3 books by Ian Watson
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Overview: Ian Watson was born in Tyneside in 1943. He studied English at Balliol College, Oxford. His first speculative fiction stories were stimulated by his three-year stay as a lecturer in Japan. In 1969 Roof Garden Under Saturn, a short story, was published in New Worlds magazine, and since then his stories have appeared in various magazines and anthologies. They have also been published in book form in four previous collections, The Very Slow Time Machine, Sunstroke, Slow Birds and Evil Water.
Ian Watson’s first novel, The Embedding, was published in 1973 and received enormous critical acclaim. His second novel, The Jonah Kit, became a British Science Fiction Award winner as well as confirming his position in the front rank of contemporary writers.
Genre: Science Fiction, Horror
Whores of Babylon
The city of Babylon lay on the river Euphrates, out in the Arizona desert. The river was piped underground from Gila Bend, but the tower of Babel was real enough, its spiral roadway curling up towards the heavens, wide enough for several dokney-carts.
Alex Winter and Deborah Tate arrived by hovercraft, their minds babbling in the Greek that had been pumped into them via computer interface at the University of Heuristics. English had yet to be invented and the young king Alexander was still dying in his palace.
Alex was a sociology drop-out from the University of Oregon at Eugene. He wanted to become a Babylonian. Women sat outside the Temple of Ishtar, waiting for some stranger to toss a coin into their laps. The prospect seemed to fascinate Deborah. She wanted to become one of the Whores of Babylon…
Under Heaven’s Bridge with Michael Bishop
The kybers are an unnerving sight for human eyes, more like Giacommetti sculpture than living things. Are they flesh or machine? No one knows – and the Kybers themselves remain impassively silent on the subject. Only Dr. Keiko Takihashi, ship’s linguist, has been able to establish any communication with them; each day a Kyber comes (The same each day? No one knows.) to hear what she teaches of Earth’s language and history. In return it tells her – nothing. What the Kybers call themselves, how they view the world, their two suns, all remains a mystery.
But a time is coming when the Kybers must respond, or die; one of their suns is about to go nova. Surely nothing could live through that fierce heat – assuming, that is, that the Kybers are living.
Keiko Takihashi is convinced that they are, and determined to save at least some of their race from annihilation. The Kybers have singled her out; surely they will tell her their secrets, open themselves to her, allow her to take some few on board ship and away to safety. In interfering so, Keiko is about to step over a line established at man’s first contact with alien races; she knows all too well that no one can predict what will happen now.
The Power
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.
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