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     Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.106.58 |
I recently read a short story in the anthology The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories, by Ian Watson called "Happy Hour". I really loved it. The story actually had a cigarette smoke, fan-despenser as an evil force. Does he write much horror? I really hadn't heard of him before. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.60 |
This could be the same Ian Watson who writes/wrote SF - if it is, he's been around for many years. | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.106.58 |
"This could be the same Ian Watson who writes/wrote SF - if it is, he's been around for many years." I believe it is the same guy. I have trouble getting into Sci-Fi though. I'd be interested in checking out more of his horror work based on the short story listed above.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.20.239 |
Ooh, you need seventies sci-fi. It's where the rich stuff lies and rubs shoulders with horror and the mysterious. Try Ballard. | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.39.177.173 |
Ian Watson writes mainly SF and he had a hand in AI (during the Kubrick era, I think). Very nice bloke (I met him at a reading and he read some of my stuff), but I'm not a big sci-fi nut so I hadn't read anything of his at the time. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
Didn't Watson write a horror novel called Wyrm? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
I used to have a friend called Ian Watson. He used to go on about loving Worksop. Which sounded like workshop because of his lips. I used to say "you like going to a workshop? what workshop?" Is that him? | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.48.97 |
I've read Watsons's THE EMBEDDING, THE JONAH KIT, & MIRACLE VISITORS. Sadly none of them did a lot for me (THE EMBEDDING completely confused me). He has written some very funny short stories in Interzone, though | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.84.40 |
Ian Watson, John, wrote a short story I read in TROPICAL CHILLS, that just blew my mind away - and it blew away every other story in that anthology too (well, except for Mr. Wolfe's, a close second): "White Socks" (originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Feb. 1985). Hunt that one down - today! - it's well worth the effort |