Ian Watson comes to Brum
07/05/2007 . Source: Jessica Martin 
Ian Watson will be talking to the Birmingham SF Group about 'Artificial Intelligence and Storytelling' on Friday 11th May at 7.45-8pm. Buy Ian Watson in the USA - or Buy Ian Watson in the UK  This will take place at the Britannia Hotel (2nd floor), New Street, Birmingham and costs £3 BSFG members, £4 non-members. Queries: please contact bhamsfgroup@yahoo.co.uk (the secretary).
Born in England in 1943, Ian Watson's first novel The Embedding appeared in 1973, placing second in the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and winning the French Prix Apollo. It's the first SF novel to take modern psycholinguistics as its theme, and a lot of Ian's novels have centred around themes of communication and consciousness, altered perceptions, the evolution of mind, the nature of alien intelligences (including whales and dolphins), and the codes and customs and cultural concoctions by which we structure our lives.
Alchemy, perfumery, costume, cosmology, cake decoration, the history of lighting, the Renaissance art of memory - all is grist for his thirty-odd novels and hundred and fifty or so stories.
A full-time author since 1976, Ian has produced 30 novels and 9 collections of short stories, the most recent of these collections being The Coming of Vertumnus (Gollancz, 1994).
Full details of his life and work are on www.ianwatson.info - which he cordially invites you to visit.
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