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The Jonah Kit by Ian Watson This science fiction novel, first published in 1975, and the author's second novel (he's now written 20+ besides numerous short stories) could be described as an Arthur C. Clarke story with interesting characters. Evidently the renowned JG Ballard once called Ian Watson 'the most interesting British SF writer of ideas.' What Ian Watson does is to put the reader straight into the mind and thought processes of the principal character, a whale - 'Jonah ' geddit?! But to add to the complicated plot a research project by a Nobel prize winner shows that what we perceive as the Universe is no more than the ghost of the real thing. Signals received indicate it no longer exists. So are the whales from a parallel universe giving humanity just one more chance and has the experiment gone far beyond the boundaries of the known universe? Read 'The Jonah Kit' and be prepared to get into some interesting concepts or just read it as a satisfying SF novel. My favourite Ian Watson novel is 'The Fire Worm' published by Gollancz in 1988 - but that's another story. By the way, Ian Watson has also written the screen story for Spielberg's ‘AI’. Phil Stoyle
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OTHER REVIEWS - June 2002
NEW NOVELS Diplomatic
Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold The
Book Of The Unicorn by Nigel Suckling The
Treason Of Dortrean (The Arrandin Trilogy Book 2) by Marcus Herniman The
Empire Of Fear by Brian Stableford Mediations
On Middle-Earth: New Writings On The Worlds Of J.R.R. Tolkien edited by Karen
Haber Thorns
of Nature edited by Doyle Eldon Wilmoth Jr Richard
Matheson’s The Twilight Zone Scripts Wizardborn
(The Runelords Book 3) Harry
Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone Dark
Thane (The Last Clansman Book 2) by Miller Lau Fortress
Of Grey Ice (Book Two Sword Of Shadows) by J V Jones Paper
Tiger Fantasy Art Gallery edited by Paul Barnett
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this whale ain't no ordinary whale. A mutant, an alien, a bearer
of news, a portent of doom to humans. It and its fellow beings.
Or is it an experiment gone dreadfully wrong? The repercussions
to both man and whale are immense. 
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