Watto's Wisdom: Zine and Con Writing
by Ian Watson
Original Appearances

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This is the alphabetical Original Appearances list from the end of the book. The contents list and internal running order are chronological (with one exception for the sake of internal continuity).

Original Appearances

• “April in Paris” first appeared in Vector #114, June 1983, ed. Geoff Rippington.
• “Believing SF” first appeared in Drilkjis #6, April 1982, ed. David Langford and Kevin Smith.
• “The Biggest SF Bookshop in Europe” first appeared in Vector #276, Summer 2014, ed. Alex Bardy, Glyn Morgan and Martin Petto.
• “The Bishop File” first appeared in the Philcon 90 Souvenir Book, November 1990, ed. Darrell Schweitzer.
• “Breakthrough” first appeared as part of a symposium of short essays on this theme in Frontier Crossings, August 1987, edited by Rob Jackson – souvenir book of Conspiracy ’87, the 1987 World SF Convention.
• “British Weather” first appeared in Fisheye #4, Summer 1986, ed. Ian Deeprose and Simon Ings.
• “Characters Must Eat” first appeared in three parts on the Northampton SF Writers Group blog, 17 November 2014 to 16 February 2015.
• “The Crudities of Science Fiction” first appeared in Arena SF #7, March 1978, ed. Geoff Rippington.
• “A Daffodil Jacket, or The Misadventures of Sebastian in Kyiv” first appeared in Celebration: a taster, 2008.
• “Dancing on a Tightrope” first appeared in Australian Science Fiction Review Second Series #22 (vol 4 number 5), December 1989, ed. Janeen Webb and others.
• “Dinah’s Mancunicon Con Report” first appeared on Ian Watson’s website (www.ianwatson.info), 5 April 2016.
• “Down the Mine” first appeared in Arena SF #12, Summer 1981, ed. Geoff Rippington.
• “East Is East” first appeared in Matrix #170, November/December 2004, ed. Tom Hunter.
• “Eyes Wide Shut – A Sort of Review” first appeared in Vector #208, November/December 1999, ed. Tony Cullen.
• “Fantasy City!” first appeared in BFS Journal #15, 2016, edited by Allen Stroud.
• “A Few Much-Needed Inventions” first appeared in The Spang Blah #13, Winter 1970, ed. Jan Howard Finder.
• “From the Oracle’s Mouth” first appeared in Matrix #127, September/October 1997, ed. Chris Terran.
• “Goldilocks and Little Green Men” first appeared on the Northampton SF Writers Group blog, 13 October 2014.
• “H.G. Wells in Timişoara” first appeared in The H.G. Wells Society, the Americas Newsletter, 2004.
• “Hollywood Halloween news from Ian Watson” first appeared on the Northampton SF Writers Group blog, 28 October 2013.
• “How Not to Hide a Dinosaur” first appeared in Novacon 17 Programme Book, October 1987.
• “Hype Hype Hoorah!” first appeared in Vector #108, June 1982, ed. Geoff Rippington.
• “An Idea Is Born” first appeared in Altair #2, August 1998, ed. Robert N. Stephenson and others.
• “The Journey to Chekhov” first appeared in Focus #8, Autumn 1983, ed. Chris Bailey, Dave Swinden and Allan Sutherland.
• “A Lot of Fog” first appeared in Conspiracy Theories, November 1987, ed. Chris Evans.
• “The Masters of the Golden Ball” first appeared in Frontier Crossings, August 1987, edited by Rob Jackson – souvenir book of Conspiracy ’87, the 1987 World SF Convention where the Strugatskis were guests of honour.
• “Me and the Hanover” first appeared in Paragon: The Programme Book, April 2001, edited by John Dowd – souvenir book of Paragon, the 2001 UK Eastercon.
• “Moon versus Sun” first appeared on The Ultimate Adventure Magazine website, 2013; revised for the Northampton SF Writers Group blog, 11 November 2013.
• “The Nuke Standard” first appeared in Science Fiction Review #39, Summer 1981, ed. Richard E. Geis.
• “One Finger at a Time” first appeared in Focus #4, Spring 1981, ed. Chris Evans and Rob Holdstock.
• “Personal Appreciation of John Brunner” first appeared in Readercon 14 Souvenir Book, July 2002, ed. Michael Matthew.
• “Plumbing Stanley Kubrick” first appeared partially in The New Yorker and in Playboy, 1999, then fully in The New York Review of Science Fiction, May 2000, ed. Kevin J. Maroney and others.
• “Read This: The Conscious Ear” first appeared in The New York Review of Science Fiction #96, August 1996, ed. Kevin J. Maroney and others.
• “Read This: The Jew of Linz” first appeared in The New York Review of Science Fiction #126, February 1999, ed. Kevin J. Maroney and others.
• “Review of The Encyclopedia of Fantasy” first appeared in The Bulletin of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Fall 1997.
• “Roots of a Writer” first appeared in Dark Horizons #33, August 1992, ed. Phil Williams.
• “Science Fact and Science Fiction” first appeared heavily cut on the BBC website as part of an sf authors’ symposium, 18 March 2009; text restored for the Northampton SF Writers Group blog, 21 August 2013.
• “Science Fiction, Surrealism, and Shamanism” first appeared in The New York Review of Science Fiction #130, June 1999, ed. Kevin J. Maroney and others.
• “Shrines and Ratholes” first appeared in Vector #117, December 1983, ed. Geoff Rippington.
• “Some Advice for Budding Writers” first appeared on the Northampton SF Writers Group blog, 13 January 2014.
• “Some Cultural Notes and Pest Control” first appeared in Vector #111, December 1982, ed. Geoff Rippington.
• “Stanisław Lem: One British Writer’s Response” first appeared on the Northampton SF Writers Group blog, 10 October 2016.
• “A Tale of Two Fandoms” first appeared in Easterwine: A Fanthology for Seacon ’03, April 2003, ed. Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer.
• “Three Kinds of Close Encounters with Comics” first appeared in Fantasycon 2009 Souvenir Programme, September 2009.
• “Touchstones: ‘Where Ignorant Armies Clash...’” first appeared in Fantasy Review #88, February 1986, ed. Robert A. Collins.
• “A Truly Generous Chap” first appeared in Relapse #20, Autumn 2012, ed. Peter Weston.
• “UFOs, Science, and the Inexplicable” first appeared in Arena SF #11, November 1980, ed. Geoff Rippington.
• “Up the Pole” first appeared in Arena SF #13, 1982, ed. Geoff Rippington.
• “What Is SFWA?” first appeared in Focus #32, November/December 1997, ed. Carol Ann Kerry-Green and Julie Venner.
• “Where would our eternal Roman Empire be without coffee?” first appeared in Shoreline of Infinity #19, Winter 2020/2021, ed. Noel Chidwick (also issued as a story on a coffee mug).
• “With Eyes as Big as Saucers” first appeared in Matrix #128, November/December 1997, ed. Chris Terran.

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