Des nouvelles de Karl Schroeder

[jerome]

Karl Schroeder a évoqué ses deux derniers romans, Queen of Candesce et Sun of Suns.

Voici ce qu'il en dit :

With Sun of Suns I wanted to take the reader on a tour of a wholly new kind of science fictional world, a place that has infinite possibilities for story and adventure," Schroeder said in an interview. "[That place], Virga, is literally a world of vistas: endless, gravity-free skies full of floating cities lit by man-made suns and great deserts of air where anything can happen."

In Sun of Suns the world flashes by so quickly that there was very little chance to settle in and explore any one part of it, Schroeder said. "So, with Queen of Candesce, I wanted to pause for breath, so to speak, and show that any one spot in Virga's skies can supply all the wonder and drama needed for its own novel," he said.

At the end of Sun of Suns, the ruthless, scheming Venera Fanning has been cast adrift in the weightless airs of Virga, Schroeder said. "She literally falls out of the sky in the very first chapter of Queen of Candesce, finding herself stranded in the ancient country of Spyre," he said. "Spyre is even more eccentric than Venera, and she has to use all the wits and guile she developed growing up in the court of the paranoid king of Hale to survive. Of course, she does, and more: She thrives."

But there are dark forces lurking in the backwards principalities of Spyre, Schroeder said. "They soon learn that Venera is carrying on her person the most dangerous of Virga's ancient artifacts, the fabled key to Candesce," he said. "Whoever owns the key to Candesce can control the sun of suns itself and therefore the world. The question is, which is worse for Virga: to have the key stolen by the agents of a totalitarian state or to have it continue to be the plaything of unscrupulous, vengeful Venera Fanning?"

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