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Ian Watson (author)

British science fiction writer (born 1943)

Ian Watson

Born (1943-04-20) 20 April 1943 (age 81)
United Kingdom
OccupationAuthor, writer
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction

Ian Watson (born 20 April 1943)[1] is a British science fiction writer. He lives in Gijón, Spain.

Life

In 1959, Watson worked as an accounts clerk at Runciman's, a Newcastle shipping company. The experience was not particularly satisfying.[2]

Watson graduated in English Literature from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1963; in 1965 he earned a research degree in English and French 19th-century literature.

Watson lectured English in Tanzania (1965–67)[3] and Tokyo (1967–70), and taught Future Studies at the Birmingham Polytechnic from 1970 to 1976. After 1976 he devoted himself to his career as a professional writer.[4]

His first novel, The Embedding, winner of the Prix Apollo in 1975,[5] is unusual for being based on ideas from generative grammar; the title refers to the process of center

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Ian Watson may refer to:

  • Ian Watson (author) (born 1943), British science fiction author
  • Ian Watson (basketball) (1949–1981), Australian Olympic basketball player
  • Ian Watson (cricketer) (born 1947), English cricketer
  • Ian Watson (director), Australian filmmaker, director of several episodes of 2014 TV series ANZAC Girls
  • Ian Watson (footballer, born 1944), English footballer
  • Ian Watson (footballer, born 1960), English footballer for Sunderland
  • Ian Watson (priest) (born 1950), Archdeacon of Coventry
  • Ian Watson (politician) (1934–2023), Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons
  • Ian Watson (rugby league) (born 1976), Welsh rugby league footballer
  • Ian Watson (ice hockey), ice hockey goaltender
  • Iain Watson, British journalist and BBC political correspondent

Ian Watson was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1962, has traveled widely and currently lives in London. Having no known connection to the well-known science fiction writer of the same name, Ian has worked in the field of alternative health and wellbeing since becoming interested in herbal medicine and flower essences as a teenager. He qualified as a homeopath in 1988 and was the co-founder of The Lakeland College, a homeopathic training school in the U.K. His first book 'A Guide to the Methodologies of Homeopathy' is a firm favorite amongst students and practitioners, and is required reading at many homeopathic schools. He then produced an edited seminar transcript called 'Aspects of Homeopathy-Musculo-Skeletal Problems', containing many clinical hints and observations on this subject. A collaboration with Rana Chalabi, an artist friend based in Cairo, led to the publication of 'The Tao of Homeopathy', a beautifully-illustrated exploration of the homeopathic and taoist philosophies. His most recent work is titled 'The Homeopathic Miasms-A Modern V

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