Interview with Mike Resnick (2012); english
Mike Resnick is the author of way too many books to mention (for an overview take a peak at his homepage). Here in Germany we recently had the pleasure to experience the adventures of Mallory, one of his heroes, which are being published by Bastei Lübbe. (Photo: Copyright Hugette) Thank you for taking the time for this interview. How did you come up with this crazy world in which Mallory finds himself? Back in the mid-1980s, there were so many not-very-good fantasy novels on the stands that someone, I think it may have been Bob Silverberg, came up with a pejorative term for them: “elf-and-unicorn trilogies”. And when I decided, after maybe 15 science fiction novels in a row, that it was time to write a fantasy, I thought it would be interesting to write one that had an elf and a unicorn and wasn’t like any of those truly dreadful and totally generic elf-and-unicorn books. I set it in New York simply because more readers are familiar with the landmarks of Manhattan than any other American city, so they would be quick to see the changes on familiar settings that I use during the series to show that this isn’t quite the Manhattan you know – the Vampire State Building instead of the Empire State Building; Greenwitch Village rather than Greenwich Village; Madison Round Garden instead of Madison Square Garden; and so on. The mystery case is very complex. How did you manage not to loose focus? […]