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The Bible in Blood [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
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A concentration camp commander forces rabbis to write out the Bible in their own blood, resulting in the release of horrors from another dimension.
Words: 8962 - Reading Time: 25-35 min.
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The Coming of Vertumnus [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
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To undermine militant Green campaigners, a billionaire spaceflight enthusiast hires an art historian to authenticate erotic forgeries of paintings by Archimboldo, and she is kidnapped and designer-drugged by conspirators who hope to re-establish the Habsburg Empire in Europe. Year's Best Science Fiction Selection, British Science Fiction Award Nominee
Words: 17048 - Reading Time: 48-68 min.
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Salvage Rites [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
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A trip to the town garbage dump reveals that more than just garbage is being recycled. Year's Best Horror Selection
Words: 4559 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
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The People on the Precipice [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
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A strange tribe of aliens who migrate perpetually across the great cliff that is their universe suddenly find that a great wall of stone approaches their world. Year's Best Science Fiction Selection, British Science Fiction Award Nominee, Interzone Poll Award Winner
Words: 4181 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
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Lost Bodies [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
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Two couples about to swap partners for the night discover a decapitated fox's head in the garden. Trouble is--it seems to still be alive. 1988 Year's Best Horror Selection
Words: 4051 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
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The Emir's Clock [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
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A remarkable clock flashes a message of seemingly divine origin to a young Arab, charging him with the task of creating a new race of intelligent machines. 1986 Year's Best Science Fiction Selection
Words: 6406 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
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The Eye of the Ayatollah [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
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A religious fanatic who snatched out Ayatollah Khomeini's eye at his funeral uses it to discover where Salman Rushdie is hiding from Khomeini's fatwa. 1990 Year's Best Horror Selection
Words: 3020 - Reading Time: 8-12 min.
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The Flesh of Her Hair [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
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A German girl on a bizarre transpacific sea-journey from Japan receives a wig as a gift. A very special wig. 1984
Words: 5885 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
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The Resurrection Man [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
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A murderer has good reason to pickle his victims eyes, tongues, and noses. At least he thought so, in his twisted mind. 1988 Year's Best Horror Selection
Words: 5158 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
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White Socks [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
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It was a simple trip to a game reserve in East Africa. But the leopard man had his own plans: plans to steal something very precious from an English woman. 1985
Words: 9076 - Reading Time: 25-36 min.
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Slow Birds [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
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Cruise missiles of a future war pass very slowly across an alternate Earth to escape detection, usually vanishing again but sometimes exploding, to the consternation of the inhabitants. 1983 Hugo Award Nominee, Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Year's Best Science Fiction Selection
Words: 10144 - Reading Time: 28-40 min.
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We Remember Babylon [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
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Scientists experimenting in futurology rebuild the ancient city of Babylon in the Arizona Dessert. 1984 World's Best SF Selection
Words: 7673 - Reading Time: 21-30 min.
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The Very Slow Time Machine [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
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A crystal-shaped capsule mysteriously appears at the National Physical Laboratory, and the jabbering old man trapped inside is obviously insane ... and moving backward through time. 1978 Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 7327 - Reading Time: 20-29 min.
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Stalin's Teardrops [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
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In modern Russia, a cartographer's studio creates maps with subtle distortions to hide a sinister country within a country. 1990 Best of Weird Tales Magazine
Words: 9905 - Reading Time: 28-39 min.
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Cold Light [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
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An Anglican Bishop with a crisis of faith is slowly going blind. He turns to an old friend hoping his unorthodox homeopathic remedies may provide a solution--but the doctor finds reason to suspect the light being stolen from his friend's eyes is not of earthly origin. 1986 Year's Best Science Fiction Selection
Words: 11305 - Reading Time: 32-45 min.
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The Flies of Memory [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
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Body-language expert Charles Spark is recruited to evaluate the alien Flies that have landed on Earth. Communication with the Flies is difficult to interpret because of their rudimentary language skills, and the United Nations is worried about what the Flies really mean when they say they are here to 'Remember' Earth. 1988 Year's Best Science Fiction Selection
Words: 17326 - Reading Time: 49-69 min.
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The Fire Worm [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
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John Cunningham is a psychiatrist specializing in past-life therapy. Jack Cannon is his alter ego, a horror novelist who has kept his identity a secret from both his patients and the public. John has been able to keep his identities separate until he discovers his most fascinating patient. Now, drawing on the past life of Tony Smith, John has written a story that creates the ultimate in terror, in which a little boy gives birth to a worm as the result of a sexual exploit. Peter Nicholls calls TH... more info>> 1988
Words: 64067 - Reading Time: 183-256 min.
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Converts [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
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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 thinks he's found the perfect match in Jean Sandra Norwich, a woman convinced she is trapped between the genes of her mother and daughter. The Sponsor offers her freedom and so much more, the chance to ... more info>> 1984
Words: 60659 - Reading Time: 173-242 min.
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Hard Questions [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
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Meet Qua, the quantum computer with immense power capabilities that tunes into pathways in parallel universes to operate at lightning speed. But with such power comes the threat of catastrophe, and as government agents, cult disciples, and computer criminals learn what this computer is capable of, Cambridge researcher Clare Conway makes every attempt to safeguard herself and society from the realities she discovers about Qua. For all of the power this computer offers, it threatens to spark a civ... more info>> 1996
Words: 84984 - Reading Time: 242-339 min.
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Life in the Groove [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
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What if the world is a juke-box? What happens when the record plays? This is perhaps the ultimate disc-world story, though not set on Terry Pratchett's Discworld. 1992
Words: 4412 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
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