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The Fire Worm
Ian Watson

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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 1988 by Ian Watson
First e-reads publication 1999
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ISBN 0-7592-0738-0

Author Biography
Born in England in 1943, Ian WatsonтАЩs first novel The Embedding appeared in 1973, placing second in
the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and winning the French Prix Apollo, establishing WatsonтАЩs
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 at
Oxford, then lectured in East Africa and Tokyo. Africa awakened him politically to the Third World.
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 (тАЬJingling GeordieтАЩs HoleтАЭ) which Interzone readers
simultaneously voted the best and worst story of the year. He subsequently published Books of Mana
consisting of LuckyтАЩs Harvest (1993) and The Fallen Moon (1994) inspired by Finnish mythology, and
the sf technothrillers Hard Questions (1996) and Oracle (1997).
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,

AnтАЩ AaтАЩll tell ye aall an aaful story,

Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,

AnтАЩ AaтАЩll tell ye тАЩboot the worm.

Contents
Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four
Chapter Five