers romans, notamment une préquelle de son cycle : Promethean Age.

"Genreville: Where did the idea of doing prequels to the other Promethean Age novels come from, and what attracted you to that idea?

Elizabeth Bear: Well, they're not so much prequels precisely as connected but independent books. The idea of the series is that each book or pair of books in it--while they share cosmology and continuity and may contain some of the same characters--will stand alone. I have plans to write other books in this setting, scattered all over the world and throughout the last six hundred years. Some of them will be historical and some will be contemporary.

The reason I'm attracted to the idea is that it allows me to exploit the richness of worldbuilding in a long series without being limited to a single set of characters or a single plot arc. Because I am so interested in character development--in changing people drastically--it's hard for me to write indefinitely about the same people. After a while, there's only so much more you can do with them."

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