Ian Watson is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has published two textbooks and over one hundred scientific papers, on various aspects of artificial intelligence and is a regular speaker at computer science conferences worldwide. He also makes regular contributions to the popular NZ computer magazine Net Guide.
68 Ebooks by Ian Watson
Ian Watson: The Universal Machine
The computer unlike other inventions is universal; you can use a computer for many tasks: writing, composing music, designing buildings, creating movies, inhabiting virtual worlds, communicating…&# …
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Ian Watson: Kurzpassspiel
Für manche ist es die schönste Nebensache der Welt. Andere sagen: „Ist ja NUR ein Spiel“. Ian Watsons Leidenschaft geht über die reine Sportbegeisterung hinaus. Er macht aus Spielberichten Poesie und …
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Aa.Vv. & Ian Watson: Hai trovato orgasmi nel collettore quantico?
Sette racconti che ruotano, si compenetrano e sviscerano un sistema articolato di quantistica sessuale, una sequenza di perversioni carnali complesse e futuribili, indefinite, dai limiti evanescenti …
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Roberto Quaglia & Ian Watson: Una lettera da Dio
Se Dio provasse a mettersi in contatto con l’umanità non sarebbe facile riconoscerlo. Se poi, andando nell’Aldilà, scoprissimo che Dio è a capo di una Società, sarebbe sorprendente. Come sapere che G …
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Ian Watson: Applying Knowledge Management
The wholesale capture and distribution of knowledge over the last thirty years has created an unprecedented need for organizations to manage their knowledge assets. Knowledge Management (KM) addresse …
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Ian Watson: Towards a Third Theatre
Eugenio Barba is one of Europe’s leading theatre directors, at the forefront of experimental and group theatre for more than twenty years. Ian Watson provides the most comprehensive and systematic st …
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Michael Bishop & Ian Watson: Under Heaven’s Bridge
A multinational expedition has landed on the planet Onogoro, a cold and dour world circling one star of a binary pair. Their objective is to investigate a strange alien race, known to the human visit …
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Ian Watson: Book of the River
The river cuts right across the known world, from the impassable Far Precipices to the sea. The people on one bank are cut off from those on the other, for the black current has the power to stop the …
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Ian Watson: Book of the Stars
Trapped by the evil Edrick in a locked room, Yaleen is cold-bloodedly murdered. But it is not the end of Yaleen’s story, for she is given a second life – a reincarnation on Earth as a ‘cherub’.Soon s …
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Ian Watson: Book of Being
The megalomaniac Godmind is still planning to use all the minds in creation to make a vast ‘lens’, and if necessary it will burn out all life in the process.Back beside the river and literally born a …
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Ian Watson: Lucky’s Harvest
When she was a young girl Lucky belonged to a space-going mining commune which came upon an asteroid whose caves concealed the bones of serpentine aliens and humanoids. It was Lucky who discovered th …
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Ian Watson: Fallen Moon
The second and concluding volume of Ian Watson’s extraordinary epic, The Book of Mana. Kaleva is Earth’s first and only interstellar colony, discovered by Lucky Sariola who was transported there by a …
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Ian Watson: Embedding
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 ling …
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Ian Watson: Jonah Kit
When a young Russian boy disappears from a top-secret Soviet research establishment and turns up in Tokyo, he presents a major problem for the American security officials. For the boy appears to be p …
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Ian Watson: Orgasmachine
The Three Laws of Feministics:1. Your body is not your own; it belongs to another. Therefore you may not damage it nor, through inaction, allow it to be damaged.2. You must obey all orders given you …
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Ian Watson: Martian Inca
The Mars Probe has crashed.A triumph of Soviet technology, the first two-way interplanetary probe performed brilliantly until the final stage of its return. Then something went wrong: rather than fol …
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Ian Watson: Alien Embassy
Lila Makindi grows up in East Africa in a peaceful and harmonious 22nd century world, which has succeeded our own age of extravagance, environmental damage, and warfare.Its citizens know that the Spa …
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Ian Watson: Miracle Visitors
John Deacon uses hypnosis to research altered states of consciousness. One of his subjects, Michael Peacocke, is unusually susceptible and in their first session together he recalls a Close Encounter …
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Ian Watson: God’s World
The sudden appearance of angelic beings bearing a mystical space drive and a summons to ”God’s World” launches an international crew of scientists on a voyage to the far limits of space. There they …
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Ian Watson: Gardens of Delight
In The Gardens of Delight Ian Watson boldly lands a starship within the hallucinatory terrain of Hieronymus Bosch’s painting The Garden of Earthly Delights, a medieval masterpiece which enchants and …
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Ian Watson: Deathhunter
The regions that have survived the holocaust in Watson’s new novel have largely transformed themselves from prewar violence into a peaceful utopia, without either conflict or art. In place of belief …
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Ian Watson: Chekhov’s Journey
In 1890 the Russian author Chekhov undertook an historic journey across Siberia to the convict island of Sakhalin. A hundred years later, in an isolated artist’s retreat, a Soviet film unit prepares …
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Ian Watson: Converts
He is a financial giant but the Sponsor wants more – he wants to become a super human, to be the modern-day Adam, father to a new generation of humans with heightened DNA. He had the viral injection …
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Ian Watson: Queenmagic, Kingmagic
In another world, somewhere in space and time, two countries – Bellogard and Chorny – are locked in perpetual war, conducted by magic. Each of the main members of the two countries’ courts – king, qu …
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Ian Watson: Power
An ancient Power awakes.A modern evil mushrooms into apocalypse.Cocooned in a nightmare world, the village of Melfort waits, as The Power feeds on the death and destruction, fuelling its gross appeti …
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Ian Watson: Fire Worm
Psychiatrist John Cunningham is secretly also "Jack Cannon", author of popular horror novels. Under hypnotic regression, John’s patient Tony reveals a bizarre and horrifying tale of a " …
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Ian Watson: Whores of Babylon
Alex Winter and Deborah Tate arrive by hovercraft at the city of Babylon, lying on the river Euphrates in the Arizona desert. He is a sociology drop-out from the University of Oregon at Eugene who wa …
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Ian Watson: Meat
When Saul and Diane save a wild rabbit from a hungry weasel in a quiet country lane, they inadvertently unleash the vengeance of a bloodthirsty, carnivorous force.Soon their sanity and their lives ar …
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Ian Watson: Flies of Memory
Charles Spark is an expert on body language, a bestselling author and a consultant (or walking lie detector) much in demand with industry and government. So when the aliens arrive, who better to join …
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Ian Watson: Hard Questions
Meet Qua, the quantum computer with the immense power capabilities that tunes into pathways in parallel universes to operate at lightning speed. But with such power comes the threat of catastrophe, a …
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Ian Watson: Oracle
When Tom Ryan stops his car late at night on a dark road for a man dressed as a Roman centurion, his first thought is that he’s picked up one of those amateur re-enactors but the man, Marcus Appius S …
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Ian Watson: Mockymen
When a young British couple, who make jigsaw puzzles, are hired by an ageing Norwegian to take nude photos of themselves in a sculpture park in Oslo, they are drawn into a web of occult Nazi horror. …
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Ian Watson: Very Slow Time Machine
The Very Slow Time Machine arrives on earth in 1985. Its sole inhabitant is old and mad. Soon it becomes apparent that for him, time is going slowly backward. With every day, he is getting younger an …
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Ian Watson: Sunstroke: And Other Stories
This second collection of Watson’s short stories further demonstrates his seemingly inexhaustible imagination. In ‘The Thousand Cuts’ the entire human race finds its consciousness blanked out for var …
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Ian Watson: Slow Birds: And Other Stories
Where do the metal death gliders come from? To the glass-sailors of the five villages the slow birds that inched over the Earth at shoulder height, appearing and vanishing, were a mystery – until you …
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Ian Watson: Evil Water: And Other Stories
In his fourth short-story collection, Watson again demonstrates the extraordinary scope of his imagination. The title story has ancient witchcraft meeting complacent modern suburbia in a tale of spin …
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Ian Watson: Salvage Rites: And Other Stories
Ian Watson’s latest collection shows the same range and apparently inexhaustible fund of ideas that have characterized all his previous books. No other contemporary figure in SF is so prolific or inv …
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Ian Watson: Stalin’s Teardrops: And Other Stories
Ian Watson is one of the most prolific short story writers in contemporary science fiction, with a range and invention that others might envy. In this collection we move from a ghostly occurrence in …
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Ian Watson: Coming of Vertumnus: And Other Stories
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 pow …
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Ian Watson: Great Escape
Predictably unpredictable, normally abnormal.Watson combines science fiction and fantasy into an eclectic mix that includes stories about fallen angels in Hell rebelling and mounting a breakout, abou …
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Ian Watson: Butterflies of Memory
Ian Watson is one of the finest writers of SF and fantasy stories, and Butterflies of Memory is his 10th collection, a selection of stories that are by turns serious and playful, and always wildly im …
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Roberto Quaglia & Ian Watson: Beloved of My Beloved
Tattooed on a woman-sized tumour, these tales, told to it as bedtime stories, are by turns surreal, satiric, erotic, obscene, ingenious, hilarious, and quite, quite brilliant. Together, they combine …
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Ian Watson: Book of Ian Watson
British Science Fiction award winner Ian Watson graces us here with a brilliant new collection of short stories and essays.Though he dazzles the reader with his footwork in the kaleidoscope intensity …
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Ian Watson: Performer Training
Performer Training is an examination of how actors are trained in different cultures. Beginning with studies of mainstream training in countries such as Poland, Australia, Germany, and the United Sta …
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Ian Watson: Performer Training
Performer Training is an examination of how actors are trained in different cultures. Beginning with studies of mainstream training in countries such as Poland, Australia, Germany, and the United Sta …
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Ian Watson: Towards a Third Theatre
Eugenio Barba is one of Europe’s leading theatre directors, at the forefront of experimental and group theatre for more than twenty years. Ian Watson provides the most comprehensive and systematic st …
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€59.74
Ian Watson: Towards a Third Theatre
Eugenio Barba is one of Europe’s leading theatre directors, at the forefront of experimental and group theatre for more than twenty years. Ian Watson provides the most comprehensive and systematic st …
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€60.35
Ian Watson: Song and Democratic Culture in Britain
Originally published in 1983. Song has always been a natural way to record everyday experiences – an expression of celebration, commiseration, complaint and protest. This innovative book is a study o …
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Ian Watson: Song and Democratic Culture in Britain
Originally published in 1983. Song has always been a natural way to record everyday experiences – an expression of celebration, commiseration, complaint and protest. This innovative book is a study o …
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Ian Watson: Hydrology
Hydrology covers the fundamentals of hydrology and hydrogeology, taking an environmental slant dictated by the emphasis in recent times for the remediation of contaminated aquifers and surface-water …
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Ian Watson: Hydrology
Hydrology covers the fundamentals of hydrology and hydrogeology, taking an environmental slant dictated by the emphasis in recent times for the remediation of contaminated aquifers and surface-water …
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Ian Watson & Ian Whates: Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories
Every short story in this wonderfully varied collection has one thing in common: each features some alteration in history, some divergence from historical reality, which results in a world very diffe …
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David W. Aha & Ian Watson: Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development
The 2001 International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR 2001, www.iccbr.org/iccbr01), the fourth in the biennial ICCBR series (1995 in Sesimbra, Portugal; 1997 in Providence, Rhode Island (U …
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Belen Diaz Agudo & Ian Watson: Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development (ICCBR 2012) held in Lyon, France, Sept …
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Ian Whates: Torres de Babel
Prólogo de Ian Watson Traducción de Rodolfo Martínez Un perfume maravilloso que preludia la muerte; una bloguera decidida a lo que haga falta con tal de no perder visitas; un barrio marginal dominado …
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Ian Watson: Royal Air Force at Home
"Military public relations endeavors ultimately seek to build a sense of common interests and aims, and so generally foster good relations with the people they defend, and there in ensure a stab …
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Ian Watson: Royal Air Force at Home
"Military public relations endeavors ultimately seek to build a sense of common interests and aims, and so generally foster good relations with the people they defend, and there in ensure a stab …
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Sandra Alland & Annie Clarkson: Thought X
Science is always telling stories. Whether in the creation myths of evolution or the Big Bang, or in the eureka moments of science history, narrative just as much as metaphor is a key tool in the sci …
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Martyn Bedford & Lisa Blower: Spindles
The relationship between sleep and storytelling is an ancient one. For centuries, sleep has provided writers with a magical ingredient a passage of time during which great changes miraculously occur, …
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Ian Watson & Rosina Weber: Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development, ICCBR 2020, held in Salamanca, Spain*, in June 2020.The 20 full p …
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Ian Watson: London Town
During the 1960s the Krays and the Richardsons dominated London’s criminal underworld. Once they were locked up, the Smiths became the dominant force. But now the Smiths are in trouble: Old Tom Smith …
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Ian Watson: Royal Air Force at Home
"Military public relations endeavors ultimately seek to build a sense of common interests and aims, and so generally foster good relations with the people they defend, and there in ensure a stab …
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€6.35
Stephen Baxter & Lucy Caldwell: Collision
A decade after the discovery of the Higgs Boson, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN still leads the world in the search to uncover what the universe is made of, how it was formed, and what fate may li …
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Donald R. Burleson & Ramsey Campbell: Best New Horror – 25th Anniversary Edition
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