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Je me suis sentie tout à coup très seule, vulnérable. Une brise soufflait de la mer et me projetait du sable dans les yeux. Le soleil basculait vers l’horizon et il ferait bientôt froid. Au moment où les prémices de la panique montaient en moi, un homme est sorti de la maison en se frottant vivement les mains. Puis il a emprunté un sentier pavé dans ma direction. « Ravi de vous voir ici, Carrie. » Je me suis brusquement sentie idiote d’avoir envisagé que Zima ne vienne pas. « Salut », ai-je répondu, mal à l’aise. Mon hôte m’a tendu la main. Je l’ai serrée et j’ai perçu la texture légèrement plastique de sa peau artificielle. Aujourd’hui, elle était gris étain. « Allons nous asseoir sur le balcon. Le crépuscule est un beau spectacle, n’est-ce pas ? » J’ai acquiescé : « En effet. » Il s’est détourné, s’est dirigé vers la maison. Ses muscles, contractés par la marche, saillaient sous sa peau à la couleur métallique. Des éclats pareils à des écailles sur la chair de son dos tissaient comme une mosaïque de puces réfléchissantes. Il était aussi beau qu’une statue ; une panthère puissante et déliée… Alastair Reynolds Bleu Zima
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Ken Liu (http://kenliu.name) is an American author of speculative fiction. He has won the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, as well as top genre honors in Japan, Spain, and France, among other places. Ken's debut novel, The Grace of Kings, is the first volume in a silkpunk epic fantasy series, The Dandelion Dynasty, in which engineers play the role of wizards. His debut collection, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, has been published in more than a dozen languages. He also wrote the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker. He has been involved in multiple media adaptations of his work. The most recent projects include “The Message,” under development by 21 Laps and FilmNation Entertainment; “Good Hunting,” adapted as an episode of Netflix's breakout adult animated series Love, Death + Robots; and AMC's Pantheon, which Craig Silverstein will executive produce, adapted from an interconnected series of short stories by Ken. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Ken worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer, and litigation consultant. Ken frequently speaks at conferences and universities on a variety of topics, including futurism, cryptocurrency, history of technology, bookmaking, the mathematics of origami, and other subjects of his expertise. Ken is also the translator for Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, Hao Jingfang's Vagabonds, Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide, as well as the editor of Invisible Planets and Broken Stars, anthologies of contemporary Chinese science fiction. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.
I'm Al, I used to be a space scientist, and now I'm a writer, although for a time the two careers ran in parallel. I started off publishing short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone in the early 90s, then eventually branched into novels. I write about a novel a year and try to write a few short stories as well. Some of my books and stories are set in a consistent future named after Revelation Space, the first novel, but I've done a lot of other things as well and I like to keep things fresh between books. I was born in Wales, but raised in Cornwall, and then spent time in the north of England and Scotland. I moved to the Netherlands to continue my science career and stayed there for a very long time, before eventually returning to Wales. In my spare time I am a very keen runner, and I also enjoying hill-walking, birdwatching, horse-riding, guitar and model-making. I also dabble with paints now and then. I met my wife in the Netherlands through a mutual interest in climbing and we married back in Wales. We live surrounded by hills, woods and wildlife, and not too much excitement.
