Ian Watson

MYSTERY PAINTING OF NIETZSCHE !

Early in January 2025 an invitation comes by email from Italian portraitist Luca del Baldo, not known to me previously (I’m vastly ignorant) — for me to be portrayed in oils based on a suitable photograph… and an adventure starts… Luca tells me how a prev…

Turin/Torino is tucked up against the Alps in the ‘foot of the mountain’ region of Piedmont.

The Monster Tour, also known as: My Promo Tour of España for The Monster, The Mermaid, and Doctor Mengele (NewCon Press, UK) now in Spanish as El Monstruo, La Sirena, y el Doctor Mengele (translated by Cristina Macía) (Colección PlanB, Dolmen Editorial) k…

A week ago (on 6th October 2022) I officially became Spanish, so we celebrated by visiting our chums Carmen and Carlos in their ingenious high-tech house craned into position as flat-pack in a now lush garden at the little town of Cabezón de la Sal in our…

(NB: All Hungarian names are family name second, the opposite of local custom.)

Lapped by the Indian Ocean west of Zanzibar lies Dar es Salaam, ‘Haven of Peace’.

March 2022, Mission: Write a story inspired by a visit to CERN in Geneva!

A kindly enquiry from a fan reminds me that I did an interview with the Warhammer 40K fan site The Bolthole (thanks to Simon Howers) which caused me to discover some old scribbles of mine indicating a few events which might happen in a sequel to my Chaos…

As my contribution to Fuck Statues Week I post here my tale about fucking statues (which first appeared in Asimov’s in 2005).