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Hard Questions
Hard Questions
Ian Watson
An [ e - reads ] Book
No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, or
mechanical, including photocopy, recording, scanning or any information storage retrieval system,
without explicit permission in writing from the Author.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's
imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locals or persons, living or
dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright 1996 by Ian Watson
First e-reads publication 1999
www.e-reads.com
ISBN 0-7592-0733-X
Author Biography
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, establishing Watson’s
themes of communication and consciousness, altered perceptions, the evolution of mind, and the nature of
alien intelligence (including whales and dolphins). 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. Brought up in 1950s in Tyneside, he read extensively, daydreamed, and
grew cacti because they seemed like the vegetation of an alien planet. He received a degree in English
from Oxford University, and then lectured in East Africa and Tokyo. Africa awakened him politically to
developing nations. Japan zapped him with Future Shock. In the late 80s he went through a horror phase,
culminating in THE FIRE WORM (1988), a novel developed from a story (“Jingling Geordie’s Hole”)
which Interzone readers simultaneously voted the best and worst story of the year. He subsequently
published BOOKS OF MANA consisting of LUCKY’S HARVEST (1993) and THE FALLEN MOON
(1994) inspired by Finnish mythology, and the science fiction technothrillers HARD QUESTIONS
(1996) and ORACLE (1997).
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Acknowledgements
For assistance and advice I warmly thank John Cramer, Howard Davidson, Bill Froud, Jonathan Vos
Post, Rudy Rucker and Michael Ward. All misuse of their advice is my doing, of course.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
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Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
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Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
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Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
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