My 60 + 10th Birthday

20th April 2013 was my 60 + 10th birthday – I’ve decided to adopt the Babylonian number system for birthdays. I was both flabbergasted and gobsmacked (or, in more elegant British, “really rather surprised”) when Cristina and Roberto lured me down to the dark basement of the Don Manuel hotel on the pretext of looking

Stability Bracelets for the Elderly!!

  It is now an established scientific fact that, after a certain age is reached, mortality rates level off and then decline. Ageing isn´t like rust; it doesn´t continue to accumulate. To test this, hundreds of students watched different populations of thousands of flies at the University of California for months on end.  99-year-old little

Intelligent Design 2.0

This tale, of what really happened when Adam and Eve first woke up, appeared in 2010 Rudy Rucker´s excellent Flurb, which also carries in the current issue “The Invention of Beloved Money” by me and Roberto Quaglia, solving the world´s monetary problems, to which the Flurb link will take you; the photo shows us receiving

New Cookbook, and Wedding

In the run-up to Xmas 2012 my first cookbook appeared in Spanish in collaboration with my beloved Cristina Macía, 50 Recetas con nombre, 50 meals named after famous people (mostly) such as Oysters Rockefeller and Beef Stroganoff.  This, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the big Spanish book club Círculo de Lectores.  I wrote the

A Bundle of Interviews

Here are half a dozen interviews from the past 10 years about Stanley Kubrick, Space Marine, Cthulhu, writing poetry, technothrillers, my influences, and lots of other things. NICK GEVERS INTERVIEW; ANSWERS BY IAN WATSON in 2002 (…but what were the questions? Apparently prompted by my story collection The Great Escape, now available as an ebook

Amazon Reviews of Assassins

Here are 7 jolly nice reviews of Assassins by me and Andy West, found floating in the river Amazon. 5.0 out of 5 stars Da Vinci Code with an Eastern Twist, 26 Nov 2012 By Rod Rees To me, the worth of any book can be gauged by the answer to the question `did it

Great review in Spanish of Chekhov´s Journey in Spanish

A lovely review by Mario Moreno Cortina of Paco Arellano´s translation of Chekhov´s Journey, published by Paco´s excellent Biblioteca del Laberinto, is here. Anglophones, get out your  dictionaries and learn Spanish the SF way!  

Rendezvous with rama

The Next Big Thing

Blame Andy Remic!  He tapped me on the shoulder, handed me the Black Spot, and he has a big gun… 1) What is the working title of your next book? The Waters of Destiny, co-written with Andy West, divided into 3 vols for e-publication, namely Assassins, Tongue of Knowledge, and Death Overflows. 2) Where did

Major new novel now published (November 2012)

The Waters of Destiny by Ian Watson and Andy West is published simultaneously in 3 ebooks with gorgeous covers: Assassins, Tongue of Knowledge, and Death Overflows.