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| Author | : Ian Watson |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 145 |
| Release | : 2011-09-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0575114495 |
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.
| Author | : Ian Watson |
| Publisher | : Gateway |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2011-09-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0575114851 |
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.
| Author | : Ian Watson |
| Publisher | : Gateway |
| Total Pages | : 183 |
| Release | : 2011-09-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0575114525 |
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.
| Author | : Ian Watson |
| Publisher | : Gateway |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2011-09-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0575114657 |
An ancient Power awakes. A modern evil mushrooms into apocalypse. Cocooned in a nightmare world, the village of Melfort waits, as The Power feeds on the death and destruction, fuelling its gross appetite. And the dead rise up.
| Author | : Ian Watson |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 757 |
| Release | : 2010-02-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1849014280 |
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
| Author | : Ian Watson |
| Publisher | : Gateway |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2011-09-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0575114584 |
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?
| Author | : Ian Watson |
| Publisher | : Games Workshop(uk) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780743443241 |
The final installment in the epic Inquisition War trilogy finds Jaq Draco hunted by Imperial and alien enemies across the ravaged universe, searching for the means to decipher the Eldar Book of Fate. Tempted to surrender to the powers of Darkness to find the answers, Jaq is haunted by the knowledge that, should he fail, the ultimate apocalypse awaits. Original.
| Author | : Ian Watson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 1993-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781852838409 |
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.
| Author | : Ian Watson |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 736 |
| Release | : 1993-10-13 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9781566700870 |
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.
| Author | : Ian Watson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2002-10 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781841542553 |
