Ian Watson (1) (1943–)
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British science fiction author Ian Watson was born in 1943. He received a first class Honors degree in English Literature in 1963 and a research degree in English and French 19th Century literature in 1965 from Balliol College, Oxford. After lecturing in literature and Futures Studies, he became a visa mer full-time author in 1976. His first novel, The Embedding, won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and the French Prix Apollo. His novel The Jonah Kit won the British Science Fiction Association Award and the Orbit Award. He worked with Stanley Kubrick on story development for the movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence from 1990 to 1991. His poem True Love won the 2002 Rhysling Award from the Science Fiction Poetry Association. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Serier
Verk av Ian Watson
The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne 7 exemplar
Lost Bodies [short fiction] 5 exemplar
Blair's War 4 exemplar
The Traveling Raven Problem 4 exemplar
Ahead! 4 exemplar
A nose for such things [short story] 3 exemplar
The walker in the cemetary 3 exemplar
Weredog of Bucharest 3 exemplar
Palm Sunday [short story] 3 exemplar
Some Fast Thinking Needed 3 exemplar
Long Stay 3 exemplar
Bohemian Rhapsody [short story] 3 exemplar
A waterfall of lights 3 exemplar
Tales from the Zombible 3 exemplar
Cages [short story] 3 exemplar
Breakfast in Bed 2 exemplar
The Wild Pig's Collar 2 exemplar
Dee-Dee and the Dumpy Dancers 2 exemplar
Red Squirrel 2 exemplar
The Name of the Lavender 2 exemplar
In Golden Armour 2 exemplar
The 1000 Year Reich - short story 2 exemplar
Faith without teeth [short fiction] 2 exemplar
The Tale of Trurl and the Great TanGent 2 exemplar
Forever Blowing Bubbles 2 exemplar
An Inspector Calls 2 exemplar
Me and My Flying Saucer 2 exemplar
The Arc de Triomphe Code 2 exemplar
Spanish Fly 2 exemplar
One of Her Paths 2 exemplar
We Remember Babylon 2 exemplar
Early, in the Evening 2 exemplar
The Thousand Cuts 2 exemplar
Caucus Winter 1 exemplar
Alicia 1 exemplar
Alef - Science fiction magazin broj 17 1 exemplar
An eye for an eye [short fiction] 1 exemplar
The Moby Clitoris Of His Beloved 1 exemplar
"Aid from a Vampire" (in SF EYE v.1, #3) 1 exemplar
Nanoware Time [short story] 1 exemplar
Separate Lives 1 exemplar
The Navigator's Children 1 exemplar
The China Cottage 1 exemplar
Such dedication 1 exemplar
A Speaker for the Wooden Sea 1 exemplar
Timeflood {poem} 1 exemplar
Insight 1 exemplar
Dome of Whispers 1 exemplar
Returning Home 1 exemplar
Brave New World By Oscar Wilde 1 exemplar
Lover of Statues 1 exemplar
The Ghosts Of Luna (New Worlds 7) 1 exemplar
The Shape of Murder 1 exemplar
The Wild Hunt 1 exemplar
The Amber Room 1 exemplar
The Last Beast Out of the Box 1 exemplar
Bud [short story] 1 exemplar
The Artistic Touch 1 exemplar
Intelligent Design 2.0 1 exemplar
Jean Sandwich The Sponsor And I 1 exemplar
Jingling Geordie's Hole [short fiction] 1 exemplar
A Virtual Population Crisis 1 exemplar
Jewels in an Angel's Wing {short story} 1 exemplar
Nadia's Nectar [short story] 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Nebula Awards 31: SFWA's Choices For The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year (Nebula Awards Showcase) (No… (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 92 exemplar
Nebula Awards 32: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 90 exemplar
Decalog 5: Wonders: Ten Stories, A Billon Years, An Infinite Universe (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 68 exemplar
Nebula Awards 24: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1988 (1988) — Bidragsgivare — 58 exemplar
2001: An Odyssey in Words: Celebrating the Centenary of Arthur C. Clarke's Birth (2018) — Bidragsgivare — 53 exemplar
The Best Horror Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1988) — Bidragsgivare — 46 exemplar
Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 36 exemplar
Celebration: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 34 exemplar
Pulsar: An Original Anthology of Science Fiction and Science Futures: No. 1 (1978) — Bidragsgivare — 25 exemplar
The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. II (1990) — Bidragsgivare — 17 exemplar
The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives on the H. G. Wells Classic (2005) — Bidragsgivare — 17 exemplar
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 3 [March 1986] (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 16 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1981, Vol. 61, No. 4 (1981) — Bidragsgivare — 16 exemplar
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 12 [December 1986] (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1985, Vol. 68, No. 2 (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
Stories of Hope and Wonder: In Support of the UK's Healthcare Workers (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 11 exemplar
Fires of the Past: Thirteen Contemporary Fantasies About Hometowns (1991) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1983, Vol. 64, No. 6 (1983) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
Nature Futures 2: Science Fiction from the Leading Science Journal (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1985, Vol. 69, No. 1 (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1981, Vol. 60, No. 4 (1981) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
Johann Sebastian Bach Memorial Barbecue. Internationale Science Fiction Erzählungen. (1990) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Andra namn
- Watson, Jan
- Födelsedag
- 1943-04-20
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Födelseort
- North Shields, Northumberland, England, UK
- Bostadsorter
- Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Tanzania
Tokyo, Japan
Gijón, Spain - Utbildning
- Oxford University (Balliol College)
- Yrken
- Lecturer in English Literature
science fiction writer - Organisationer
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1981)
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
Ian Watson? i Science Fiction Fans (februari 2013)
Recensioner
Listor
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SF Masterworks (1)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 214
- Även av
- 143
- Medlemmar
- 5,042
- Popularitet
- #4,960
- Betyg
- 3.4
- Recensioner
- 139
- ISBN
- 363
- Språk
- 17
- Favoritmärkt
- 6
It's a collection of short stories, the first several of which are linked, with common characters and background, exploring a series of time machine excursions into the past from a relatively near-future Britain.
Early on, it felt to me like a smashing together of Harry Harrison's The Technicolout Time Machine with Connie Willis' To Say Nothing of the Dog. Later on, add some seasoning from Barry Hughart's Bridge of Birds. You'll know when.
The author clearly has a love of language and the sound of language. A lot of this book would sound very good read aloud and absorbed in that way. It's very punnish in places.
The second half of the book, the non-Chinese time machine stories, didn't work as well for me. Some good ideas, but the style was becoming too intrusive to my ears by then. The Shakespearean pastiche story in particular I could not cope with.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.… (mer)