Sean's 12-month record challenge
By Will Parry
Creative talent Sean Wright has experienced it all, from managing a Swedish girl rock band to writing six children's novels - but it's his current project of recording an album a month for a year which he's finding the most challenging.
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INFINITY PLUS INTERVIEW
NG: Most of your work appears in series: specifically Jesse Jameson in the "Alpha to Omega" series, but even standalones like The Twisted Root of Jaarfindor (which itself hints at a sequel) and Dark Tales of Time and Space include references to your other work. What do you think it is that leads you to weave things together on a bigger canvas in this way?
SW: Jaarfindor is a world in my head. It transverses time and space, it's inter-dimensional. Existing both in time and out of time, depending up your locale and the character type, and existing in both the familiar world (although history and details may have been re-written) and alien landscapes that I hope border the weird territory of M. John Harrison's most imaginative pieces or Mervyn Peake's Gormengast. Like Hal Duncan's Vellum or Michael Moorcock's Multiverse it's limitless in its possibilities from an imaginative and alternate history point of view. But it's also self-contained, self-contained by my mindscape. In Wicked Or What? -- my new book published at the end of October 2005 -- I explore more of Jaarfindor and more of the myths and legends built up around Elriad and Finnigull. All of these realms or dimensions exist in both linear time and outside of it in a Multiverse that re-write alternate histories for us as humans, as well as slipstreaming notions of time as memory. There is after all only now, isn't there? The future has yet to happen, and the past is written. I am very taken with the points in time where history and myth merge -- blurring borders of recorded events. As a writer I like to play around with time, memory, mind, what is real or imagined, so-called mental illness, perceptions into other worlds of possibility, altered states of consciousness, paranoid delusions. A lot of mind-related issues that have become something of a taboo, but which many choose to discard, or dismiss, or under-value. Society has become very insular in one sense since the surge of inter-action with the internet. Many human relationships have broken down because the internet holds an alternative...
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SEAN WRIGHT TALKS WITH PAUL JESSUP
Paul Jessup: Jaarfindor seems to be a complicated fractal world that is always changing and never constant. Do you find this kind of world harder to design than say, a normal fantasy world (ala AD&D and Tolkien)?
Sean Wright: Jaarfindor is in a state of change at the metaphorical and literal levels. I see this aspect as a vital foundation of my work. I think it comes from two main sources outside of myself. One, the displacement of entire communities here in Europe is forever in the news. Folk on the move, leaving behind their ruined lives and ruined cities and towns and villages. They seek a new life, a better future for themselves and many arrive in Britain illegally. Read more...
