TY - ABST T1 - “The 1000 Year Reich” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ian Watson (b. 1943) ED - Nick Gevers KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which three powers vie with each other, the remnant of the US, the Japanese, and the German Reich, each with a settlement on the moon. Reich refers both to the German Reich and Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957).

JF - Squirrel, Reich, and Lavender. Bonus Stories PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in his The 1000 Year Reich and Other Stories ([Weston, Eng].: NewCon Press, 2016), 15-34 with an author’s note on 34. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Faith Without Teeth” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ian Watson (b. 1943) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which everyone is expected to voluntarily have their teeth removed so that everyone is equal.

JF - Solaris Rising 3: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in his The 1000 Year Reich and Other Stories ([Weston, Eng]: NewCon Press, 2016), 189-199 with an author’s note on 199. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Orgasmachine Y1 - 2010 A1 - Ian Watson (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which women are manufactured to the specifications of their owners. Two revolt and free all women.

PB - Newcon Press CY - Alconbury, Weston, Eng. N1 -

According to the author, the novel was written in the early seventies, published in French as Orgasmachine. Trans. Michel Pétris. Paris: Éditions Champ Libre, 1976 and in Japanese, revised, as Orugasumashin. Trans. Yutaka Ooshima. Tokyo: Koamagajin, 2001. Part was published as “Custom-Built Girl.” Cybersex [Subtitle on the cover Aliens, Neurosex and Cyborgasms]. Ed. Richard Glyn Jones (London: Raven Books, 1996). U.S. ed. (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996), 307-32.

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Illus. Judy Watson

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Published in French as Orgasmachine. Trans. Michel Pétris. Paris: Éditions Champ Libre, 1976 and in Japanese, revised, as Orugasumashin. Trans. Yutaka Ooshima. Tokyo: Koamagajin, 2001. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Long Stay" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Ian Watson (b. 1943) ED - George Mann KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The Luton-Stansted car park stretches for twenty-six miles between the two airports with crops growing among the cars. The story focuses on people who got stuck in the car park and have ended up living there permanently.

JF - The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume Three PB - Solaris CY - Nottingham, Eng. N1 -

 Rpt. in his The 1000 Year Reich and Other Stories ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 189-99 with an author’s note on 199. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Byrds" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) ED - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) ED - Ian Watson (b. 1943) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story, which is about people who use technology, such as anti-gravity belts, to emulate birds, is set in a future with restrictions on population size that encourages the elderly to be euthanized. The Department of Rest establishes how much the population has to fall and sends out a monthly brochure Your Choice for Peace to senior citizens with a form in which that are asked to “describe all that is good about their life, and a few of the things which bug them. At the end of the form is a box in which the oldster indicates his preference for Life or Peace. If he does not check the box, or if he fails to complete the form, it is assumed that he has chosen Peace, and the send the Wagon for him” (189). This is a very small part of the story. 

JF - Changes: Stories of Metamorphosis. An Anthology of Speculative Fiction About Startling Metamorphoses, Both Psychological and Physical PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Northern Stars. The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant (New York: Tor, 1994), 188-99.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gardens of Delight Y1 - 1980 A1 - Ian Watson (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia based on the Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) painting, The Gardens of Earthly Delights, which is in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The novel has three sections similar to the triptych, the Gardens, which open and close the novel. Hell, and Eden. 

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Timescape, 1982.

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