https://doi.org/10.31261/SSP.2022.20.01
The aim of this interview is to familiarize readers with Jan Maszczyszyn, a writer of Polish origin living in Australia, and with his flagship work, Solar Trilogy. The first part of the interview concerns his experiences as reader and author, and also contains a brief description of steampunk, which is his literary mode of choice. This part of the interview is also about retrofuturism, associated with nostalgic and melancholic ways of thinking about the nineteenth century. The second part of the interview is devoted to Solar Trilogy and some of its motifs. Here Maszczyszyn talks about the sources on which he drew in the creation of the fictional universe of the Trilogy as well as the method of creating it. He also talks about the scientific theories that inspired the creation of that universe and about the scientific interpretations of the world related to it.
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Vol. 20 No. 2 (2022)
Published: 2023-01-20
English
Język Polski