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| '''Ian Watson''' is fucking crazy. He's also brilliant. He lives in Spain, spends most of his time at British book conventions and mostly talks at high speed about [[What|esoteric weird stuff that would turn Dan Brown's shit into chalk.]]
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| From a [[/tg/|fa/tg/uy]] perspective, he's the bloke who wrote the trippy primordial morass from which Warhammer 40K evolved before [[Black Library]] was a thing. He wrote ''[[Space Marine]]'' in 1993, three years after [[Jaq Draco|Inquisitor]], also by Ian Watson (later re-named Draco), and Deathwing. No one had a fucking clue what they where doing, so we get Squats, Zoats and lasgun-wielding Space Marines. We also get Space Marines out-farting each other with their specially engineered arseholes. It's weird. It's amazing. <s>It's totally not canon, whatever the fuck that means.</s> And if you want it to be canon, it basically is.
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| Ian has continued to write, of course, and he's got a shelf full of awards for writing weird shit. For example, his recent novel, ''The Beloved of My Beloved'', (co-written with Italian surrealist Roberto Quaglia) features [[Slaanesh|cloned clitorises, necrophile clones and lots of bum-sex]]. His collection of short stories, The ''1000 Year Reich'', returns to the theme of Space Marines. It's nothing that [[Black Library]] would ever publish.
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| When one Stanley Kubrick asked one Steven Spielberg [https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/24/movies/film-a-director-s-journey-into-a-darkness-of-the-heart.html to consider directing ''A.I Artificial Intelligence''], said decision was based on a 90-page treatment done by Watson under Kubrick's supervision. So he had to be doing something right.
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| [http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0094.html Watson also sent a copy of Inquistor to Kubrick, who according to Ian, considered it for "his next movie" '']
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| He is not [[Aaron Dembski-Bowden]]. Though ADB would be stoked if he was.
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