Catherine Asaro et la science

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Catherine Asaro répond à une interview sur le web.

Elle évoque ses liens avec la science notamment :
"How helpful is your scientific background when writing your books?
Catherine Asaro : A lot. The science and research comes easily to me. And it’s fun.
Here’s an example: I came up with the idea for my novel The Quantum Rose when I was writing my Ph.D. thesis in chemical physics at Harvard. My doctoral work used coupled channel quantum scattering theory to describe molecular behavior. So the ideas of my thesis and the story wound all around each other. At the time, it seemed obvious that the characters and their actions were analogs to the mathematics and processes of coupled channel quantum scattering theory. Looking back, I’m not sure why all those analogies seemed so obvious. But I had a blast writing about it. That analogy remains one of my favorite aspects of my stories. "

Et elle parle de ses projets :
"What projects are you currently working on?
Catherine Asaro : I recently finished a music CD, titled Diamond Star, that offers readers a soundtrack for my book. Diamond Star. The CD will be released by Starflight Music in April 2009. The book tells the story of Del, a renegade prince who would rather be a rock singer than sit on the throne. His family wants him to stop, his friends want to use him, his label wants to own him, and his enemies want to kill him. Del just wants to sing—without starting an interstellar war.

To write the story, I needed lyrics to his songs, and to write those, I needed music for at least some of them. So I wrote words and a bit of music. In 2007, I sent one song to Hayim Ani, the front man for the rock band Point Valid. He “got it” right away, what I was trying to do. He had a natural feel for the idea. We started working together, and it grew into a great collaboration with his band and all these gifted musicians they brought into the studio.

Point Valid is an alternative band with Hayim on vocals and guitar, Adam Leve on drums, and Max Vidaver on guitar. Our recording engineer and co-producer, Dave Nachodsky, played bass on most of the cuts. The band wrote a lot of the music, with a few songs from me, and Hayim contributed three of his originals. It’s Point Valid’s second CD. Their first, Of Dreams and Memories, is available through CD Baby or iTunes. Songs from Diamond Star can be found at www.starflight-music.com. "