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The Uncollected Ian Watson

Ian Watson

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Description:Here are powerful stories which have never been collected before, such as ‘Jingling Geordie's Hole’, voted both the best and the worst story of the year by readers of Interzone magazine (sometimes by the same readers!), the kernel of Watson's novel The Fire Worm. Likewise, the short story which birthed his novel Deathhunter. And there's a stand-alone story related to the masterful Mockymen, never published before now. The mischievous 'Divine Diseases', which appeared in the science journal Nature, brought protests to that august publication; a similar satirical brio informs ‘The Real Winston’, a clever alternative take on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.Besides stories, gathered here are many entertaining and often profound pieces of non-fiction, yielding deep insights into the author's creative works. In 'The Author as Torturer' he asks a question even more urgent today than when first voiced 20 years ago. Here are Watson's inspired impersonations of H.G. Wells (even if the period clothing doesn't show in print). Aptly, the Times Literary Supplement commented àpropos Watson's fiction: 'A phenomenon, a national resource to be conserved, Ian Watson resembles H.G. Wells in both invention and impatience.' Well, The Uncollected Ian Watson is devoted to conserving these and other pieces previously scattered across anthologies and magazines—as well as Watson's views on films ranging from The Wicker Man to The Matrix, plus his perspectives on artificial intelligence as published in Intelligent Systems journal. His relationship with comics is explored, and much much more. Here’s the full line-up.CONTENTSThree Kinds of Close Encounters with ComicsHow I was Shot by Adolf HitlerJingling Geordie’s HoleBeware the Pedicating Tribads!King WeaselShell ShockHow the Elephant Escaped ExtinctionThe Drained WorldVile Dry Claws of the ToucanThe Tragedy of SolveigScience Fiction, Surrealism, and ShamanismThe Shortest NightThe Author as TorturerA Cage for DeathSecretsScarsThe Jew of LinzThe Big BuyEyes as Big as SaucersThe Aims of Artificial IntelligenceThe Matrix as SimulationThe Real WinstonH.G. Wells in TimişoaraOf Warfare and The War of the WorldsThe Wicker ManDark CityStephen King’s Thinner: An Attack Upon AmericaA Daffodil Jacket, or The Misadventures of Sebastian in KyivDivine DiseasesIntelligent Design 2.0Story NotesWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Uncollected Ian Watson. To get started finding The Uncollected Ian Watson, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 410

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: PS Publishing

Release: 2014

ISBN: 1848637500

Description: Here are powerful stories which have never been collected before, such as ‘Jingling Geordie's Hole’, voted both the best and the worst story of the year by readers of Interzone magazine (sometimes by the same readers!), the kernel of Watson's novel The Fire Worm. Likewise, the short story which birthed his novel Deathhunter. And there's a stand-alone story related to the masterful Mockymen, never published before now. The mischievous 'Divine Diseases', which appeared in the science journal Nature, brought protests to that august publication; a similar satirical brio informs ‘The Real Winston’, a clever alternative take on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.Besides stories, gathered here are many entertaining and often profound pieces of non-fiction, yielding deep insights into the author's creative works. In 'The Author as Torturer' he asks a question even more urgent today than when first voiced 20 years ago. Here are Watson's inspired impersonations of H.G. Wells (even if the period clothing doesn't show in print). Aptly, the Times Literary Supplement commented àpropos Watson's fiction: 'A phenomenon, a national resource to be conserved, Ian Watson resembles H.G. Wells in both invention and impatience.' Well, The Uncollected Ian Watson is devoted to conserving these and other pieces previously scattered across anthologies and magazines—as well as Watson's views on films ranging from The Wicker Man to The Matrix, plus his perspectives on artificial intelligence as published in Intelligent Systems journal. His relationship with comics is explored, and much much more. Here’s the full line-up.CONTENTSThree Kinds of Close Encounters with ComicsHow I was Shot by Adolf HitlerJingling Geordie’s HoleBeware the Pedicating Tribads!King WeaselShell ShockHow the Elephant Escaped ExtinctionThe Drained WorldVile Dry Claws of the ToucanThe Tragedy of SolveigScience Fiction, Surrealism, and ShamanismThe Shortest NightThe Author as TorturerA Cage for DeathSecretsScarsThe Jew of LinzThe Big BuyEyes as Big as SaucersThe Aims of Artificial IntelligenceThe Matrix as SimulationThe Real WinstonH.G. Wells in TimişoaraOf Warfare and The War of the WorldsThe Wicker ManDark CityStephen King’s Thinner: An Attack Upon AmericaA Daffodil Jacket, or The Misadventures of Sebastian in KyivDivine DiseasesIntelligent Design 2.0Story NotesWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Uncollected Ian Watson. To get started finding The Uncollected Ian Watson, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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