ISBN 978-1-916508-32-3 (trade paperback)
ISBN 978-1-916508-33-0 (ebook)
Front cover
Ansible Editions, March 2025
Cover photograph of Ian Watson by Cristina Macía.
The trade paperback Watto’s Wisdom is released in March 2025 simultaneously with the ebook. 193 pages; approximately 93,000 words. All proceeds from sales go to the TransAtlantic Fan Fund.
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.
