The Next Big Thing

[la_marquise_de_]

I've been tagged to do this at least 3 times -- by Kat Richardson over on Google+, by Jaine Fenn on Facebook and by kateelliott here. And I've procrastinated, because I'm not really sure what to write about. However....

1) What is the working title of your next book?
Death and the Madwoman
2) Where did the idea come from for the book?
It's the sequel to The

Comments

[mevennen]

It's a stunner! Go and read it!

[la_marquise_de_]

Thank you. It's kind of a mess right now, but I think I can get it in shape.

[athenais]

Now I will always picture Liyan as Yuen Biao!

[la_marquise_de_]

:-)

[puddleshark]

Hurrah for fantasy with socialism! And hurrah for the further adventures of Jehan and Aude!

[la_marquise_de_]

Thank you.

[la_marquise_de_]

I find it very frustrating that so far the closest thing to a Mumbai-Hong-Kong co-production is Chandni Chowk to China, which is stereotyping and predictable (and stars the wooden Akshay Kumar), and the small and rather pointless role played by Malika Sherawat in Jackie Chan's The Myth. I want a film directed by Tsui Hark or Fok Yiu Leung, and starring Yuen Biao, Jackie Shroff, Aamir Khan, Michael Tse Tin-Wah, Vidya Balan, Fan Bingbing, Dimple Kapadia and Carina Lau Kar-Ling. With sword fights choreographed by YB and his 'brother' Yuen Wah (who also gets to be in the film), and music by A. R. Rahman. And scripted by Louis Cha (Jin Yong) and Vikram Chandra.
(Even if I win the lottery, I won't get this. YB won't work with Tsui Hark -- they fell out over Once Upon A Time in China, Aamir Khan famously drives everyone he works with crazy with his perfectionism -- and YB does too but in a different way, Michael Tse is tied up tightly in his TVB contract, Fan Bingbing is concentrating on her singing and charity work and Chandra is a

[la_marquise_de_]

Well, famously I will happily watch YB paint a white wall white (he does this in his films Those Merry Souls...
I will start thinking of which films to bring. So many good ones to choose from!

[much_of_a]

Oh good - I would like to know what happens next (I don't *need* to, but would like to).

And it occurs to me that doing socialist fantasy puts you in the small-but-select company of SF/fantasy writes who do politics as an integral part of the story (I ignore polemics of US libertarianism with a story loosely wrapped around them, although there's at least one of those in my comfort books list). Specifically, I'm thinking of China Miéville and Ken MacLeod. All three of you doing interestingly different things.

[la_marquise_de_]

Goodness, that's prestigious company: thank you!