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Ian Watson


UK flag (b.1943)

Ian Watson's many novels have won innumerable prizes and awards, starting with the John W. Campbell Award and the French Prix Apollo for his first novel The Embedding. His latest, Mockymen, will be published by Golden Gryphon Press in 2003, and he has also written enough short fiction to fill eight collections. He lives in the heart of rural England with a cat.
 

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror
 
Series
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Black Current
   1. The Book of the River (1984)
   2. The Book of the Stars (1984)
   3. The Book of Being (1985)
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Mana
   1. Lucky's Harvest (1993)
   2. The Fallen Moon (1994)
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Waters of Destiny (with Andy West)
   1. Assassins (2013)
     aka Assassins Legacy
   2. Tongue of Knowledge (2012)
     aka Assassins' Endgame
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Novels
   The Embedding (1973)
   The Jonah Kit (1975)
   Orgasmachine (1976) (with Judy Watson)
   Alien Embassy (1977)
   The Martian Inca (1977)
   The Miracle Visitors (1978)
   God's World (1979)
   The Gardens of Delight (1980)
   Deathhunter (1981)
   Alien Encounters (1982) (with Barry B Longyear)
   Chekhov's Journey (1983)
   Converts (1984)
   Queenmagic, Kingmagic (1986)
   The Power (1987)
   The Fire Worm (1988)
   Whores of Babylon (1988)
   Meat (1988)
   The Flies of Memory (1990)
   Nanoware Time (1991)
   Hard Questions (1996)
   Oracle (1997)
   Mockymen (2000)
   Draco (2002)
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Collections
   The Very Slow Time Machine (1979)
   Sunstroke (1982)
   Slow Birds (1985)
   The Book of Ian Watson (1985)
   Evil Water (1987)
   Salvage Rites (1989)
   Stalin's Teardrops (1991)
   The Coming of Vertumnus (1994)
   The Great Escape (2002)
   The Butterflies of Memory (2005)
   Time Pieces (2006) (with others)
   The Beloved of My Beloved (2009) (with Roberto Quaglia)
   Saving for a Sunny Day (2012)
   The Best of Ian Watson (2014) (with Nick Gevers)
   Memory Man & Other Poems (poems) (2014)
   The Uncollected Ian Watson (2014)
   The 1000 Year Reich (2016)
   The Chinese Time Machine (2023)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Anthologies edited
   Pictures at an Exhibition (1981)
   Changes (1983) (with Michael Bishop)
   Afterlives (1986) (with Pamela Sargent)
   Shoes, Ships and Cadavers (2010) (with Ian Whates)
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Ian Watson recommends
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The Crow Maiden (2001)
Sarah Singleton
"A brilliant novel, powerful, sensuous, earthy, and often quite luminously magical. The story makes sense, the characters are well drawn and sympathetic (including their faults) and the pacing is about right because readers will wish to revel--descriptions have a wonderful richness and precision of language and there are many brilliant scenes."
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Blood and Grit (1990)
Simon Clark
"Cruelly brilliant and destabilizing."
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A Wreath of Stars (1976)
Bob Shaw
"An exciting, cunningly devised novel... unputdownable, magnificently implausible... one of Shaw's most entertaining novels."

Books containing stories by Ian Watson
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The Last Dangerous Visions (2024)
(Dangerous Visions, book 3)
edited by
Harlan Ellison
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Best of British Science Fiction 2023 (2024)
(Best of British Science Fiction)
edited by
Donna Scott
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To the Stars and Back (2024)
Stories in Honour of Eric Brown

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Award nominations
2007 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Butterflies of Memory
1997 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Oracle
1995 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Coming of Vertumnus: And Other Stories
1990 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Salvage Rites: And Other Stories
1988 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Evil Water: And Other Stories
1986 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Slow Birds: And Other Stories
1986 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Book of Ian Watson
1984 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Slow Birds [short story]
1983 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Slow Birds [short story]
1982 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Deathhunter
1981 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Gardens of Delight
1980 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Very Slow Time Machine
1979 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Very Slow Time Machine [short story]
1978 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Martian Inca
1975 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Embedding
1974 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : The Embedding


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