— J. G. Ballard
Ian Watson combines science fiction and fantasy into an eclectic mix that includes stories
about fallen angels in Hell rebelling and mounting a breakout, about the inconvenience of
keeping aging parents in your brain instead of a nursing home, about Jesus’ immortal
brother as solo passenger on the first starship, about alien coffins bombarding the solar
system, about right-wing U.S. militias stealing a quantum computer to commit nuclear
blackmail, about a computer-games designer haunted by the cyber-ghost of his murdered
wife, about frozen heads and strange mind-changes, and how a cake decorator defeats a
vampire with a sweet tooth. De-evolution, treasure-hunting via hang-glider, dark animal
fantasies, humanity as a hive-entity, Hercules Poirot on a starship—Watson takes the
strange, the eerie, the weird, mixes in his seasoned writing skills, and produces a
potpourri of the fantastic. These nineteen stories are sure to amuse, bemuse, and entertain.
His stories have been finalists for the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and widely anthologized. From 1990 to 1991 he worked full-time with Stanley Kubrick on story development for the movie A.I., now directed by Steven Spielberg, for which Watson has screen credit for Screen Story.
Cover art by Ron Walotsky.
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