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Watto’s Wisdom
Zine & Con Writing by
Ian WatsonISBN 978-1-916508-33-0
As a major science fiction author active for well over half a century, Ian Watson needs no introduction. He has also been a regular contributor to SF fanzines and convention publications since the mid-1970s. This nonfiction volume presents a generous selection of more than fifty pieces first published thus: essays, reviews, memoirs, whimsies, polemic, convention reports, the secret histories of how several of his books were written, and brain-boggling speculations on UFOs and other arcana. One highlight is a long and surreally comic memoir of working with Stanley Kubrick on the film script which eventually became A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.
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First published as an ebook for the TAFF site on 1 March 2025. Cover photograph of Ian Watson by Cristina Macía. Approximately 93,000 words.
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