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Sci Fi Focus > Encyclopedia > Ian Watson
Ian Watson (1943-) is a British science fiction author. Apart from his solo work, Waston worked on the storyline to the movie *A. I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE*, and has written a series of novels around the *WARHAMMER 40,000* games.
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Ian Watson
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By Ian Watson
Robinson
Released: 2012-05-17
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War is becoming increasingly 'SF-ized' with remotely controlled attack drones and robot warriors already in development and being tested.
Over the past 100 years the technology of war has advanced enormously in destructive power, yet also in sophistication so that we no longer seem to live under the constant threat of all-out global thermonuclear cataclysm.
So what will future wars be like? And what will start them: religion, politics, resources, refugees, or advanced weaponry itself? Watson and Whates present a gripping anthology of SF stories which explores the gamut of possible future conflicts, including such themes as nuclear war, psychological and cyberwars, enhanced soldiery, mercenaries, terrorism, intelligent robotic war machines, and war with aliens. |
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By Ian Watson
Gollancz
Released: 2011-09-29
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Ian Watson is one of the finest writers of SF and fantasy stories, and Butterflies of Memory is his 10th collection, a selection of stories that are by turns serious and playful, and always wildly imaginative... In the title story, what if mobile phones were to become truly mobile, flying about like butterflies? 'An Appeal to Adolf' tells of gay sailors on a Nazi battleship many kilometres long during a Second World War unfamiliar to us; 'Lover of Statues' of an enigmatic alien visiting the only statue of Satan in the world, in Madrid - while in the bubbling stew of faiths which is Jerusalem a doorway opens to reveal capricious godlike beings. And just suppose that Jules Verne undertook an actual journey to the centre of the Earth. Closer to home, in a Midlands town, a man who seems to have suddenly popped into existence tries to discover who and what he is. 'Hijack Holiday', written a year before 9/11, presciently if bizarrely anticipates events akin to those on that fateful day. |
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Running Press
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Every short story in this wonderfully varied collection has in common some diversion in history, some alternate reality from what we know, resulting in a very different world. In addition to original stories specially commissioned from bestselling writers such as James Morrow, Stephen Baxter, and Ken MacLeod, there are genre classics from Kim Stanley Robinson, Harry Turtledove, and George Zebrowski: over 20 stories in all. |
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By Ian Watson
Games Workshop
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By Neil Gaiman, Charles Stross, Eric Brown, Ian Whates & Liz Williams
NewCon Press
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A volume of all original stories written as homage to Arthur C. Clarke’s 'Tales from the White Hart', featuring many of today’s top genre writers, including Neil Gaiman, Charles Stross, Stephen Baxter, James Lovegrove, Liz Williams, Adam Roberts, Eric Brown, Ian Watson, Peter Crowther, and David Langford.
The Fountain, a traditional London pub situated in Holborn, just off Chancery Lane, where Michael, the landlord, serves excellent real ales and dodgy ploughman’s, ably assisted by barmaids Sally and Bogna.
The Fountain, in whose Paradise bar a group of friends – scientists, writers and genre fans – meet regularly on a Tuesday night to swap anecdotes, reveal wondrous events from their past, tell tall tales, talk of classified invention and, maybe, just maybe, save the world…
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By Ian Alfred Charnock
Breese Books Ltd
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By John Watson
Adamant Media Corporation
Released: 2005-09-21
Paperback (378 pages)
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1895 edition by Dodd, Mead & Company, New York. |
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By Ian Watson, Walter Jon Williams, Christopher Rowe, Carolyn Ives Gilman & Robert Reed
Wildside Press
Released: 2010-11-30
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The 2007 edition of the annual Year's Best Science Fiction series features modern classics from famous and new authors. Included in this mammoth 126,000-word volume are:
"Another Word for Map is Faith" by Christopher Rowe.
"Okanoggan Falls" by Carolyn Ives Gilman.
"Saving for a Sunny Day" by Ian Watson.
"The Cartesian Theater" by Robert Charles Wilson.
"Hesperia and Glory" by Ann Leckie.
"Incarnation Day" by Walter Jon Williams.
"Exit Before Saving" by Ruth Nestvold.
"Inclination" by William Shunn.
"Life on the Preservation" by Jack Skillingstead.
"Me-Topia" by Adam Roberts.
"The House Beyond Your Sky" by Benjamin Rosenbaum.
"A Billion Eves" by Robert Reed. |
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By Ian Watson
Tor Books
Mass Market Paperback (192 pages)
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By Ian Watson
Mark V Ziesing
Hardcover (366 pages)
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British Science Fiction award winner Ian Watson graces us here with a brilliant new collection of short stories and essays. Though he dazzles the reader with his footwork in the kaleidoscope intensity of his vision, each piece is plainly the work of a master craftsman. Whether he is dealing with a future culture where whales control us ("The Culling") or taking a hilarious poke at the matter of government funding ("The President's Not for Turning"), his concepts are clear and undeniably logical. True to the highest ideal of science fiction, Watson carries present tendencies of our society to possible conclusions in "Roof Gardens under Saturn," and points a warning finger at the consequences of alienation from the environment. In an innovative style which borders on the experimental, Watson explores in "The Pharaoh and the Mademoiselle" the horrors of fascism. Ian Watson's writing stays with us. He entertains and he makes us think. If in some future and better world politicians were to take advice form writers, Watson should be one of them. |
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