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The Embedding Ian Watson

The Embedding By Ian Watson

The Embedding by Ian Watson


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Summary

A cutting-edge novel about the nature of communication and what it means to be human.

The Embedding Summary

The Embedding by Ian Watson

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 linguistics, and is driven by a searching analysis of the nature of communication. Fiercely intelligent, energetic and challenging, it immediately established Watson as a writer of rare power and vision, and is now recognized as a modern classic.

The Embedding Reviews

Enthralling . . . It gave one the sense of being led very near to the brink of profundity, even revelation

Fast, invigorating . . . anthropology, linguistics, despoliation of the environment, consciousness-raising drugs, space travel, alien contact, the CIA, you name it. Watson writes with energy and panache - Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels

The most impressive first sf novel to appear in the seventies

Brilliantly attempts to communicate a precarious truth about what we think is actuality. The effect is quite hallucinating - The Times

The most spectacular thing in science fiction since the astounding Solaris - The Spectator

Ambitious and compelling - Daily Telegraph

One of the most thought-provoking shudders of the year - The Times

About Ian Watson

Ian Watson (1943 - )Ian Watson was born in England in 1943 and graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a first class Honours degree in English Literature. He lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish SF with Roof Garden Under Saturn for the influential New Worlds magazine in 1969. He became a full-time writer in 1976, following the success of his debut novel The Embedding. His work has been frequently shortlisted for the Hugo and Nebula Awards and he has won the BSFA Award twice. From 1990 to 1991 he worked full-time with Stanley Kubrick on story development for the movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence, directed after Kubrick's death by Steven Spielberg; for which he is acknowledged in the credits for Screen Story. Ian Watson lives in Spain.

Additional information

NGR9781473222670
9781473222670
1473222672
The Embedding by Ian Watson
New
Paperback
Orion Publishing Co
2017-10-19
272
Short-listed for John W Campbell Award 1974 (UK)
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