Make-Up with China Miéville on World-Building

[marie.m]

Après Michael Moorcock, c'est au tour de China Miéville de répondre pour SF Signal à la question Who do you consider master world-builders, and what did you learn from them?

Extrait :

Worlds are too big to build, or to know, or even, almost, to live in. A world is going to be compelling at least as much by what it doesn't say as what it does. Nothing is more drably undermining of the awe at hugeness that living in a world should provoke than the dutiful ticking off of features on a map. 'World-Building', at its worst and most compulsive inexorably means the banalising of an imaginary totality. How fucking depressing is that?

Pour lire la suite de sa réponse, c'est sur le site d'SF Signal.