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Ian Watson

(1943 - )

About Ian Watson

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.

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories

Series

Urban Nucleus (with Michael Bishop)
3. Under Heaven's Bridge (1981)

Black Current
1. The Book of the River (1984)
2. The Book of the Stars (1984)
3. The Book of Being (1985)
The Book of the Black Current (omnibus) (1986)
Yaleen (omnibus) (2004)

Mana
1. Lucky's Harvest (1993)
2. The Fallen Moon (1994)

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)
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)

Collections

Series contributed to

Warhammer
Inquisitor (1990)
Harlequin (1994)
Chaos Child: Inquisition War, book 3 (1995)
The Inquisition War (omnibus) (2004)

Warhammer 40,000
Space Marine (1993)

Anthologies edited

Pictures at an Exhibition (1981)
Changes (1983) (with Michael Bishop)
Afterlives (1986) (with Pamela Sargent)
The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories (2010) (with Ian Whates)

Anthologies containing stories by Ian Watson

New Worlds 7 (1974)
New Writings in SF 25 (1975)
New Writings in SF 30 (1977)
Anticipations (1978)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 8 (1979)
After the Fall (1980)
UniverseX 11 (1981)
The Nebula Awards 19 (1983)
Universe 13 (1983)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 13 (1984)
Afterlives (1986)
Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year 15 (1986)
Universe 16 (1986)
Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 16 (1987)
Gaslight and Ghosts (1988)
The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (1989)
aka Demons and Dreams
Best New Horror (1990)
Inside the Funhouse: 17 SF Stories About SF (1992)
The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
The Best of Weird Tales (1995)
Tales in Space (1995)
Tombs (1995)
Cybersex (1996)
Dante's Disciples (1996)
Destination Unknown (1996)
Fantasy Stories (1996)
Space Stories (1996)
The Best of Interzone (1997)
Cyber-Killers (1997)
New Worlds (1997)
The Road to Science Fiction 4: From Here to Forever (1997)
The Road to Science Fiction 5: The British Way (1998)
The Unexplained: Stories of the Paranormal (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000)
New English Library Book of Internet Stories (2000)

Short stories

	The Wild Hunt (1966)
	The Blood Like Milk (1973)
	The Ghosts of Luna (1974)
	Our Love So Truly Meridional (1974)
	Programmed Love Story (1974)
	Sitting on a Starwood Stool (1974)
	To the Pump Room with Jane (1975)
	The Event Horizon (1976)
	The Girl Who Was Art (1976)
	Agoraphobia, A.D.2000 (1977)
	On Cooking the First Hero in Spring (1977)
	The Roentgen Refugees (1977)
	Immune Dreams (1978)
	My Soul Swims in a Goldfish Bowl (1978)
	The Rooms of Paradise (1978)
	A Time-Span to Conjure with (1978)
	The Very Slow Time Machine (1978)		Hugo (nominee)
	Bud (1980)
	The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080 (1980)
	Jean Sandwich, the Sponsor, and I (1981)
	The Mystic Marriage of Salome (1981)
	Cruising (1983)
	In the Mirror of the Earth (1983)
	Slow Birds (1983)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo (nominee)
	The Width of the World (1983)
	The Bloomsday Revolution (1984)
	The Flesh of Her Hair (1984)
	Ghost Lecturer (1984)
	Mistress of Cold (1984)
	Universe on the Turn (1984)
	The Legend of the Seven Who Found the True Egg of Lightning (1985)
	The People on the Precipice (1985)
	White Socks (1985)
	Cold Light (1986)
	The Great Atlantic Swimming Race (1986)
	When Jesus Comes Down the Chimney (1986)
	Jewels in an Angel's Wing (1987)
	The Case of the Glass Slipper (1988)
	In Her Shoes (1988)
	Lost Bodies (1988)
	The Eye of the Ayatollah (1990)
	Happy Hour (1990)
	Lambert Lambert (1990)
	Stalin's Teardrops (1990)
	The Odor of Cocktail Cigarettes (1991)
	Virtually Lucid Lucy (1992)
	Ahead! (1995)
	The Amber Room (1995)
	Custom-Built Girl (1996)
	The Great Escape (1996)
	Tulips from Amsterdam (1996)
	The China Cottage (1997)
	A Day Without Dad (1997)
	When Thought-mail Failed (2000)

Awards

	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (1974) : The Embedding
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1976) : The Embedding
	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1979) : The Very Slow Time Machine
	Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1984) : Slow Birds
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1984) : Slow Birds
	British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (1997) : Oracle

Links to other websites

Ian Watson's homepage

Ian Watson recommends

A Wreath of Stars (1976)
Bob Shaw
"An exciting, cunningly devised novel... unputdownable, magnificently implausible... one of Shaw's most entertaining novels."

The Crow Maiden (2000)
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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