Une interview de Scott Westerfeld

[jerome]

Scott Westerfeld vient de signer Leviathan, un roman jeunesse plutôt steampunk.

Il est en interview ici.

Petit extrait :
"Can you give us a quick description of Leviathan?
Scott Westerfeld : It’s an alternate history of World War I, sent in a world in which Charles Darwin discovered DNA fifty years earlier. The Victorian Empire was built on the backs of fabricated species, while the Germanic peoples went the route of mechanics. So the war is between retro biotech (living airships, message lizards) and clunky armored vehicles. The main characters are the son of the Archduke Ferdinand who’s on the run from the men who killed his parents (in this world, the conspiracy theories are true—the Germans did it!) and a Scottish girl who’s pretending to be a boy so she can serve on a military airship."