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Books by Ian Watson






The Embedding(1st Edition)
(GOLLANCZ S.F.,S.F. MASTERWORKS)
by Ian Watson
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2018 by Gollancz
ISBN-13: 978-1-4732-2267-0, ISBN: 1-4732-2267-2

"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 the nature of communication. Deep in the Brazilian jungle, an isolated tribe face eviction from their ancestral lands - and the psychedelic fungus that makes their religious language possible ..."






Aspects of Homeopathy(Updated)
Musculo-Skeletal Problems
by Ian Watson
Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 2004 by Cutting Edge Publications
ISBN-13: 978-0-9517657-4-6, ISBN: 0-9517657-4-4

"According to Hering's law, you should start with the problem that's presenting. Once you've cured that, then you treat the things that caused the problem in the first place. Audience: This means to me that so often in constitutional prescribing we're really flying in the face of that direction of Hering's law, because we're trying to find the most comprehensive healing and often going back and back.... Ian: We 're treating there, wh ..."






A Guide To The Methodologies Of Homeopathy(2nd Edition)
by Ian Watson
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2004 by Cutting Edge Publications
ISBN-13: 978-0-9517657-6-0, ISBN: 0-9517657-6-0

"Boenninghausenʼs Characteristics and Repertory is one of the earliest repertories, but was completely revised and updated by Boger in the early part of this century. It is a major work, but is probably doomed to stay on the back shelves of most homeopathic libraries these days. Clarkeʼs Clinical Repertory was produced as a companion volume to his Dictionary of Materia Medica and The Prescriber, with which it is crossreferenced to s ..."






The Homeopathic Miasms - A Modern View
by Ian Watson
Paperback, 118 Pages, Published 2009 by Cutting Edge Publications
ISBN-13: 978-0-9517657-8-4, ISBN: 0-9517657-8-7

"This is a modern review of the homeopathic theory of miasms, taking Hahnemann's groundbreaking hypothesis as the starting point, and extending it to include positive as well as negative traits, exploring how miasms can and do contribute to a growth in human consciousness. Considering the miasms as challenges to humanity, the author describes each major miasm in terms of its life issues and affinities, with the disease aspects being inco ..."






Rick Steves' Russia & the Baltics
(Rick Steves' Russia and the Baltics)
by Rick Steves, Ian Watson
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1998 by Avalon Travel Pub
ISBN-13: 978-1-56261-389-1, ISBN: 1-56261-389-8

"Because they are the most predictable and best targets for visitors on a first trip to Russia, Steves focuses on the pleasures to be found in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia; Vilnius, Lithuania; Tallinn, Estonia; and Riga, Latvia. For those intrigued by the area, 1998 affords a great time to travel to this fascinating destination. 15 maps ."






The Flies of Memory(1st Edition)
by Ian Watson
Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 1991 by Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN-13: 978-0-88184-782-6, ISBN: 0-88184-782-8

"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"






Salvage Rites and Other Stories
by Ian Watson
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1990 by Grafton
ISBN-13: 978-0-586-20853-3, ISBN: 0-586-20853-4






The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories(1st Edition)
by Ian Whates, Ian Watson, Kim Newman, Harry Turtledove, Gregory Benford, Frederick Pohl
Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2010 by Running Press
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-7624-3842-6, ISBN: 0-7624-3842-8

"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 writers such as James Morrow, Stephen Baxter, and Ken MacLeod, there are genre classics from Kim Stanley Robinson, Harry Turtledove, and George Zebrowski: over 20 stories in all."






The Jonah Kit. a New science Fiction Novel By the Author of the Embedding(1st Edition)
by Ian Watson
Hardcover, 221 Pages, Published 1975 by Charles Scribner's Sons
ISBN-13: 978-0-684-14600-3, ISBN: 0-684-14600-2






Waters of Destiny
by Ian Watson, Andy West
Paperback, 550 Pages, Published 2019 by Steel Quill Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-912950-10-2, ISBN: 1-912950-10-3

"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 Leclaire has no idea of the danger she faces as she attempts to learn more of a 14th century poet and solve the riddle of a few tantalising lines of verse. Soon she becomes the focus of attention from both t ..."






The The Trouble with Tall Ones
by Ian Watson
132 Pages, Published 2019 by Ps Publishing, Hornsea
ISBN-13: 978-1-78636-432-6, ISBN: 1-78636-432-8






Oracle
by Ian Watson
287 Pages, Published 2011 by Gateway
ISBN-13: 978-0-575-11473-9, ISBN: 0-575-11473-8

"Patricia Bates might have felt less anxious in the back of the camper van if metal blinds did not blank all the windows, including the one in the door to the driver's cab. Her escort sat reading a thriller. She thought of the muscular young man as some kind of orderly, there to restrain her if she misbehaved. He had saidthat his name was Sam. Sam would talk to her in a cheery way, but he would not tell her anything about where they ..."






The Power
by Ian Watson
232 Pages, Published 2011 by Gateway
ISBN-13: 978-0-575-11465-4, ISBN: 0-575-11465-7

"Ron asked Gareth.“Itwas a RhodeIsland red!” “No, listento me,Mr Diamond. Youmight destroy the planet withyour deadly, God fearing, sanitized innocence – and tokeep the mice from your applepie, which is anywhere and everywhere. Better dead than red. Nuke the bastards. And a fifth of all Americans are looking forward toa nuclear warwith positively biblical fervour. All those bornagain Christians, right? How morelethally applepie inno ..."






The Embedding
by Ian Watson
254 Pages, Published 2011 by Gateway
ISBN-13: 978-0-575-11452-4, ISBN: 0-575-11452-5

"For the first time since his arrival, Ph'theri seemed nonplussed—stood there wasting time, while the seconds drew out visibly. Sole noticed how the Nevada skyline was lightening with premonitions of dawn. Finally Ph'theri clasped his hands together. “Some credit is owing to you, true. But in some situations noinformation is valuable. Who knows, the fact that we have not flown over your cities may be highly assessed by you?” Sole ig ..."






The Butterflies of Memory
by Ian Watson
435 Pages, Published 2011 by Gateway
ISBN-13: 978-0-575-11483-8, ISBN: 0-575-11483-5

"This storywas hatched betweenme and my Italianwriter friend Roberto Quaglia ( www.robertoquaglia.com) ina mysterious Hungarian hotel half way up a forested hillside a mile from the Slovak border. We were both attending an SF convention  ..."






The Guild of Xenolinguists(1st Edition)
by Sheila Finch, Ian Watson
Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2007 by Golden Gryphon Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-930846-48-7, ISBN: 1-930846-48-7

"The galaxy-wide Guild of Xenolinguists handles all cross-cultural communications by sending agents abroad to learn new languages and program translation computers. The travails of novice linguists animate these 11 stories as they face much more than simple translation work, taking on alien parasites and viruses, a mysterious and violent star-faring race, dolphin instructors, and large tyrant ants. As cultures and languages collide, firs ..."






Clydeside
The Herald Book of the Clyde (The Herald Book of the Clyde) (v. 3)
by Ian Watson, Robert Jeffrey
Hardcover, 172 Pages, Published 2000 by Black And White Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-902927-14-5, ISBN: 1-902927-14-1






The Coming of Vertumnus(1st Edition)
And Other Stories
by Ian Watson
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1995 by Victor Gollancz
ISBN-13: 978-0-575-05766-1, ISBN: 0-575-05766-1

"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."






The Fallen Moon(Updated)
The Second Book of Mana
by Ian Watson
Paperback, 546 Pages, Published 1995 by Victor Gollancz
ISBN-13: 978-0-575-06098-2, ISBN: 0-575-06098-0

"The sequel to "Lucky's Harvest", this book continues the story of Lucky Sariola, a spaceship-pilot who has settled on a planet that resembles her Finnish homeland. The act of casting out her daughter for mating with a shapechanger intitiates a series of events that brings havoc to the settlers."






Lucky's Harvest
Mana Book 1: The First Book of Mana (Mana, Vol 1)
by Ian Watson
Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 1994 by Victor Gollancz
ISBN-13: 978-0-575-05779-1, ISBN: 0-575-05779-3



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