Ian Watson Bibliography

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#1
Short Stories
1966
The Wild Hunt
1969
Roof Garden Under Saturn
1970
The Flags of Africa
1970
The Sex Machine
1970
The Tarot Pack Megadeath
1973
The Ghosts of Luna
1974
Sitting on a Starwood Stool
1974
Programmed Love Story
1974
Supernova
1974
EA 5000: Report on the Effects of a Riot Gas
1975
Our Loves So Truly Meridional
1975
On Cooking the First Hero in Spring
1975
To the Pump Room with Jane
1975
The Pyramid
1976
The Girl Who Was Art
1977
Agoraphobia, A.D. 2000
1977
The Roentgen Refugees
1978
Immune Dreams
1978
My Soul Swims in a Goldfish Bowl
1978
A Time-Span to Conjure With
1978
The False Braille Catalogue
1978
The Rooms of Paradise
1980
Bud
1980
Insight
1980
The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080
1980
The Big Buy
1981
Nightmares
1981
Jean Sandwich, the Sponsor, and I
1981
A Letter from God
1981
The Call of the Wild: The Dog-Flea Version
1981
The Artistic Touch
1981
The Mystic Marriage
1981
A Cage for Death
1982
Returning Home
1982
Peace
1982
Flame and the Healer
1982
Sunstroke
1982
The Thousand Cuts
1982
The Ultimate One-Word First-Contact Story
1983
The Width of the World
1983
In the Mirror of the Earth
1983
Cruising
1983
Showdown on Showdown
1983
Dome of Whispers
1983
The Day of the Wolf
1983
Of Ground, and Ocean, and Sky
1984
Ghost Lecturer
1984
Mistress of Cold
1984
Universe on the Turn
1984
The Flesh of Her Hair
1984
The Bloomsday Revolution
1984
Letters from the Monkey Alphabet
1984
Samathiel's Summons
1985
The Love Song of Johnny Alienson
1985
Horrorscope
1985
The President's Not for Turning
1985
The Real Winston
1985
The Culling
1985
The Wire Around the War
1985
When Idaho Dived
1985
On the Dream Channel Panel
1985
The People on the Precipice
1985
Skin Day, and After
1986
The Great Atlantic Swimming Race
1986
The Legend of the Seven Who Found the True Egg of Lightning
1986
When Jesus Comes Down the Chimney
1987
Salvage Rites
1987
Jewels in an Angel's Wing
1987
Hyperzoo
1987
The Emir's Clock
1988
The Mole Field
1988
Lost Bodies
1988
Aid from a Vampire
1988
The Resurrection Man
1988
Joan's World
1988
In Her Shoes
1988
The Case of the Glass Slipper
1988
La Fin de Bon-Bon
1989
Tales from Weston Willow
1989
Song of the Bacteria
1989
Vile Dry Claws of the Toucan
1990
Stalin's Teardrops
1990
From the Annals of the Onomastic Society
1990
Lambert, Lambert
1990
The Eye of the Ayatollah
1990
Surgeon General
1990
The Sadim Touch
1991
The Talk of the Town
1991
The Odour of Cocktail Cigarettes
1992
Swimming with the Salmon
1992
Looking Down on You
1992
The Tale of Peg and the Brain
1992
Life in the Groove
1992
Virtually Lucid Lucy
1993
An Eye for an Eye
1995
Ahead!
1996
The Great Escape
1996
Early, in the Evening
1996
Such Dedication
1996
Tulips from Amsterdam
1996
Ferryman
1996
My Vampire Cake
1996
How to Be a Fictionaut: Chapter 19: Safety Check
1996
Custom-Built Girl
1997
Nanunculus
1997
The China Cottage
1997
The Last Beast Out of the Box
1998
The Shape of Murder
1998
What Actually Happened in Docklands
1998
The Boy Who Lost an Hour, the Girl Who Lost Her Life
1998
Starry Night
1999
Caucus Winter
1999
When Thought-Mail Fails
1999
The Descent
2001
Hijack Holiday
2001
You Are Here (Or- Can Human Machines Find Happiness in Slavery?)
2002
Alicia
2003
Separate Lives
2003
Man of Her Dreams: A Romance
2003
Barking Mad
2003
The Butterflies of Memory
2004
An Appeal to Adolf
2004
Shell Shock
2005
The Navigator's Tale
2005
Lover of Statues
2005
Dee-Dee and the Dumpy Dancers
2005
The Navigator's Children
2006
The Grave of My Beloved
2006
The Globe of the Genius
2006
Nadia's Nectar
2006
Saving for a Sunny Day, or, the Benefits of Reincarnation
2006
The Moby Clitoris of His Beloved
2006
Saint Louisa of the Wild Children: An Annotated Hagiography
2007
Palm Sunday
2007
Beloved Vampire of the Blood Comet
2007
The Mass Extinction of My Beloved
2007
The Colonoscopy of My Beloved
2008
A Daffodil Jacket, or The Misadventures of Sebastian in Kyiv
2008
Having the Time of His Life
2009
Some Fast Thinking Needed
2009
Long Stay
2009
The Penis of My Beloved
2009
The Beloved of the Gigolem
2009
The CVD of the Beloveds: A Romance of Computers
2009
The Compost of My Beloved
2009
The Beloved Time of Their Lives
2009
My Beloved Cascamorras
2009
The Illustrated Tumour of My Beloved (Part Two)
2009
How the Elephant Escaped Extinction
2009
Divine Diseases
2009
A Virtual Population Crisis
2010
Weredog of Bucharest
2010
A Waterfall of Lights
2010
A Walk of Solace with My Dead Baby
2010
The Drained World
2010
Intelligent Design 2.0
2011
Forever Blowing Bubbles
2011
The Tale of Trurl and the Great TanGent
2011
How We Came Back from Mars (A Story That Cannot Be Told)
2011
The Ultimate Freak
2011
Zombible
2012
Nose for Such Things
2012
Tales from the Zombible
2013
Blair's War
2013
The Travelling Raven Problem
2014
The 1000 Year Reich
2014
Red Squirrel
2014
Me and My Flying Saucers
2014
Faith Without Teeth
2014
An Inspector Calls
2015
Breakfast in Bed
2015
Undervoidable
2016
In Golden Armour
2016
The Wild Pig's Collar
2016
Beloved Pig-Brother of the Daughter of the Pregnant Baby: A Transgenic Story of Genius
2016
The Arc de Triomphe Code
2016
Spanish Fly
2016
Himmler in the Barcelona Hallucination Cell
2017
Monkey Business
2017
Journey to the Anomaly
2017
The God Election
2018
When the Aliens Stop to Bottle
2018
Would-Be A.I., Tell Us a Tale! #241 Sell 'em Back in Time! by Hali Hallison
2019
Subject: Clickbeetle
2020
Brave New World by Oscar Wilde
2021
The Birth of Venus
2022
Hot Gates
2022
The Kidnap of Fibonacci
2022
How We Came Back from Mars
2023
Skipping
2024
Masterchef on Mars
#2
Essays
1970
Imaginary Cricket
1970
Japan
1974
SF Idea Capsules for Art Students
1975
Le Guin's Lathe of Heaven and the Role of Dick: The False Reality as Mediator
1975
The Forest as Metaphor for Mind
1975
Towards an Alien Linguistic
1976
A Few Much-Needed Inventions
1976
W(h)ither Science Fiction?
1978
The Crudities of Science Fiction
1979
Some Sufist Insights into the Nature of Inexplicable Events
1979
Barry Bayley
1980
This House Believes That Characterization Is Not Necessary for Good Science Fiction
1980
A Rhetoric of Recognition: The Science Fiction of Michael Bishop
1981
Down the Mine
1981
One Finger at a Time
1981
UFOs, Science, and the Inexplicable
1981
The Nuke Standard
1982
Some Cultural Notes and Pest Control
1982
Up the Pole
1982
An Open Letter to Chuck Connor
1982
Who Can Believe in the Hero(ine)?
1982
Believing SF
1982
Hype Hype Hoorah!
1983
Money for Authors from Library Loans
1983
The Journey to Chekhov
1983
April in Paris
1984
Money for Authors from Library Loans: The Moment of Truth
1984
An International Issue of 'Foundation'
1987
Note from Ian Watson
1987
The Author as Torturer
1987
Breakthrough
1987
The Masters of the Golden Ball
1987
A Lot of Fog
1988
From Pan in the Home Counties - to Pain on a Far Planet: E.M. Forster, David Lindsay, and How the Voyage to Arcturus Should End?
1988
Short Story Contracts
1989
The World Renews Itself: A View on the SF and Fantasy of 1987
1989
Treading the Sublime: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire
1989
Response to 'The New Generation Gap'
1989
Dancing on a Tightrope
1990
Themes and Variations: A View on the SF and Fantasy of 1988
1991
The Avalanche: A View on the SF and Fantasy of 1989
1992
How I Was Shot by Adolf Hitler
1992
The Bishop File
1993
Negentropy Rules OK: The Refloating of New Worlds
1995
How I Stole the Sampo
1995
John Brunner 1934-1995
1997
What Is SWFA?
1997
Eyes as Big as Saucers
1997
In Memoriam: John Brunner and Roger Zelazny
1998
An Idea Is Born
1999
The Jew of Linz
1999
Science Fiction, Surrealism, and Shamanism
1999
Two Views of Stanley Kubrick, 1: Eyes Wide Shut: A Sort of Review
2000
Are We Real?
2000
Plumbing Stanley Kubrick
2002
Do Stories Tell Themselves?
2002
John Brunner
2003
The Aims of Artificial Intelligence
2003
The Matrix as Simulacrum
2003
Hanging Out with Rudy
2004
H.G. Wells in Timişoara
2005
Of Warfare and The War of the Worlds
2006
Stephen King's Thinner: An Attack on America
2006
The Wicker Man
2009
Dark City
2009
Three Kinds of Close Encounters with Comics
2010
 
2012
A Truly Generous Chap
2014
The Biggest SF Bookshop in Europe
2014
Eyes Wide Shut
2020
Where Would Our Eternal Roman Empire Be Without Coffee?
 
 
#3
Novels
1973
The Embedding
1975
The Jonah Kit
1977
The Martian Inca
1977
Alien Embassy
1978
Miracle Visitors
1979
Orgasmachine
1979
God's World
1980
The Gardens of Delight
1981
Deathhunter
1981
Under Heaven's Bridge
1983
Chekhov's Journey
1984
Converts
1984
The Book of the River
1984
The Book of the Stars
1985
The Book of Being
1986
Queenmagic, Kingmagic
1987
The Power
1988
Whores of Babylon
1988
The Fire Worm
1988
Meat
1990
The Flies of Memory
1990
Inquisitor
1993
Lucky's Harvest
1993
Space Marine
1994
The Fallen Moon
1994
Harlequin
1995
Chaos Child
1996
Hard Questions
1997
Oracle
2003
Mockymen
2012
Assassins
2012
Tongue of Knowledge
2012
Death Overflows
2019
Assassins' Legacy
2019
Assassins' Endgame
2024
New Adventures of a Chinese Time Machine
#4
Novelettes
1973
Thy Blood Like Milk
1976
The Event Horizon
1978
The Very Slow Time Machine
1982
The Milk of Knowledge
1983
Slow Birds
1983
The Black Current
1983
New Year's Eve at Tambimatu
1984
A Walk to Manhome, and Away
1984
The Worm's Head
1984
We Remember Babylon
1985
White Socks
1985
When the Timegate Failed
1986
Cold Light
1986
Windows
1986
Jingling Geordie's Hole
1986
Queenmagic, Pawnmagic
1987
Evil Water
1987
The Moon and Michelangelo
1990
Gaudi's Dragon
1990
In the Upper Cretaceous with the Summerfire Brigade
1990
The Beggars in Our Back Yard
1990
The Human Chicken
1990
Happy Hour
1990
The Alien Beast Within
1993
King Weasel
1994
The Bible in Blood
1995
The Amber Room
1996
The Tragedy of Solveig
1997
A Day Without Dad
1998
The Shortest Night
1999
Three-Legged Dog
2000
Foxtrot
2002
The Black Well of Jerusalem
2002
A Free Man
2005
Giant Dwarfs
2007
Cages
2007
Bohemian Rhapsody
2007
In Storage
2010
The Walker in the Cemetery
2012
The Invention of Beloved Money
2014
The Name of the Lavender
2014
Scars
 
 
#5
Short Story Collections
1979
The Very Slow Time Machine
1982
Sunstroke and Other Stories
1985
Slow Birds and Other Stories
1987
Evil Water and Other Stories
1989
Salvage Rites and Other Stories
1991
Stalin's Teardrops and Other Stories
1994
The Coming of Vertumnus and Other Stories
2002
The Great Escape
2006
The Butterflies of Memory
2012
Saving for a Sunny Day
2014
Squirrel, Reich & Lavender: Bonus Stories
2014
The Best of Ian Watson
2016
The 1000 Year Reich
2023
The Chinese Time Machine
 
 
#6
Writings Collections
1985
The Book of Ian Watson
2014
The Uncollected Ian Watson
2014
Doing the Stanley: Encounters with Kubrick
 
 
#7
Novellas
1985
The Pharaoh and the Mademoiselle
1988
The Flies of Memory
1989
Nanoware Time
1990
Warped Stars
1992
The Coming of Vertumnus
1997
Secrets
2001
One of Her Paths
2002
A Speaker for the Wooden Sea
2016
The Brain from Beyond: A Spacetime Opera
2019
The Trouble with Tall Ones
2021
The Monster, the Mermaid, and Doctor Mengele
 
 
#8
Poems
1988
Andromeda (in chains)
1989
Root Canal Therapy
1990
Wintermute
1998
Otherwhys
1998
Oh Happy Franz!
1999
Marsupials in Our Midst: The Explorer of Mirabella Rehearses His Tale
1999
Ode to My Screen Saver
1999
Fossil Man
1999
The Time Traveller Instructs and Implores
1999
Good Heavens, Mr. Evans
2000
The Quantum Stalker Woos Miss Jones
2000
Death by Dyslexia
2000
Universe Zoo
2000
Another Inmate in the Zoo
2001
The Lexicographer's Love Song
2001
True Love
2001
Never Ever
2001
Surgeons of the Soul
2001
Ghetto Blaster
2001
Abductee
2001
The Next French Revolution
2001
Let There Be Darkness: An Origin Myth
2001
Schadenfreude
2001
Unreal Messages?
2002
Inverted Universe
2002
Werechihuahua
2002
The Pleasure Surgeons
2002
Seventh Coming
2003
A Sort of Hysteresis
2003
Entertaining a Hope
2003
Seventy Times Seven
2003
Exprisonment
2003
Memory Man
2004
Fones
2004
In Praise of Spam
2004
Propitiating Cthulhu
2005
TimeFlood
2006
Cobwebs in Heaven
2008
Zombie Bombs
2008
Katagenesis
2008
Screams
2011
Counterfactual Photos
2013
Catalogue Note by the Artist
 
 
#9
Poetry Collections
2001
The Lexicographer's Love Song and Other Poems
2014
Memory Man & Other Poems
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