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The Book of Ian Watson

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575114851
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Ian Watson written by Ian Watson and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Science Fiction award winner Ian Watson graces us here with a brilliant new collection of short stories and essays. Though he dazzles the reader with his footwork in the kaleidoscope intensity of his vision, each piece is plainly the work of a master craftsman. Whether he is dealing with a future culture where whales control us ("The Culling") or taking a hilarious poke at the matter of government funding ("The President's Not for Turning"), his concepts are clear and undeniably logical. True to the highest ideal of science fiction, Watson carries present tendencies of our society to possible conclusions in "Roof Gardens under Saturn," and points a warning finger at the consequences of alienation from the environment. In an innovative style which borders on the experimental, Watson explores in "The Pharaoh and the Mademoiselle" the horrors of fascism. Ian Watson's writing stays with us. He entertains and he makes us think. If in some future and better world politicians were to take advice form writers, Watson should be one of them.

The Book of the River

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575114479
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Book of the River written by Ian Watson and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The river cuts right across the known world, from the impassable Far Precipices to the sea. The people on one bank are cut off from those on the other, for the black current has the power to stop them crossing. Only women can travel repeatedly up and down the river, but when Yaleen joins the boating guild and becomes a riverwoman, she is singled out to follow an even more extraordinary path...

The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1849014280
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories written by Ian Watson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 writers such as James Morrow, Stephen Baxter and Ken MacLeod, there are genre classics such as Kim Stanley Robinson's story of how World War II atomic bomber the Enola Gay, having crashed on a training flight, is replaced by the Lucky Strike with profoundly different consequences. Praise for the editors: 'Mr Watson wreaks havoc with what is accepted - and acceptable.' The Times 'One of Britain's consistently finest science fiction writers.' New Scientist

The Embedding

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575114525
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Embedding written by Ian Watson and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Watson's brilliant debut novel was one of the most significant publications in British SF in the 1970s. Intellectually bracing and grippingly written, it is the story of three experiments in linguistics, and is driven by a searching analysis of the nature of communication. Deep in the Brazilian jungle, an isolated tribe face eviction from their ancestral lands - and the psychedelic fungus that makes their religious language possible. In a British laboratory, a brilliant linguist conducts cutting-edge experiments - but does his search for answers come at too high a cost? And in the ultimate test of linguistics, First Contact presents a challenge unlike any humanity has faced before . . . Fiercely intelligent, energetic and challenging, The Embedding immediately established Watson as a writer of rare power and vision, and is now recognized as a modern classic of SF.

Evil Water: And Other Stories

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575114789
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Evil Water: And Other Stories written by Ian Watson and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 travel and man's powers of self-delusion. Alien matters of a different kind crop up in 'Windows', in which mysterious artefacts found on Mars prove to be something of a problem for their chic human owners. Evil Water is a highly inventive collection which is a delight to read.

Miracle Visitors

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575114584
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Miracle Visitors written by Ian Watson and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Deacon uses hypnosis to research altered states of consciousness. One of his subjects, Michael Peacocke, is unusually susceptible and in their first session together he recalls a Close Encounter which took place some years before. Deacon is sceptical of UFOs and dismisses Peacocke's story as an adolescent sexual fantasy. But then inexplicable things happen - the tape of the session is mysteriously erased, Deacon's dog is killed, he and Michael see a pterodactyl, Michael's girlfriend is menaced by Men in Black - and Deacon is forced to reconsider. Could UFOs be symbols projected from the collective unconscious? Are they messages from the biomatrix? Does the mind have the ability to project tulpas, objects and people which are physically real yet somehow illusory?

The Book of Being

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575114495
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Being written by Ian Watson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The megalomaniac Godmind is still planning to use all the minds in creation to make a vast 'lens', and if necessary it will burn out all life in the process. Back beside the river and literally born again, Yaleen represents to the guild of riverwomen the perfect proof of salvation, of life after death. In fact, she is desperately searching for a way to save the whole universe from imminent destruction.

Hydrology

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566700870
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Hydrology written by Ian Watson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1993-10-13 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hydrology covers the fundamentals of hydrology and hydrogeology, taking an environmental slant dictated by the emphasis in recent times for the remediation of contaminated aquifers and surface-water bodies as well as a demand for new designs that impose the least negative impact on the natural environment. Major topics covered include hydrological principles, groundwater flow, groundwater contamination and clean-up, groundwater applications to civil engineering, well hydraulics, and surface water. Additional topics addressed include flood analysis, flood control, and both ground-water and surface-water applications to civil engineering design.

The Martian Inca

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575114568
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Martian Inca written by Ian Watson and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mars Probe has crashed. A triumph of Soviet technology, the first two-way interplanetary probe performed brilliantly until the final stage of its return. Then something went wrong: rather than following its programmed course to a soft landing in its country of origin, the probe crashed in the Peruvian Andes. Now a weird infection beyond the understanding of medical science has wiped out an entire village - except for one man, who, alone and undiscovered by medics, survives. He has awakened to find himself become his own ancestor, and a god. Suddenly the flames of an Indian revolution are spreading South America; he is the Martian Inca.

The Universal Machine

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642281028
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Universal Machine written by Ian Watson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The computer unlike other inventions is universal; you can use a computer for many tasks: writing, composing music, designing buildings, creating movies, inhabiting virtual worlds, communicating... This popular science history isn't just about technology but introduces the pioneers: Babbage, Turing, Apple's Wozniak and Jobs, Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Zuckerberg. This story is about people and the changes computers have caused. In the future ubiquitous computing, AI, quantum and molecular computing could even make us immortal. The computer has been a radical invention. In less than a single human life computers are transforming economies and societies like no human invention before.

Oracle

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575114738
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Oracle written by Ian Watson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Tom Ryan stops his car late at night on a dark road for a man dressed as a Roman centurion, his first thought is that he's picked up one of those amateur re-enactors but the man, Marcus Appius Silvanus appears to speak only Latin. He insists the year is AD60 and that the British Queen is Boudicca - and that he and his men of the Fourteenth Gemina are in hot pursuit of her. Tom and his sister Mary shelter the Roman, but inadvertently attract the attention of an unscrupulous journalist. He's not the only one interested in the Ryans: an IRA terrorist who was once Mary's lover in Northern Ireland tracks her down to tell her the plane crash which killed her parents twenty years ago was caused by the British security services. Deep in the English countryside, those same servants of the state are busy exploiting the theories of a young prodigy to build 'Oracle', a probe that can view the past - and, they hope, the future, so that threats to national security can be stifled before they occur.

Inquisitor

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781852838355
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Inquisitor written by Ian Watson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warhammer 40,000 is the war-torn universe of the 41st millennium. This is the first book of a series in which a new threat faces embattled mankind, and Jaq Draco, Inquisitor, must keep the Darkness at bay.

Space Marine

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781852838409
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Space Marine written by Ian Watson and published by . This book was released on 1993-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warhammer 40,000 is the war-torn universe of the 41st millennium. This is the second book of a series in which a new threat faces embattled mankind, and Jaq Draco, Inquisitor, must keep the Darkness at bay.

Draco

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Games Workshop(uk)
ISBN 13 : 9780743443180
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Draco written by Ian Watson and published by Games Workshop(uk). This book was released on 2002-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watson, the author of the screen story for Stephen Speilberg's A.I., pens this first book in his Inquisition War series. In the bloody suppression of a rebellion, Inquisitor Jaq Draco discovers a bizarre entity and a secret conspiracy of inquisitors whose goals are to control every human--everywhere.

The Mammoth Book of SF Wars

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780335466
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of SF Wars written by Ian Watson and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 constant threat of all-out global thermonuclear cataclysm. So what will future wars be like? And what will start them: religion, politics, resources, refugees, or advanced weaponry itself? Watson and Whates present a gripping anthology of SF stories which explores the gamut of possible future conflicts, including such themes as nuclear war, psychological and cyberwars, enhanced soldiery, mercenaries, terrorism, intelligent robotic war machines, and war with aliens. All the stories in this collection of remarkable quality and diversity reveals humankind pressed to the limits in every conceivable way. It includes 24 stories with highlights such as: The Pyre of the New Day' - Catherine Asaro. The Rhine's World Incident' - Neal Asher. Caught in the Crossfire' - David Drake. Politics' - Elizabeth Moon. The Traitor' - David Weber. And others from: Dan Abnett, Tony Ballantyne, Fredric Brown, Algis Budrys, Simon R. Green, Joe Haldeman, John Kessel, John Lambshead, Paul McAuley, Andy Remic, Laura Resnick, Mike Resnick & Brad R. Torgersen, Fred Saberhagen, Cordwainer Smith, Allen Steele, William Tenn, Walter Jon Williams, Michael Z. Williamson, Gene Wolfe.

God's World

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575114592
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book God's World written by Ian Watson and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sudden appearance of angelic beings bearing a mystical space drive and a summons to ''God's World'' launches an international crew of scientists on a voyage to the far limits of space. There they become embroiled in an alien war that will decide the fate of all creation . . .

Yaleen

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Benbella Books
ISBN 13 : 9781932100242
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Yaleen written by Ian Watson and published by Benbella Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yaleen, the river-woman, has always been involved with -the black current, - a strip of black running along the center of the river that separates the eastern bank from the mysterious western side. No one is really sure what the black current is, but the people sense that it is alive and powerful, as it allows only women into the river and brings madness and death to men who enter more than once. Longing to experience that freedom, Yaleen drinks of the black current and joins the River Guild. But when her brother Capsi discovers a way to cross to the forbidden western side, Yaleen is caught in the middle of a battle that could end the world.