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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.

Awards: BSFA (2010) see all

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror

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)

Chinese Time Machine
The Chinese Time Machine (2023)
New Adventures of a Chinese Time Machine (2024)

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)

Novellas and Short Stories

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

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)

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)

Omnibus editions show

Books containing stories by Ian Watson

The Last Dangerous Visions (2024)
(Dangerous Visions, book 3)
edited by
Harlan Ellison

Laughs in Space (2024)
edited by
Donna Scott

Best of British Science Fiction 2023 (2024)
(Best of British Science Fiction)
edited by
Donna Scott

More books

Awards

	2010 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction : The Beloved Time of Their Lives
	1977 BSFA Award for Best Novel : The Jonah Kit

Award nominations

	2014 Sidewise Award for Best Short-Form Alternate History (nominee) : Blair's War
	2007 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Butterflies of Memory
	2005 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : An Appeal to Adolf
	2003 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : A Speaker for the Wooden Sea
	1995 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Coming of Vertumnus: And Other Stories
	1993 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : The Coming of Vertumnus: And Other Stories
	1990 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Nanoware Time
	1990 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Salvage Rites: And Other Stories
	1989 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Flies of Memory
	1988 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Moon and Michelangelo
	1988 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Evil Water: And Other Stories
	1987 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : Jingling Geordie's Hole
	1986 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Slow Birds: And Other Stories
	1986 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Book of Ian Watson
	1986 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : The People on the Precipice
	1984 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Slow Birds [short story]
	1984 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Slow Birds [short story]
	1982 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Deathhunter
	1982 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : A Cage for Death
	1981 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Gardens of Delight
	1981 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080
	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

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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