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Ian Watson

(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, , Mystery

Series

Urban Nucleus (with Michael Bishop)
3. Under Heaven's Bridge (1980)

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

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

Waters of Destiny (with Andy West)
   1. Assassins (2013)
     aka Assassins Legacy
   2. Tongue of Knowledge (2012)
     aka Assassins' Endgame

Space Time Pantomime
1. The Brain From Beyond (2016)
2. The Trouble with Tall Ones (2019)

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)

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)

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)

Novellas and Short Stories

The Monster, The Mermaid, And Doctor Mengele (2021)

Omnibus editions

Nanoware Time / The Persistence of Vision (1991) (with John Varley)

Series contributed to

Warhammer
   Inquisitor (1992)
   Harlequin (1994)
   Chaos Child (1995)

Warhammer 40,000
Space Marine (1993)

The Mammoth Book of ...
The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories (2010) (with Ian Whates)
The Mammoth Book of SF Wars (2012) (with Ian Whates)

Paul Di Filippo Presents
Giant Dwarfs (2021)

Black Cat Weekly
31. Black Cat Weekly #31 (2022) (with others)

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 Road to Science Fiction 4 (1982)
Universe 13 (1983)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 13 (1984)
The Nebula Awards 19 (1984)
Universe 16 (1986)
Afterlives (1986)
Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year 15 (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 (1992)
The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
Tales in Space (1995)
Tombs (1995)
The Best of Weird Tales (1995)
Dante's Disciples (1996)
Cybersex (1996)
Fantasy Stories (1996)
Space Stories (1996)
Destination Unknown (1996)
The Best of Interzone (1996)
New Worlds (1997)
Cyber-Killers (1997)
The Road to Science Fiction 5 (1998)
The Unexplained (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House 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 [short story] (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 [short story] (1983)		Hugo (nominee) Nebula Awards (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 [short story] (1990)
	The Odor of Cocktail Cigarettes (1991)
	Virtually Lucid Lucy (1992)
	Ahead! (1995)
	The Amber Room (1995)
	Custom-Built Girl (1996)
	The Great Escape [short story] (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 Awards Best Novel nominee (1976) : The Embedding
	Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1979) : The Very Slow Time Machine [short story]
	Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1984) : Slow Birds [short story]
	Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1984) : Slow Birds [short story]
	British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (1997) : Oracle

Ian Watson recommends

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."

Blood and Grit (1990)
Simon Clark
"Cruelly brilliant and destabilizing."

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

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