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Bio: Born in England in 1943, Ian Watson graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1963 with a first class Honours degree in English Literature, followed in 1965 by a research degree in English and French 19th Century literature. After lecturing in literature at universities in Tanzania and Tokyo, and in Futures Studies (including Science Fiction) in Birmingham, England, he became a full-time writer in 1976 following the success of his first novel, The Embedding (1973) which won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and in France the Prix Apollo, and The Jonah Kit (1975) which won the British Science Fiction Association Award and the Orbit Award.

Numerous novels of SF, Fantasy, and Horror followed, and 8 story collections to date. His stories have been finalists for the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and widely anthologised. From 1990 to 1991 he worked full-time with Stanley Kubrick on story development for the movie A.I. (Artificial Intelligence), now directed by Steven Spielberg. He lives in a small rural village 60 miles north of London.


1. Short [8962 words]The Bible in Blood by Ian Watson [Horror]
2. Short [4181 words]The People on the Precipice by Ian Watson [Science Fiction]
3. Short [11305 words]Cold Light by Ian Watson [Science Fiction]
4. Long [84984 words]Hard Questions by Ian Watson [Science Fiction]
5. Short [4559 words]Salvage Rites by Ian Watson [Horror]
6. Short [16760 words]The Coming of Vertumnus by Ian Watson [Science Fiction]
7. Short [10144 words]Slow Birds by Ian Watson [Science Fiction]
8. Short [9076 words]White Socks by Ian Watson [Horror]
9. Short [5158 words]The Resurrection Man by Ian Watson [Horror]
10. Short [5885 words]The Flesh of Her Hair by Ian Watson [Horror]
  1. Short [10144 words]Slow Birds by Ian Watson [Science Fiction]
2. Short [8962 words]The Bible in Blood by Ian Watson [Horror]
3. Short [4181 words]The People on the Precipice by Ian Watson [Science Fiction]
4. Short [6406 words]The Emir's Clock by Ian Watson [Science Fiction]
5. Short [4412 words]Life in the Groove by Ian Watson [Science Fiction]
6. Short [17326 words]The Flies of Memory by Ian Watson [Science Fiction]
7. Short [11305 words]Cold Light by Ian Watson [Science Fiction]
8. Short [9076 words]White Socks by Ian Watson [Horror]
9. Short [7673 words]We Remember Babylon by Ian Watson [Science Fiction]
10. Long [84984 words]Hard Questions by Ian Watson [Science Fiction]

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1 Cold Light [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
  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. (Published: 1986) Year's Best Science Fiction Selection

Words: 11305 - Reading Time: 32-45 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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2 Hard Questions [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
  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>> (Published: 1996)

Words: 84984 - Reading Time: 242-339 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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3 The Bible in Blood [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
  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.
Category: Horror
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4 The People on the Precipice [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
  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.
Category: Science Fiction
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5 Converts [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
  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>> (Published: 1984)

Words: 60659 - Reading Time: 173-242 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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6 Life in the Groove [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
  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. (Published: 1992)

Words: 4412 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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7 Lost Bodies [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
  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. (Published: 1988) Year's Best Horror Selection

Words: 4051 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
Category: Horror
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8 Salvage Rites [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
  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.
Category: Horror
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9 Slow Birds [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
  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. (Published: 1983) Hugo Award Nominee, Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Year's Best Science Fiction Selection

Words: 10144 - Reading Time: 28-40 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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10 Stalin's Teardrops [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
  In modern Russia, a cartographer's studio creates maps with subtle distortions to hide a sinister country within a country. (Published: 1990) Best of Weird Tales Magazine

Words: 9905 - Reading Time: 28-39 min.
Category: Horror
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11 The Coming of Vertumnus [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
  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: 16760 - Reading Time: 47-67 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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12 The Emir's Clock [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
  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. (Published: 1986) Year's Best Science Fiction Selection

Words: 6406 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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13 The Eye of the Ayatollah [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
  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. (Published: 1990) Year's Best Horror Selection

Words: 3020 - Reading Time: 8-12 min.
Category: Horror
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14 The Fire Worm [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
  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>> (Published: 1988)

Words: 64067 - Reading Time: 183-256 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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15 The Flesh of Her Hair [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
  A German girl on a bizarre transpacific sea-journey from Japan receives a wig as a gift. A very special wig. (Published: 1984)

Words: 5885 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
Category: Horror
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16 The Flies of Memory [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
  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. (Published: 1988) Year's Best Science Fiction Selection

Words: 17326 - Reading Time: 49-69 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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17 The Resurrection Man [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
  A murderer has good reason to pickle his victims eyes, tongues, and noses. At least he thought so, in his twisted mind. (Published: 1988) Year's Best Horror Selection

Words: 5158 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
Category: Horror
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18 The Very Slow Time Machine [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
  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. (Published: 1978) Hugo Award Nominee

Words: 7327 - Reading Time: 20-29 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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19 We Remember Babylon [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
  Scientists experimenting in futurology rebuild the ancient city of Babylon in the Arizona Dessert. (Published: 1984) World's Best SF Selection

Words: 7673 - Reading Time: 21-30 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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20 White Socks [MultiFormat]
by Ian Watson
  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. (Published: 1985)

Words: 9076 - Reading Time: 25-36 min.
Category: Horror
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