(2009-11-06) Wuming Interview

Interesting interview with a member of Wu Ming, a group of 4 (used-to-be 5) that write books together (and apart). Q: All your novels to date have been Historical Novel-s. What is the significance of history in your work? WM1: I would say that what we like the most is World Building. We write a Novel to re-create an era, a sphere of past everyday life, a network of lost signs and half-forgotten deeds and conflicts whose consequences keep shaping our very lives. History lets us build a world, and in that world we can play with alternate history fiction, we can criticise the misery of this world from unexpected directions, we can construct allegories of our present. However, I have to correct you. The novels that have been translated into English are all historical novels, but we also wrote science-fiction. In fact, SF (SciFi) is my favourite genre.

Argh, they'll be doing a Live Event in NYC Nov23. Actually they're doing multiple events Nov18-23.