- Legal Name: Watson, Ian
- Birthplace: North Shields, Northumberland, England, UK
- Birthdate: 20 April 1943
- Language: English
- Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Watson_%28author%29
- Webpage: http://www.ianwatson.info/
- Webpage: http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/watson_ian
- Interviews: Weird Tales Talks with Ian Watson , Upwellings from the Oracle , Ian Watson , On Saving Books, or Hard Questions: How I Learned to Stop Worrying, Love the Small Press and Write Poetry , Ian Watson , Ian Watson , Convenient Biological Delusions , Destabilizing Reality , Ian Watson Interview , Gardening Words , Interview mit Ian Watson , Ian Watson
- ISFDB Record Number: 63
- Biography: Bio:Ian Watson
- Bibliographic Comments: Author:Ian Watson
- Author Tags: honorable mention dozois years best (5) , metaphysic (2) , to read 1986 (2) , mars (1) , 1-award-winner (1) , bsfa award for best novel winner (1) , bsfa award for best novel finalist (1) , to read 1975 (1) , nanotechnology (1) , humorous (1) , best of year anthology (1) , bsfa award for best short fiction finalist (1) , obituary (1) , Terry Carr (1)
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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)
- The Black Current (1983) [SF]
- New Year's Eve at Tambimatu (1983) [SF]
- A Walk to Manhome, and Away (1984) [SF]
- The Worm's Head (1984) [SF]
-
The Books of the Black Current (1986) [O/1,2,3]
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Yaleen (2004) [O/1,2,3]
- Book of Mana
- 1 Lucky's Harvest (1993)
- 2 The Fallen Moon (1994)
- Warhammer Universe
- Warhammer 40,000
- Space Marine (1993)
- Inquisition War
- 1
Inquisitor (1990)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Draco (1990)
- 2 Harlequin (1994)
- 3 Chaos Child (1995)
- Warped Stars (1990) [SF]
- The Alien Beast Within (1990) [SF]
- The Inquisition War (2004) [O/1,2,3 +2 stories]
- 1
Inquisitor (1990)
also appeared as:
- Warhammer 40,000
- The Embedding (1973)
- The Jonah Kit (1975)
- The Martian Inca (1977)
- Alien Embassy (1977)
- Miracle Visitors (1978)
- God's World (1979)
-
Orgasmachine (1979)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Orgasmachine [English] (2010)
- The Gardens of Delight (1980)
- Under Heaven's Bridge (1981) with Michael Bishop
- Deathhunter (1981)
- Chekhov's Journey (1983)
- Converts (1984)
- Queenmagic, Kingmagic (1986)
- The Power (1987)
- The Fire Worm (1988)
-
Whores of Babylon (1988)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Whores of Babylon (revised, 2004) (2004)
- Meat (1988)
- The Flies of Memory (1990)
- Hard Questions (1996)
- Oracle (1997)
- Mockymen (2003)
- The Very Slow Time Machine (1979)
- Sunstroke and Other Stories (1982)
- The Book of Ian Watson (1985)
- Slow Birds and Other Stories (1985)
- Evil Water and Other Stories (1987)
- Salvage Rites and Other Stories (1989)
- Stalin's Teardrops and Other Stories (1991)
- The Coming of Vertumnus and Other Stories (1994)
- The Lexicographer's Love Song and Other Poems (2001)
- The Great Escape (2002)
- The Butterflies of Memory (2006)
- The Beloved of My Beloved (2009) with Roberto Quaglia
- Saving for a Sunny Day (2012)
- Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction
- Foundation - 1976 (1976) with Peter Nicholls and Christopher Priest
- Foundation - 1977 (1977) with Peter Nicholls and Colin Lester and Christopher Priest
- Foundation - 1978 (1978) with Peter Nicholls
- Foundation - 1978 (1978) with Malcolm Edwards
- Foundation - 1979 (1979) with Malcolm Edwards and David Pringle
- Foundation - 1980 (1980) with Malcolm Edwards and David Pringle
- Foundation - 1980 (1980) with John Clute and David Pringle
- Foundation - 1981 (1981) with David Pringle and John Clute
- Foundation - 1982 (1982) with David Pringle and John Clute
- Foundation - 1983 (1983) with David Pringle and John Clute
- Foundation - 1984 (1984) with David Pringle and John Clute
- Foundation - 1985 (1985) with John Clute and David Pringle
- Foundation - 1986 (1986) with David Pringle and Edward James and John Clute and Valerie Buckle
- Foundation - 1987 (1987) with Edward James and John Clute
- Foundation - 1988 (1988) with Edward James and John Clute
- Foundation - 1989 (1989) with Edward James and John Clute
- Foundation - 1990 (1990) with Edward James and Colin Greenland
- Pictures at an Exhibition (1981)
- Changes (1983) with Michael Bishop
- Afterlives (1986) with Pamela Sargent
- Nanoware Time / The Persistence of Vision (1991) with John Varley
- The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories (2010) with Ian Whates
- Shoes, Ships and Cadavers: Tales from North Londonshire (2010) with Ian Whates
- The Mammoth Book of SF Wars (2012) with Ian Whates
- The Pyramid (1975)
- Shell Shock (2004)
- Roof Garden Under Saturn (1969)
- The Flags of Africa (1970)
- The Sex Machine (1970)
- The Tarot Pack Megadeath (1970)
- Thy Blood Like Milk (1973)
- Programmed Love Story (1974)
- The Ghosts of Luna (1974)
- Sitting on a Starwood Stool (1974)
- EA 5000: Report on the Effects of a Riot Gas (1974)
- To the Pump Room with Jane (1975)
- The Pyramid (1975)
- Our Loves So Truly Meridional (1975)
- On Cooking the First Hero in Spring (1975)
- The Event Horizon (1976)
- The Girl Who Was Art (1976)
- The Roentgen Refugees (1977)
- Agoraphobia, A.D. 2000 (1977)
- The Very Slow Time Machine (1978)
- The False Braille Catalogue (1978)
- Immune Dreams (1978)
- A Time-Span to Conjure With (1978)
- The Rooms of Paradise (1978)
- My Soul Swims in a Goldfish Bowl (1978)
- The Big Buy (1980)
- Insight (1980)
- Bud (1980)
- The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080 (1980)
- A Cage for Death (1981)
- Nightmares (1981)
- A Letter from God (1981)
- Jean Sandwich, the Sponsor, and I (1981)
- The Call of the Wild: The Dog-Flea Version (1981)
- The Artistic Touch (1981)
- The Mystic Marriage of Salome (1981)
- The Milk of Knowledge (1982)
- Peace (1982)
- The Ultimate One-Word First-Contact Story (1982)
- Flame and the Healer (1982)
- The Thousand Cuts (1982)
- Returning Home (1982)
- Sunstroke (1982)
- Dome of Whispers (1983)
- In the Mirror of the Earth (1983)
-
The Day of the Wolf (1983)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Day of the Wolf (1983)
- Of Ground, and Ocean, and Sky (1983)
- Slow Birds (1983)
- The Width of the World (1983)
- Showdown on Showdown (1983)
- Alien Embassy (extract) (1983)
- Cruising (1983)
- Letters from the Monkey Alphabet (1984)
- Universe on the Turn (1984)
- Mistress of Cold (1984)
- Ghost Lecturer (1984)
- We Remember Babylon (1984)
- The Flesh of Her Hair (1984)
- The Bloomsday Revolution (1984)
- Samathiel's Summons (1984)
- The People on the Precipice (1985)
- When the Timegate Failed (1985)
- White Socks (1985)
- On the Dream Channel Panel (1985)
- When Idaho Dived (1985)
- Skin Day, and After (1985)
- The Culling (1985)
- Horrorscope (1985)
- The Love Song of Johnny Alienson (1985)
- The Pharaoh and the Mademoiselle (1985)
- The President's Not for Turning (1985)
- The Real Winston (1985)
- The Wire Around the War (1985)
- Jingling Geordie's Hole (1986)
- When Jesus Comes Down the Chimney (1986)
- The Legend of the Seven Who Found the True Egg of Lightning (1986)
- The Great Atlantic Swimming Race (1986)
- Cold Light (1986)
- Queenmagic, Pawnmagic (1986)
- Windows (1986)
- The Emir's Clock (1987)
- Jewels in an Angel's Wing (1987)
- Salvage Rites (1987)
- Evil Water (1987)
- The Moon and Michelangelo (1987)
- Hyperzoo (1987)
- The Resurrection Man (1988)
- The Case of the Glass Slipper (1988)
- Aid from a Vampire (1988)
- The Flies of Memory (1988)
- Lost Bodies (1988)
- In Her Shoes (1988)
- The Mole Field (1988)
- Joan's World (1988)
- Vile Dry Claws of the Toucan (1989)
- Nanoware Time (1989)
- Tales from Weston Willow (1989)
- From the Annals of the Onomastic Society (1990)
- Stalin's Teardrops (1990)
- The Beggars in Our Back Yard (1990)
- Surgeon General (1990)
- The Eye of the Ayatollah (1990)
- Lambert, Lambert (1990)
- The Sadim Touch (1990)
- In the Upper Cretaceous with the Summerfire Brigade (1990)
- The Human Chicken (1990)
- Happy Hour (1990)
- Gaudi's Dragon (1990)
- Nanoware Time (expanded) (1991)
- The Talk of the Town (1991)
-
The Odor of Cocktail Cigarettes (1991)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: The Odour of Cocktail Cigarettes (1991)
- Life in the Groove (1992)
- Virtually Lucid Lucy (1992)
- The Coming of Vertumnus (1992)
- Swimming with the Salmon (1992)
- Looking Down on You (1992)
- The Tale of Peg and the Brain (1992)
- King Weasel (1993)
- An Eye for An Eye (1993)
- The Bible in Blood (1994)
- Ahead! (1995)
- The Amber Room (1995)
- My Vampire Cake (1996)
- Custom-Built Girl (1996)
- Such Dedication (1996)
- The Great Escape (1996)
- Ferryman (1996)
- Early, in the Evening (1996)
- How to Be a Fictionaut: Chapter 19: Safety Check (1996)
- Tulips from Amsterdam (1996)
- The Wild Hunt (1996)
- The Tragedy of Solveig (1996)
- A Day Without Dad (1997)
- The China Cottage (1997)
- Nanunculus (1997)
- The Last Beast Out of the Box (1997)
- Dome of Whispers (revised) (1997)
- Secrets (1997)
- The Shape of Murder (1998)
- The Boy Who Lost an Hour, the Girl Who Lost Her Life (1998)
- Starry Night (1998)
- The Shortest Night (1998)
- What Actually Happened in Docklands (1998)
- Caucus Winter (1999)
- Three-Legged Dog (1999)
- The Descent (1999)
- When Thought-Mail Failed (2000)
- Hijack Holiday (2001)
- You Are Here (Or- Can Human Machines Find Happiness in Slavery?) (2001)
- One of Her Paths (2001)
- A Free Man (2002)
- Alicia (2002)
- A Speaker for the Wooden Sea (2002)
- The Black Wall of Jerusalem (2002)
- The Butterflies of Memory (2003)
- Man of Her Dreams: A Romance (2003)
- Man of Her Dreams (2003)
- Separate Lives (2003)
- Barking Mad (2003)
- An Appeal to Adolf (2004)
- Shell Shock (2004)
- Giant Dwarfs (2005)
- The Navigator's Tale (2005)
- The Navigator's Children (2005)
- Dee-Dee and the Dumpy Dancers (2005) with Mike Allen
- Lover of Statues (2005)
- Saint Louisa of the Wild Children: An Annotated Hagiography (2006)
- The Grave of My Beloved (2006) with Roberto Quaglia
- Nadia's Nectar (2006)
-
Saving For a Sunny Day, or, the Benefits of Reincarnation (2006)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Saving for a Sunny Day (2006)
- The Globe of the Genius (2006)
- The Moby Clitoris of His Beloved (2006) with Roberto Quaglia
- Bohemian Rhapsody (2007)
- Cages (2007)
- The Mass Extinction of My Beloved (2007) with Roberto Quaglia
- Beloved Vampire of the Blood Comet (2007) with Roberto Quaglia
- The Colonoscopy of My Beloved (2007) with Roberto Quaglia
- Palm Sunday (2007)
- Having the Time of His Life (2008)
- Some Fast Thinking Needed (2009)
- Long Stay (2009)
- The Beloved Time of Their Lives (2009) with Roberto Quaglia
- A Virtual Population Crisis (2009)
- Divine Diseases (2009)
- Weredog of Bucharest (2010)
- The Drained World (2010)
- The Walker in the Cemetery (2010)
- A Waterfall of Lights (2010)
- Intelligent Design 2.0 (2010)
- Forever Blowing Bubbles (2011)
- The Tale of Trurl and the Great TanGent (2011)
- How We Came Back From Mars (A Story That Cannot Be Told) (2011)
- Zombible (2011)
- The Invention of Beloved Money (2012) with Roberto Quaglia
- Nose For Such Things (2012)
- Tales From the Zombible (2012)
- A Walk of Solace with my Dead Baby (2012)
- Universe on the Run (unpublished)
- Andromeda (in chains) (1988)
- Oh Happy Franz! (1989)
- Wintermute (1990)
- Otherwhys (1998)
- Ode to My Screen Saver (1999)
- Three-Legged Dog (1999)
- The Time Traveller Instructs and Implores (1999)
- Marsupials in Our Midst (1999)
- Fossil Man (1999)
- Good Heavens, Mr. Evans (1999)
- The Quantum Stalker Woos Miss Jones (2000)
- Death by Dyslexia (2000)
- Universe Zoo (2000)
- Another Inmate in the Zoo (2000) with David C. Kopaska-Merkel
- True Love (2001)
- The Lexicographer's Love Song (2001)
- Abductee (2001)
- Ghetto Blaster (2001)
- Unreal Messages? (2001)
- Never Ever (2001)
- Surgeons of the Soul (2001)
- Schadenfreude (2001)
- The Next French Revolution (2001)
- Let There Be Darkness: An Origin Myth (2001)
- Inverted Universe (2002) with Mike Allen
- Werechihuahua (2002)
- The pleasure surgeons (2002)
- Seventh Coming (2002) with Mike Allen
- Seventy Times Seven (2003) with Mike Allen
- A Sort of Hysteresis (2003)
- Entertaining a Hope (2003)
- Exprisonment (2003)
- Memory Man (2003)
- Fones (2004)
- In Praise of Spam (2004)
- TimeFlood (2005) with Mike Allen
- Time Flood (2005) with Mike Allen
- Cobwebs in Heaven (2006)
- Zombie Bombs (2008) with Mike Allen
- Screams (2008)
- Counterfactual Photos (2011)
- Foundation Forum (Foundation #10)
- 1 Science Fiction: Form versus Content (1976) with Christopher Priest
-
Imaginary Cricket (1970)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Japan: Imaginary Cricket (1970)
- Japan (1970)
- Towards an Alien Linguistics (1975)
- The Forest as Metaphor for Mind: "The Word for World is Forest" and "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" (1976)
- Le Guin's Lathe of Heaven and the Role of Dick: The False Reality as Mediator (1976)
- W(h)ither Science Fiction? (1976)
- Letter (Science Fiction Review #20) (1977)
- untitled note (Foundation #11 and 12) (1977)
- Letter (Science Fiction Review #23) (1977)
- The Crudities of Science Fiction (1978)
- Letter (Vector 88) (1978)
- Letter (Vector 90) (1978)
- Some Sufist Insights into the Nature of Inexplicable Events (1979)
- Letter (Science Fiction Review #29) (1979)
- Dreams of Empire (1979) with Mark Adlard and John Brunner and Kenneth Bulmer and Michael Moorcock and Richard Cowper and David Langford and Frederik Pohl and Christopher Priest and Bob Shaw and Larry Niven and Andrew M. Stephenson and James White [only as by Mark Adlard and John Brunner and Ken Bulmer and M. J. Moorcock and Richard Cowper and Dave Langford and Frederik Pohl and Christopher Priest and Bob Shaw and Larry Niven and Andrew Stephenson and Ian Watson and James White ]
- Letter (Science Fiction Review #33) (1979)
- A Rhetoric of Recognition: The Science Fiction of Michael Bishop (1980)
- Letter (Science Fiction Review #36) (1980)
- Down the Mine (1981)
- UFOs, Science, and the Inexplicable (1981)
- One Finger at a Time (1981)
- The Nuke Standard (1981)
- Introduction (Pictures at an Exhibition) (1981)
- Some Cultural Notes and Pest Control (1982)
- Hype Hype Hoorah! (1982)
- Up the Pole (1982)
- Who Can Believe in the Hero(ine)? (1982)
- Letter (Science Fiction Review #43) (1982)
- Into the Arena: Hype Hype Hoorah! (1982)
- Letter (Vector 109) (1982)
- Into the Arena: Some Cultural Notes and Pest Control (1982)
- April in Paris (1983)
- Shrines and Ratholes (Part II) (1983)
- Shrines and Ratholes (Part I) (1983)
- Introduction: Fleeing from the Baboon (1983)
- The Journey to Chekhov (1983)
- Into the Arena: April in Paris (1983)
- Review of the nonfiction 20th Century English Literature: a Soviet View (1983)
- Editorial (Foundation #28) (1983)
- Reply to Letter (Foundation #28) (1983)
- An International Issue of 'Foundation' (1984)
- Editorial (Foundation 32) (1984)
- Introduction: In the Hothouse (1985)
- Preface (The Book of Ian Watson) (1985)
- Introduction (Afterlives) (1986) with Pamela Sargent
- The Author as Torturer (1987)
- The British Scene: Reviews of Short Fiction from the Mother Country (Short Form, Winter 1987) (1987)
- Note from Ian Watson (1987)
- From Pan in the Home Counties - to Pain on a Far Planet: E. M. Forster, David Lindsay, and How the Voyage to Arcturus Should End (1988)
- Short Story Contracts (1988)
- The British Scene (Short Form, Issue 3) (1989)
- The World Renews Itself: A View on the SF and Fantasy of 1987 (1989)
- Treading The Sublime: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1989)
- Response to "The New Generation Gap" (1989)
- Dancing on a Tightrope (1989)
- Introduction (Macrolife) (1990)
- Themes and Variations: A View on the SF and Fantasy of 1988 (1990)
- The Avalanche: A View on the SF and Fantasy Novels of 1989 (1991)
- Letter (Vector 163) (1991)
- Letter (Science Fiction Eye #9) (1991)
- The Bishop File (1992)
- Roots of a Writer (Dark Horizons #33, 1992) (1992)
- Negentropy Rules OK: The Refloating Of New Worlds (1993)
- Letter (Locus #393) (1993)
- Forget the Text: What About the Sub-Text? (1994)
- How I Stole the Sampo (1995)
- John Brunner 1934 - 1995 (1995)
- Read This (NYRSF, August 1996) (1996)
- The British Scene (Nebula Awards 31) (1997)
- In Memoriam: John Brunner and Roger Zelazny (1997) with Jack Dann and Jack C. Haldeman, II
- What is SFWA? (1997)
- The British Scene (Nebula Awards 32) (1998)
- An Idea Is Born (1998)
- Two Views of Stanley Kubrick, 1: _Eyes Wide Shut_: A Sort of Review (1999)
- Read This (NYRSF, February 1999) (1999)
- Science Fiction, Surrealism, and Shamanism (1999)
- Eyes Wide Shut - a Sort of Review (1999)
- Introduction (Shenanigans) (2000)
- Plumbing Stanley Kubrick (2000)
- Do Stories Tell Themselves? (2002)
- Hanging Out With Rudy (2003)
- Introduction (The Inquisition War) (2004)
- Letter (Zoo Nation 5) (2004)
- Letter (NYRSF November 2004) (2004)
- Introduction (The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne) (2005)
- Author Bios (Constellations) (2005) with Eric Brown and Paul J. McAuley and Brian W. Aldiss and Tony Ballantyne and Stephen Baxter and Roger Levy and Keith Brooke and Gwyneth Jones and James Lovegrove and Ian McDonald and Adam Roberts and Justina Robson and Colin Greenland and Alastair Reynolds [only as by Eric Brown and Paul McAuley and Brian W. Aldiss and Tony Ballantyne and Stephen Baxter and Roger Levy and Ian Watson and Keith Brooke and Gwyneth Jones and James Lovegrove and Ian McDonald and Adam Roberts and Justina Robson and Colin Greenland and Alastair Reynolds ]
- Books of the Year: 2004 (2005)
- Nonfiction of 2004 (2005)
- Story Notes (The Butterflies of Memory) (2006)
- Newcon3 Opening Address (2006)
- Foreword (The Guild of Xenolinguists) (2007)
- Dark City (2009)
- Introduction (The Gift of Joy) (2009)
- Introduction (The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories) (2010) with Ian Whates
- Letter (SF Commentary 80) (2010)
- 'A Truly Generous Chap' (2012)
- Introduction (The Mammoth Book of SF Wars) (2012) with Ian Whates
- Letter (SF Commentary 83) (2012)
- The Dispossessed (1975) by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Real-Time World (1975) by Christopher Priest
- Hellstrom's Hive (1976) by Frank Herbert
- The Forever War (1976) by Joe Haldeman
- The Deep (1977) by John Crowley
- And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees (1977) by Michael Bishop
- Cette Chere Humanite (1977) by Philippe Curval
- Stolen Faces (1977) by Michael Bishop
- Science fiction et soucoupes volantes (1978) by Bertrand Méheust
- In the Hall of the Martian Kings (1979) by John Varley
- Blind Voices (1979) by Tom Reamy
- The Fountains of Paradise (1979) by Arthur C. Clarke
- Cirque (1979) by Terry Carr
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: An Illustrated A to Z (1980) by Peter Nicholls
- Capella's Golden Eyes (1980) by Christopher Evans
- White Light (1980) by Rudy Rucker
- Lord Valentine's Castle (1981) by Robert Silverberg
- Tales of Pirx the Pilot (1981) by Stanislaw Lem
- Roderick (1981) by John Sladek
- The Affirmation (1981) by Christopher Priest
- Nebula Winners Fifteen (1981) by Frank Herbert
- Shatterday (1982) by Harlan Ellison
- Mortal Engines (1982) by Stanislaw Lem
- The Insider (1982) by Christopher Evans
- Syzygy (1982) by Frederik Pohl
- The One Tree (1982) by Stephen Donaldson
- The Unreasoning Mask (1984) by Philip José Farmer
- Gods of Riverworld (1984) by Philip José Farmer
- Heretics of Dune (1984) by Frank Herbert
- Star of Gypsies (1987) by Robert Silverberg
- Humpty Dumpty in Oakland (1987) by Philip K. Dick
- Star of Gypsies (1987) by Robert Silverberg
- Who Made Stevie Crye? (1988) by Michael Bishop
- On Stranger Tides (1989) by Tim Powers
- An Alien Light (1989) by Nancy Kress
- The Possibility of an Island (2006) by Michel Houellebecq
- Season of the Witch (2007) by Natasha Mostert
- The Amethyst Child (2008) by Sarah Singleton
- Zig Zag (2008) by José Carlos Somoza
- The Black Mirror and Other Stories: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Germany and Austria (2009) by Franz Rottensteiner
- The Thieves of Silence (2010) by Jean-Claude Dunyach
- Che Guevara on a Greyhound Bus (2006) with Marcial Souto
- An Interview with José Carlos Somoza (2009) with José Carlos Somoza
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