Ian Watson

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  • Bibliography:
    73 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1975
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Inqusition War Triogy

1 - Inquisitor // Draco (1990)
2 - Harlequin (Sep-1994)
3 - Chaos Child (1995)

Mana

2 - The Fallen Moon (1995)

Multi-Author Series List

Warhammer 40,000

Inquisitor // Draco (1990)
The Alien Beast Within (1990)
Warped Stars (1990)
Space Marine (1993)
Harlequin (Sep-1994)
Chaos Child (1995)

Warhammer Universe

Inquisitor // Draco (1990)
Space Marine (1993)
Harlequin (Sep-1994)
Chaos Child (1995)

Book List in Order: 73 titles

  • The Embedding

    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 t...

  • The Gardens of Delight

    In The Gardens of Delight Ian Watson boldly lands a starship within the hallucinatory terrain of Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Garden of Earthly Delights, a medieval masterpiece which enchants and horrifies all who see it, for the picture shows wha...

  • The Book of the River

    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...

  • Queenmagic, Kingmagic

    • / General Fiction
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    In another world, somewhere in space and time, two countries - Bellogard and Chorny - are locked in perpetual war, conducted by magic. Each of the main members of the two countries' courts - king, queen, prince, bishop, knight and squire - has their ...

  • Book of the Stars

    Trapped by the evil Edrick in a locked room, Yaleen is cold-bloodedly murdered. But it is not the end of Yaleen's story, for she is given a second life - a reincarnation on Earth as a 'cherub'.Soon she encounters Godmind, the megalomaniac artificial...

  • Deathhunter

    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...

  • The Book of Being

    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 ...

  • Inquisitor // Draco

    • / Space Opera
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    Inqusition War Triogy - 1
    Warhammer 40,000
    Warhammer Universe

    THAT ONLY LEFT Jaq one alternative - an ultimate alternative which no one could reasonably expect him to invoke, let alone soon… The name of that alternative was exterminatus. ‘In an Imperium of a million worlds,' he repeated to himself...

  • The Alien Beast Within

    in Deathwing
    • / Space Opera
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    Warhammer 40,000

    A new collection of short stories chronicles the exploits of the Deathwing, the secretive inner circle of the Emperor's warriors, the Dark Angels, in the stark and brutal universe of Warhammer 40,000. Original....



  • Warped Stars

    in Deathwing
    • / Space Opera
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    Warhammer 40,000

    WARHAMMER 40,000 SHORT STORIES FULLY SIX METRES high, the creature stood on four splayed, spider-like legs of scything blades that cut the air with a deadly grace. Its vicious gash of a slobbering mouth was filled with hundreds of serrated, chisel...

  • God's World

    The sudden appearance of angelic beings bearing a mystical space drive and a summons to ''God's World'' launches an international crew of scientists on a voyage to the far limits of space. There they become embroiled in an alien war that will decide ...

  • The Miracle Visitors

    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 sc...

  • Chekhov's Journey

    In 1890 the Russian author Chekhov undertook an historic journey across Siberia to the convict island of Sakhalin. A hundred years later, in an isolated artist's retreat, a Soviet film unit prepares to commemorate his journey by using a technique th...

  • Nanoware Time

    NANOWARE TIME The aliens came from Beta Hydri, bearing gifts for Earth: microscopic machines called "nanoware." Injected into the human bloodstream, they would open powerful realms of inner space. But even the aliens admitted there were demons in tha...

  • The Flies of Memory

    When aliens begin transporting areas of Earth--Rome's St. Peter's, New Orleans' French Quarter--to different points in the universe, Charles Spark travels to Mars in an attempt to understand their actions...

  • Inquisitor

  • Space Marine

    • / Space Opera
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    Warhammer 40,000
    Warhammer Universe

    Believe us when we tell you that Space Marine is quite unlike any other Warhammer 40,000 novel you’ve ever read. First published in 1993 - though completed some years earlier - at a time when the background to the Warhammer 40,000 universe was sti...

  • Harlequin

    Inqusition War Triogy - 2
    Warhammer 40,000
    Warhammer Universe

    BY HIS ORDER Jaq had condemned Meh'lindi to death. If her death were to be the diversion he required, she was accepting this. He distrusted her alien armour. He knew that she wasn't sprayed with an assassin's resistant synskin. As the ...

  • The Fallen Moon

    Mana - 2

    The second and concluding volume of Ian Watson's extraordinary epic, The Book of Mana. Kaleva is Earth's first and only interstellar colony, discovered by Lucky Sariola who was transported there by an Ukko, a mysterious asteriod-like entity that resp...



  • Chaos Child

    • / Space Opera
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    Inqusition War Triogy - 3
    Warhammer 40,000
    Warhammer Universe

    'Draco found and entered the Black Library!' declared Eldrad. Hidden in the webway, guarded by terrible forces, its location known only to Great Harlequins, that repository of knowledge about daemons should have been forever secure. Draco ...

  • Hard Questions

    Meet Qua, the quantum computer with the immense power capabilities that tunes into pathways in parallel universes to operate at lightning speed. But with such power comes the threat of catastrophe, and as government agents, cult disciples, and compu...

  • Converts

    He is a financial giant but the Sponsor wants more - he wants to become a super human, to be the modern-day Adam, father to a new generation of humans with heightened DNA. He had the viral injection to change himself, the will to do it, and now all h...

  • The Fire Worm

    Psychiatrist John Cunningham is secretly also "Jack Cannon", author of popular horror novels. Under hypnotic regression, John's patient Tony reveals a bizarre and horrifying tale of a "past life" lived on Tyneside in the 1950s, involving two schoolb...

  • The Black Wall of Jerusalem

    in 30th Anniversary DAW: Science Fiction
    • / Science Fiction
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    Such masters of the Science Fiction genre as Tad Williams, Brian Aldiss, Frederik Pohl, Kate Elliot, C.J. Cherryh, and Julie E. Czerneda contribute all new, original pieces of short fiction to this commemorative volume honoring DAW Books thirtieth ye...

  • The Great Escape

    Predictably unpredictable, normally abnormal.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 you...

  • The Jonah Kit

    When a young Russian boy disappears from a top-secret Soviet research establishment and turns up in Tokyo, he presents a major problem for the American security officials. For the boy appears to be part of a sophisticated experiment and to have the ...

  • Mockymen

    When a young British couple, who make jigsaw puzzles, are hired by an ageing Norwegian to take nude photos of themselves in a sculpture park in Oslo, they are drawn into a web of occult Nazi horror. Even more horrifying will be the fate of the whole ...

  • Whores Of Babylon

    Alex Winter and Deborah Tate arrive by hovercraft at the city of Babylon, lying on the river Euphrates in the Arizona desert. He is a sociology drop-out from the University of Oregon at Eugene who wants to become a Babylonian. She has a much stranger...

  • Yaleen

    Yaleen, the river-woman, has always been involved with “the black current,” a strip of black running along the center of the river that separates the eastern bank from the mysterious western side. No one is really sure what the black current is, ...



  • Time Pieces

  • Some Fast Thinking Needed

    in We Think Therefore We Are

    STEPHEN BAXTER * BRIAN STABLEFORD * ERIC BROWN JAMES LOVEGROVE * ADAM ROBERTS * TONY BALLANTYNE STEVEN UTLEY * MADLY YOUMANS * ROBERT REED PAUL DI FILIPPO * PATRICK O'LEARY * GARRY KILWORTH KEITH BROOKE * IAN WATSON * CHRIS ROBERSON Scientists...

  • Queen Magic, King Magic

    Pedino, a courageous pawn-squire in Bellogard, the kingdom of light, was superbly skilled in the magic of diagonal combat and fiercely loyal to his king. His forbidden passion for the woman-warrior Sara, a squire in the dark land of Chorny, could onl...

  • The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories

    Every short story in this wonderfully varied collection has in common some diversion in history, some alternate reality from what we know, resulting in a very different world. In addition to original stories specially commissioned from bestselling wr...

  • A Little Bit of Previous

    DI Rick Cole and the psychologist Geoff Maynard to the unsuspecting criminals on the patch of the Metropolitan Police, Sheerham, Divisional and Area HQ. Now they’re back to contend with a serial slasher, someone who is throwing bombs around and ...

  • The Beloved of My Beloved

    Tattooed on a woman-sized tumour, these tales, told to it as bedtime stories, are by turns surreal, satiric, erotic, obscene, ingenious, hilarious, and quite, quite brilliant. Together, they combine to create a weird and wonderful love story, unlike ...

  • London Town

    The wedding of Tom Smith's son and Coddy Hughes' daughter joined together two of England's most ruthless and powerful crime syndicates. Time has not been kind to these two royal families of British organized crime. "The end of an era...

  • The Book of Ian Watson

    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...

  • The Butterflies of Memory

    Ian Watson is one of the finest writers of SF and fantasy stories, and Butterflies of Memory is his 10th collection, a selection of stories that are by turns serious and playful, and always wildly imaginative... In the title story, what if mobile pho...

  • The Coming of Vertumnus

    A collection of science-fiction short stories by the author of "Lucky's Harvest". They feature dozens of characters, a new way of travelling between the stars, a strange planet, magical powers, bravura set-pieces, and manoeuvres of narrative....



  • Evil Water

    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...

  • Lucky's Harvest

    When she was a young girl Lucky belonged to a space-going mining commune which came upon an asteroid whose caves concealed the bones of serpentine aliens and humanoids. It was Lucky who discovered that the rock was an Ukko, a mysterious entity which...

  • Meat

    When Saul and Diane save a wild rabbit from a hungry weasel in a quiet country lane, they inadvertently unleash the vengeance of a bloodthirsty, carnivorous force.Soon their sanity and their lives are at risk - as are the young people of a cell of th...

  • Oracle

    When Tom Ryan stops his car late at night on a dark road for a man dressed as a Roman centurion, his first thought is that he's picked up one of those amateur re-enactors but the man, Marcus Appius Silvanus appears to speak only Latin. He insists th...

  • Orgasmachine

    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 ow...

  • 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....

  • Salvage Rites

    Ian Watson's latest collection shows the same range and apparently inexhaustible fund of ideas that have characterized all his previous books. No other contemporary figure in SF is so prolific or inventive a writer of short stories. In the title st...

  • Slow Birds

    Where do the metal death gliders come from? To the glass-sailors of the five villages the slow birds that inched over the Earth at shoulder height, appearing and vanishing, were a mystery - until young Daniel climbed aboard one of the scarred Missil...

  • Stalin's Teardrops

    Ian Watson is one of the most prolific short story writers in contemporary science fiction, with a range and invention that others might envy. In this collection we move from a ghostly occurrence in Catalonia to a memorably hallucinatory and atmosph...

  • Sunstroke

    This second collection of Watson's short stories further demonstrates his seemingly inexhaustible imagination. In 'The Thousand Cuts' the entire human race finds its consciousness blanked out for varying periods, but life seems somehow to have gone ...



  • The Very Slow Time Machine

    The Very Slow Time Machine arrives on earth in 1985. Its sole inhabitant is old and mad. Soon it becomes apparent that for him, time is going slowly backward. With every day, he is getting younger and saner. The world, and its whole concept of ti...

  • Now Recruiting

  • The Mammoth Book of SF Wars

    Over the past 100 years the technology of war has advanced enormously in destructive power. So what will future wars be like? And what will cause them: religion, politics, resources, refugees, or advanced weaponry itself? Watson and Whates present a ...

  • Assassins

  • Making Universes

  • Nymphomaniac Cop

  • Flicker

    They were illicit, outrageous, obscene. They were the films that were supposed to deprave and corrupt the minds of those who watched them. They were the Video Nasties....and everything you've heard is true....

  • Deeply Odd

  • Nymphomaniac Cop: Rise Of The Monster

  • Memory Man & Other Poems

    Born in St Albans in 1943 and raised on Tyneside, Ian Watson escaped to Oxford as a student in 1960 for 5 years, including a dissertation on 19th Century French literature. Next he taught literature in Tanzania, then Tokyo, and finally (along with Fu...

  • Semen Demon

  • Watching Porn With Leatherface

  • Something Weird

    “On the morning of Sunday April 16, two days before his fortieth birthday, Samuel P Bishop went to kill a man….”Nick Blake has it all: success, wealth, fame. His last book, Come The Night, was a bestseller, and he’s currently ...

  • She Devil With A Shotgun

  • The 1000 Year Reich

    Ian Watson, author of the very first novels in the Warhammer 40K universe, makes a long-anticipated return to military SF with In Golden Armour, one of three original stories in this fabulous new collection from the man who wrote the screen story to ...

  • Waters of Destiny

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    Ancient Plague as a Bio-Weapon.

    A cult of assassins living on as modern day Terrorists.

    Could a scrap of medieval poetry really hold the key to saving an unsuspecting world from the grip of deadly pandemic? Canadian historian Abigail ...

  • Giant Dwarfs

    This rousing steampunk adventure with timeslip elements finds the intrepid Mademoiselle Hortense and her brave beau, Captain Pierre Marc-Antoine Dumont d’Urville, following a minor writer named Jules Verne "twenty-five leagues under the Earth&#...

  • The Monster, The Mermaid, And Doctor Mengele

    Josef Mengele: The Wilderness Years:Multiple award-winning author Ian Watson, who wrote the very first Warhammer 40K novels and worked for 10 months with Stanley Kubrick to produce the screen story for A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (subse...

  • The Chinese Time Machine

    The first short story collection in seven years from multiple award-winning author Ian Watson, who worked with Stanley Kubrick for a year writing the screen story to the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence, and was the first novelist to write in the Wa...

  • Alien Embassy

    • / Science Fiction
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    Lila Makindi grows up in East Africa in a peaceful and harmonious 22nd century world, which has succeeded our own age of extravagance, environmental damage, and warfare.Its citizens know that the Space Communications Administration, better known as B...

  • Come The Night

    • / Horror
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  • The Martian Inca

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    The Mars Probe has crashed.A triumph of Soviet technology, the first two-way interplanetary probe performed brilliantly until the final stage of its return. Then something went wrong: rather than following its programmed course to a soft landing in ...

  • The Trouble with Tall Ones

    • / Science Fiction
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    Prior to what follows, our plucky quartet of Xiaolong, Zbeth, Yatta, and Ngela—who crew the time machine salvage ship Fibonacci which sets out from Cranberry, Oz, in 2776 Common Era aided by Homer the Artificial Intelligence to salvage time mac...

  • Under Heaven's Bridge

    • / Fantasy
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ian Watson has published 73 books.

Ian Watson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Chinese Time Machine, was published in April 2023.

The first book by Ian Watson, The Embedding, was published in April 1975.

Yes. Ian Watson has 2 series.
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