# The Great Escape

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-watson/the-great-escape/9780575114821

JSON version (same data): https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-watson/the-great-escape/9780575114821.json

![The Great Escape](https://quivercdn.com/covers/gateway/ian-watson/the-great-escape_978-05-7511-482-1.jpg?v=2026-05-20%2010%3A04%3A32)

- Book: [The Great Escape](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-watson/the-great-escape) ([The Great Escape.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-watson/the-great-escape.md))
- Authors: [Ian Watson](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-watson)
- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7511-482-1
- Published: 2011-09-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Predictably unpredictable, normally abnormal. Watson combines science fiction and fantasy into an eclectic mix that includes stories about fallen angels in Hell rebelling and mounting a breakout, about the inconvenience of keeping aging parents in your brain instead of a nursing home, about Jesus' immortal brother as solo passenger on the first starship, about alien coffins bombarding the solar system, about right-wing U. S. militias stealing a quantum computer to commit nuclear blackmail, about a computer games designer haunted by the cyber-ghost of his murdered wife, about frozen heads and strange mind-changes, and how a cake decorator defeats a vampire with a sweet tooth. De-evolution, treasure-hunting via hang glider, dark animal fantasies, humanity as hive-entity, Hercules Poirot on a starship - Watson takes the strange, the eerie the weird, mixes his seasoned writing skills, and produces a potpourri of the fantastic. These nineteen stories are sure to amuse, bemuse and entertain.