The Book Of Ian Watson

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575114852

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The Book of Ian Watson by Ian Watson Pdf

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
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575114470

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The Book of the River by Ian Watson Pdf

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...

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 185283840X

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Space Marine by Ian Watson Pdf

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 : Gateway
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575114524

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The Embedding by Ian Watson Pdf

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 : Hachette UK
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575114494

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The Book of Being by Ian Watson Pdf

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 : Hachette UK
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575114784

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Evil Water: And Other Stories by Ian Watson Pdf

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.

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575114586

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Miracle Visitors by Ian Watson Pdf

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 : David Lindsay
Publisher : Sheba Blake Publishing Corp.
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781222379044

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A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay Pdf

If you're interested in science fiction but crave something with a little more intellectual heft than your typical space opera, give David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus a try. Widely praised by critics as one of the most philosophically advanced science fiction novels, the book follows two intrepid spiritual seekers through a series of remarkable interstellar adventures. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the amazing works of long dead and truly talented authors.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848637497

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Best of Ian Watson by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1841542555

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Harlequin by Ian Watson Pdf

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993-10-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 1566700876

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Hydrology by Ian Watson Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1852838353

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Inquisitor by Ian Watson Pdf

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.

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01
Category : Science fiction, English
ISBN : 1844167674

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The Inquisition War by Ian Watson Pdf

Forty thousand years into the future, the human Imperium struggles for survival against its relentless enemies. Ruthless Inquisitor Jaq Draco uncovers a plot that threatens the very future of mankind - can he unravel the trail of conspiracy before he himself is destroyed by its deadly clutches?

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575114548

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Orgasmachine by Ian Watson Pdf

The Three Laws of Feministics: 1. Your body is not your own; it belongs to another. Therefore you may not damage it nor, through inaction, allow it to be damaged. 2. You must obey all orders given you by your owner (or in cases of loss of ownership, by any man) even if such orders conflict with the First Law. 3. You may not injure any man, nor through failure to comply with the Second Law, cause him displeasure or mental injury. Women as chattels, as customised sexslaves; bodies freakishly modified to their owners' dictates, personalities preset to order. Welcome to the world of the Orgasmachine. But Jade and Mari escape their masters and dream of revenge, of revolution, of freedom.

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575114616

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Deathhunter by Ian Watson Pdf

The regions that have survived the holocaust in Watson's new novel have largely transformed themselves from prewar violence into a peaceful utopia, without either conflict or art. In place of belief in a religious afterlife, the old and ailing accept euthanasia at Houses of Death where priestlike guides counsel them. One of these guides is Jim Todhunter, who pursues research into the nature of death despite official censure. When he is assigned to guide that rarity in the new world - a murderer - he finds a natural ally in the obsessive Nathan Weinberger, himself an ex-guide. As usual with Watson, the initial impression of a green and pleasant land is revealed to be only one facet of a more complex and disturbing reality.