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Message par jerome » lun. juin 18, 2007 8:32 am

On vous en parlait il y a quelques temps. George R.R.Martin a fait un tour sur Second Life déguisé en Tyrion.

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Voici une restranscription de l'entretient (en anglais) :
http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?showtopic=19405

Il y répète que c'est Tyrion son personnage préféré :
"GRRM: You're looking at him, kid! Yeah, it's Tyrion. It's always been Tyrion. His chapters are the ones that most often write themselves. He’s a bit of a smart-aleck, he’s very driven, he’s very tormented, all of that makes for rich stuff, and I enjoy writing the Tyrion chapters. That doesn’t necessarily mean he’s safe, but he is my favorite character in A Song of Ice and Fire."

Et il évoque aussi une éventuelle suite à Fevre Dream (Riverdream en français, paru chez Mnémos)
"GRRM: Well, I've had an idea for a Fevre Dream sequel for a decade and a half now. It's just a matter of finding the time to write it. But yes, I would definitely like to do a sequel of sorts to Fevre Dream, I mean it would be set in the same universe and it would be some of the characters would come back, but not all of the characters. So it would be a sequel of sorts, but yes, I would like to do that, and I'd like to do another Tuf Voyaging. Of course, my Wild Card books are something I've continued all the way through this, I've continued to edit, and write for the Wild Card series of anthologies. Now I don't write all of those, but I am the editor, and do considerable writing for those. We're about to re-launch those with a whole new generation of Wild Card characters. It's all part of telling stories and telling different kinds of stories, which is what I aim for."


Il a également donné une interview à WEIRD TALES
http://www.darkfantasy.org/weirdtales/2 ... ience.html

Il parle de l'après Trône de Fer...

"WT: Of course once The Song of Ice and Fire is done, the publisher could say, “This is so successful, here’s five million dollars. Write me another one.” What then?
GRRM: I do wrestle with that. I figure it remains to be seen what will happen to me after Ice and Fire, the reception the next book will get. In some ways you never know. Is your audience going to follow you when you do something different? I now have hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of readers, but are they Ice and Fire readers, or are they George R.R. Martin readers? Until I do my first new book after the series, I’m not going to know. You see examples on both sides in our field. You see someone like Stephen R. Donaldson, who can achieve huge sales with the Covenant series, but then when he moves to science fiction with the Gap series, it doesn’t sell very well. On the other hand, you see someone like Stephen King. He can do stand-alone horror novels and the Dark Tower series and they all sell equally well. So King readers are really King readers, not readers of a particular book or a particular series. But Donaldson’s readers were Covenant fans, not Donaldson fans. I don’t know. But it is certainly something that concerns me. I am not going to say that I am going to be done with Westeros forever, this world I have created, but it is certainly not the only thing I want to write. So once it is done, I certainly will attempt to do other things in science fiction or horror or even in other genres that I haven’t touched on yet, and the question remains, will my audience follow me there?
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Message par jerome » ven. sept. 14, 2007 8:14 am

George R.R Martin va superviser avec Gardner Dozois une énorme anthologie : Songs of the Dying Earth. Ce sera une antho "hommage" à Jack Vance avec l'autorisation de Vance.

Sont annoncés au sommaire : Dan Simmons, Robert Silverberg, Michael Moorcock, Tanith Lee, Elizabeth Hand, John C. Wright, Glen Cook, Jeff Vandermeer, Neil Gaiman, Tad Williams, Howard Waldrop, Michael Shea, Mike Resnick et George R.R. Martin.

Sortie prévue en 2009, chez Tor Books aux Etats-Unis.

voilà ce qu'on peut lire sur le site de George R.R.Martin* :

"GRRM, DOZOIS TO EDIT JACK VANCE ANTHOLOGY
September 13, 2007
Jack Vance has been one of my favorite writers since I first read Big Planet back in grade school. A master of both science fiction and fantasy (and mystery novels as well, as his Edgar Award will testify), multiple Hugo winner, and a SFWA Grandmaster, Vance is one of the great stylists of the field, a unique voice, wonderfully inventive. He has been a huge influence on modern fantasy, and deserves to rank with J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, and the others who shaped the genre as it exists today.
My good friend and sometime collaborator Gardner Dozois is as big a Vance fan as I am, and of course Gardner is also one of the premiere editors and anthologists in the field... so the idea of putting together an original anthology to honor Vance was a natural for both of us. I'm thrilled to be able to announce that we have just sold Songs of the Dying Earth, a tribute anthology dedicated to the genius of Jack Vance featuring brand new stories from twenty-one of today's leading fantasists, set against the sinking lands and swollen red sun of Vance's Dying Earth, a universe that ranks with Tolkien's Middle Earth and Howard's Hyborian Age among fantasy aficionados.
We've assembled an all-star lineup of contributors for the book, we think. Songs of the Dying Earth will feature original stories from Dan Simmons, Robert Silverberg, Michael Moorcock, Tanith Lee, Elizabeth Hand, John C. Wright, Glen Cook, Jeff Vandermeer, Neil Gaiman, Paula Volsky, Tad Williams, Howard Waldrop, Michael Shea, Mike Resnick, and a host of other terrific writers and hardcore Jack Vance junkies, some of whom offered us their firstborn children for the chance to be a part of this project. And yes, I plan on doing a story for the book myself (after I finish A Dance With Dragons). Jack Vance and his representatives have been so kind as to give us permission to use Jack's characters as well, so longtime fans can expect to appearances from Cugel the Clever, Chun the Unavoidable, T'sain and T'sais, and other favorites.
Tor will be publishing the trade editions in the United States, and HarperCollins Voyager in the United Kingdom. In addition, Subterranean Press will produce two special editions for the collector's market -- a deluxe illustrated hardcover of 1500 copies, and an even-more-deluxe signed, numbered, limited, illustrated, slipcased edition of 500 copies. The numbered edition will be signed by both editors, all the participating writers, and Jack Vance himself. And I'm delighted to be able to announce that both Subterranean editions will include extensive interior illustration by the award-winning artist Charles Vess. A Dutch edition is also in the works, and we expect many more foreign editions; Jack Vance has fans and readers all over the world.
A project this big can't be put together overnight, of course. Look for Songs of the Dying Earth some time in 2009. Until then, do yourself a favor and try some of Jack's own work, the originals that inspired this project. The Dying Earth is the place to start, but don't neglect Eyes of the Overworld and Cugel's Saga (all available in the collection Tales of the Dying Earth).
This one should be a lot of fun, for readers, writers, and editors alike, and we look forward to it being one of the most talked-about anthologies of 2009.
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Jérôme
'Pour la carotte, le lapin est la parfaite incarnation du Mal.' Robert Sheckley

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