Ian Watson: 75 books

"Nothing so appalling in the annals of horror!"They were the directors who didn't care what appeared on screen, who were interested only in nickles and dimes and viewed film-making as just another hustle. They shot laughably inept pictures in their backyards that were released with a great deal...

Sick of Big Budget Hollywood Horse$£@t?Tired of all those prequels to remakes of adaptations brought to you by the producers of a remake of a sequel?Of course you are! The $250m features playing the multiplex are so rarely great fun that anyone seeking a night at the movies had better learn to appreciate...

Ian Watson's latest collection shows the same range and apparently inexhaustible fund of ideas that have characterized all his previous books. No other contemporary figure in SF is so prolific or inventive a writer of short stories. In the title story we immediately encounter a phantasmagoric vision...

"The Ultimate In Alien Terror!"Recommended for anyone who prefers Ed Wood to Michael Bay, Movies That Witness Madness is an ongoing series dedicated to the trashy, schlocky, stupid joys of late-night creature features. Part II, "Strange Invaders", features reviews of Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster,...

"Remember, Boo Boo, we have one weakness." "What's that, Ratpfink?" "Bullets!" Bad action movies may be the guiltiest of pleasures , but they're also a ton of fun. Whether you're watching Rutger Hauer fight a rubber-suited monster or Chuck Norris thwarting a Communist...

"The dead will rise..."Greetings zombie fans! Want flesh-eating fiends, gratuitous gore and showering starlets? How about crazy camerawork and diabolical dubbing? In Part 7 of our ongoing series, "Spaghetti Flesh Eaters", you'll get the lowdown on those incomparable Italian filmmakers who gave...

He calls himself "Ol' Painless." He likes bad action movies, Italian zombie flicks and chasing locker room starlets. He's "kind of a dick." And now you can read his thoughts on Uwe Boll, Jean-Claude Van Damme and that mad scientist movie with exploding hookers...

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...

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...

Every short story in this wonderfully varied collection has one thing in common: each features some alteration in history, some divergence from historical reality, which results in a world very different from the one we know today. As well as original stories specially commissioned from bestselling...

They were illicit, outrageous, obscene. They were the films that were supposed to deprave and corrupt the minds of those who watched them. They were the Video Nasties....and everything you've heard is true.

Incluye la novela corta ganadora de los premios Hugo y Locus 2011 y el relato ganador de los premios Hugo, Nebula y World Fantasy 2012 Ocho autores internacionales demuestran que la ciencia ficción no ha perdido su garra ni su capacidad especulativa, y que es la narrativa que más y mejor trata de...

Eugenio Barba is one of Europe's leading theatre directors, at the forefront of experimental and group theatre for more than twenty years. Ian Watson provides the most comprehensive and systematic study of Barba's work, including his training methods, dramaturgy, productions and theories, as well as his work at the International School of Theatre Anthropology.

"Not just one of them sequels..."You heard the soundtrack, played the videogame and bought the soft drink, then you had to ruin everything by watching the movie. Sucks to see a beloved screen character behaving in stupid and inappropriate ways but it double sucks to see it happen again and again....