Book description
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 to create
a weird and wonderful love story, unlike anything told before. 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 Northamptonshire, England.
