des nouvelles de Nalo Hopkinson

[jerome]

Le site locus a mis en ligne des extraîts de l'interview de Nalo Hopkinson paru dans le magazine du même nom. L'auteur de La Ronde des Esprits évoque ses deux derniers romans : The New Moon's Arms et Blackheart Man.

Voici ce qu'elle en dit :
“My first two novels and Skin Folk all had the Warner Aspect label on the spine and were clearly marketed as genre, but the last two have not (even before Warner became Hachette and dropped its Aspect imprint). In The New Moon's Arms, I wanted to write a book with a more conventional, straightforward plot. In some ways, it's also a book about a smaller dilemma: it's one person and the changes she needs to make in her life, and the larger socioeconomic stuff is backgrounded. It's different from what I usually do, so I worry how my usual readers will respond. But I'm content with the book. When I'm speaking to audiences and I say, 'This is a book in which menopause is magic,' every female in that audience goes 'Yeah!' (The damned thing needs some magic.)

“Blackheart Man is set in a Caribbean with an alternate fantastical history, if I can do that -- I'll find out if I can do that! And I'm still doing the research for the third book I owe my publisher. I think that one is going to be set in late 19th-century Toronto. I know it's going to involve cross-dressing, tightrope walking, and Zulu warriors, but other than that I don't really have a plot yet!”

source : http://www.locusmag.com/2007/Issue06_Hopkinson.html