Lisa Tuttle's obituary for the remarkable British SF writer, Ian Watson https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/15/ian-watson-obituary

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Born this day: 04/20/1943 (d. 04/13/2026)
Ian Watson, British SF writer. His debut The Embedding (1973) won the Campbell Memorial Award, fusing Chomskyan linguistics, Amazon myth and alien contact.

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Le décès de l'écrivain de science-fiction Ian Watson...

Il était l'auteur de l'immense roman l'Enchassement...

Qui l'a lu ?

On lui rend hommage sur Actusf.

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Wczoraj, 13 kwietnia 2026 roku w wieku 82 lat zmarł Ian Watson - brytyjski pisarz fantastyki.

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Very sad to learn of Ian Watson’s passing.

I translated one of Ian’s stories to Polish, „The Tale of Trurl and the Great TanGent”, a homage to Stanisław Lem’s Cyberiad.

I think I last saw him in person at Pyrkon in Poznań two years ago.

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