Interview: EDGE Boston

Another interview with yours truly, this one by EDGE Boston's Kilian Melloy, who also happens to be the editor of wigglefish.com. It's always good talking with Kilian; we had a very interesting conversation back when Edenborn was published, and you can find that interview on SF Site.

Here's an excerpt from the new one:

EDGE: Hal also starts out as something of a video game enthusiast, a form of media you have had experience with in your professional life.

Nick Sagan: I love games, both as a gamer and a writer - I particularly love being able to have an influence over a game world in an immediate and satisfying way. Sometimes in life, and especially as a teenager, there’s a feeling of powerlessness about the real world. Hal’s a teenager in the first book, and he’s pretty much how I was when I was first trying to ask the big questions about the universe. I remember my teenage years feeling, for one thing, apocalyptic, because you don’t really know what’s happening as the death of the child in you and the birth of the man in you forces you to juggle those two worlds.

You can read the complete interview here.

Comments

[Ângelo Fernandes]

About games, have you ever played Lucas Arts's THE DIG? What's your opinion on that?

I know it's considered by many a big flaw by Lucas Arts, but to me it made very entusiastic afternoons playing it with my friends.

It was the time when Full Throttle, Day of The Tentacle, Monkey Island [I'm a BIG monkey island serie fan] also made my pc push to the limits, but the aesthetical scenarios and the "argument" of THE DIG to me were engouh, a diferent approach despite all bad critics around it.

I got a big revival moment last year when I found on a flea market THE DIG only for 7€. Very nice. That day I was to buy also the UBIK videogame, but I was without more money to spent. I never played it, but if it is 25% like the book, the game is assured.

ângelo

[Nick Sagan]

Sadly, I've never played The Dig. I remember hearing mixed things about it, but it sounded interesting, and the pairing of Steven Spielberg and Orson Scott Card struck me as well worth checking out.

I didn't realize there was a Ubik game. That could be a fun setting--I wonder how they adapted it.

[Ângelo Fernandes]

you still can get The Dig from the Amazon or others like it, of course today it's very old, but still it's great to play.

The Ubik it was a coincidence, I never about it until I saw on the flea market.

ângelo