Ian Watson: 75 books

In The Gardens of Delight Ian Watson boldly lands a starship within the hallucinatory terrain of Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Garden of Earthly Delights, a medieval masterpiece which enchants and horrifies all who see it, for the picture shows what looks to be a paradise of pleasure yet it also...

Where do the metal death gliders come from? To the glass-sailors of the five villages the slow birds that inched over the Earth at shoulder height, appearing and vanishing, were a mystery - until young Daniel climbed aboard one of the scarred Missiles and vowed to find out where it went Ian...

The second and concluding volume of Ian Watson's extraordinary epic, The Book of Mana. Kaleva is Earth's first and only interstellar colony, discovered by Lucky Sariola who was transported there by an Ukko, a mysterious asteriod-like entity that responds to stories told to it - in Lucky's case, those...

He is a financial giant but the Sponsor wants more - he wants to become a super human, to be the modern-day Adam, father to a new generation of humans with heightened DNA. He had the viral injection to change himself, the will to do it, and now all he needs is an Eve to join him on his journey. He...

Incrustados (1973): Una novela sobre cómo el lenguaje determina la percepción de la realidad y sobre la naturaleza de este, en la que las lenguas se convierten en bienes valiosos. Ian Watson se dio a conocer con el relato "Un jardín en la terraza bajo la luz de Saturno" en la revista...

Tres novelas completas, en nuevas y respetuosas traducciones, acompañadas de comentarios retrospectivos del autor, conforman el primer volumen de un ambicioso proyecto: las "watsonianas", la recopilación de la obra temprana de un autor ya clásico en una edición definitiva. Adepto...

From the author of Midnight Spookshow - 8 weird stories inspired by exploitation cinema.

Synergy - Die Science-Fiction-Literatur der 1990er Jahre. Die Synergisten stellten sich Ende der 1980er Jahre die folgenden Fragen: Wie geht es weiter nach dem Cyberpunk? War die schicke Postmoderne das Ende der Science Fiction? Hat sie sich in die virtuellen Realitäten des Cyberspace...

This second collection of Watson's short stories further demonstrates his seemingly inexhaustible imagination. In 'The Thousand Cuts' the entire human race finds its consciousness blanked out for varying periods, but life seems somehow to have gone on in the missing days, and indeed, previously intractable...

Predictably unpredictable, normally abnormal. Watson combines science fiction and fantasy into an eclectic mix that includes stories about fallen angels in Hell rebelling and mounting a breakout, about the inconvenience of keeping aging parents in your brain instead of a nursing home, about...

The regions that have survived the holocaust in Watson's new novel have largely transformed themselves from prewar violence into a peaceful utopia, without either conflict or art. In place of belief in a religious afterlife, the old and ailing accept euthanasia at Houses of Death where priestlike...

Originally published in 1983. Song has always been a natural way to record everyday experiences – an expression of celebration, commiseration, complaint and protest. This innovative book is a study of popular and working-class song combining several approaches to the subject. It is a history of...

In his fourth short-story collection, Watson again demonstrates the extraordinary scope of his imagination. The title story has ancient witchcraft meeting complacent modern suburbia in a tale of spine-chilling horror, while 'When the Timegate Failed' casts an unexpected light in the dangers of space...

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