Navym a écrit :Intéressant comme concept ^^A noter aussi que l'actualité autour de K.J. Parker est plutôt chargée cette année.Cela avait commencé l'an dernier, avec Academic Exercises. Ce recueil regroupait 11 nouvelles (toujours dans le monde de l'invincible Sun, mais à des époques différentes) et 2 essais, tous déjà publiés dans divers volumes du magazine Subterranean Online.Et là cette année, toujours chez Subterranean Online, va sortir Savages.Il y a aussi une nouvelle à paraître chez Tor, intitulée The Last Witness.Après, chez Orbit il y a quelques mois ça parlait de ça :

The first in a epic trilogy from the acclaimed author of Sharps. K.J. Parker's new series is a perfectly executed tale of intrigue and deception that will leave you breathless. THE INVINCIBLE SUN tells the story of an empire. With an extraordinary cast of characters, from soldier and generals to politics and princes, THE INVINCIBLE SUN will appeal to a broad range of fantasy readers and is destined to become a landmark work in the genre.

Alors je ne sais pas si il s'agit du même projet que ce mystérieux The Two of Swords, lui aussi chez Orbit. D'autant plus que dans une précédente interview elle avait dit :

Parker: Savages was no harder (and no easier) than anything else I’ve written; the hiatus came about because I’m embarking on a new project (for Orbit) which is several orders of magnitude more ambitious (and scary and nerve-wracking) than anything I’ve attempted before, and I had to have more than one go at the first part of it before it was fit to see daylight. Savages sort of emerged out of that process, but it’s a stand-alone; probably the last one I’ll be doing for a while.

EDIT : oui, j'fais de la pub pour K.J. Parker, mais elle le mérite, surtout pour ses nouvelles et one-shots

Navym a écrit :Et là cette année, toujours chez Subterranean Online, va sortir Savages.

So; there’s a world war between exhausted but grimly determined enemies; there’s a big cast of extremely diverse characters—but instead of each character or group having separate storylines, with the narrative darting backwards and forwards between them (and I don’t trust myself to do that without getting hopelessly tangled), I’ve gone for something a bit more like watching a Grand Prix motor race; from where each character is standing, he or she can only see a bit of the action as it goes past, while the reader gets to see the whole picture, but filtered through the widest possible spectrum of viewpoints; because great events affect different people in different ways, and a general’s version of the First World War (for example) would be vastly different from that of a soldier in the trenches, a war widow, or the farmer on whose land a battle takes place.Lately I’ve had a lot of fun writing novellas, and I guess Two of Swords is a series of linked novellas. It’s a form that favours getting right down deep inside the characters’ heads, while leaving just the right amount of scope for world-building and the level of description you need in order to kid the reader into thinking this imaginary world is sort of real. What I’m aiming for is a kind of relay-race, with the narrative baton passing on at the end of each episode.

Navym a écrit :EDIT : MDR, il a même été jusqu'à s'auto-interviewer (il y a un léger spoil concernant la trilogie Loredan, et qui pourrait gâcher le suspens concernant un certain passage... !)

A siege is approaching, and the City has little time left to prepare. The people have no food and no weapons, and the enemy has sworn to slaughter them all.

Their only chance rests with a colonel of engineers - a despised outsider, a genius, a master of military and political strategy with the wrong color skin. He is the City's only hope.

But nobody, rich or poor, wants to take orders from a jumped-up Milkface. Saving the City from itself might be more difficult than surviving the coming siege.