Le roman a beau être parodique, c'est vrai que ça fait un peu mal. Ceci dit Erikson rassure un peu, la couverture ne serait pas définitive :
Hey folks, Erikson here. This is the first view I’ve had of the cover. We’ll work on it (I promise). For the commenter who wants to liken this to Scalzi’s Redshirts (great fun, that novel, by the way), I assure you, it ain’t like that at all. Willful Child has been in the works for about ten years. When I first began it, I was thinking of writing an actual ST novel, but that universe proved too limiting for letting the shit fly the way I wanted it to. Instead, i came up with the homage to STOS, and this is that novel. When I envisioned the cover, I saw something out of the Fifties SF pulp style, with Captain Hadrian more akin to James Bond in his pose and expression. In other words: cheezy, but not so cheezy as to suggest anything cartoonish. I know, it’s a fine line, but I have faith in both Bantam UK and TOR.Willful Child is only the first novel in the ongoing adventures of Captain Hadrian: my follow-up’s are already outlined (The Wrath of Betty and The Search for Spark). As the titles suggest, this is serious stuff we’re dealing with here. In fact, there’s a good chance that the adventures of Captain Hadrian of the Willful Child will offend everyone, without exception.Anyway, if all goes well, we’ll pull away from any thematic or stylistic continuity with the Malazan series, and, as with The Kharkanas Trilogy, create something unique and perfectly suited to these novels. With that in mind, I’ll look in here on a regular basis and read your opinions, etc, and I trust Aidan will continue his talent for plucking advance releases of stuff like this (since, oddly enough, I’m usually the last to see it).Cheers,SE
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