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It took a few years
before a good and brave publisher, Newcon Press, dared to publish and offer to the public this amazing and (for some) outrageous book, but now it's out there and you'd better get one copy before the New Politically Correct Inquisition will ban it from existence and burn it into oblivium again.

This is what one of the many publishers who didn't dare to publish it had to say about this book:

"God's teeth. What a rococo imagination you [Ian]and Roberto have got. Such is my depravity, I romped through it with palsied fascination, wincing and laughing. But as a publishing proposition it is, as you surely know, dauntingly difficult even for a publishing house with a taste for the unusual. It is extraordinary, but not for us."

A few of the component stories have appeared in New Writings in the Fantastic, Helix, Rudy Rucker's Flurb [Beloved Vampire of the Blood Comet, which you may read online as an appetizer], and one in Claude Lalumière's Lust for Life anthology has been reprinted in the Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica N. 7. Another story has appeared in the Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica N. 9 but most of the stories are absolutely new to the public.

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The Beloved of My Beloved

Ian Watson & Roberto Quaglia
Roberto Quaglia & Ian Watson

"A masterpiece of post-New Weirdism"

"Probably the most scandalous book of the past few generations"

"These tales of perverted love and obsession, detailing bizarre sexual practices and pathological states of mind, are told with lip-smacking gusto and spot-on satire. "

Eric Brown
The Guardian (read the whole review)

Also literature sometimes has its liturgies. Pilgrimage to Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford is very popular among erudite people. Scenes like this one are very common in Stratford.

And it's no surprise to see intelligent young ladies getting amazed by The Beloved of My Beloved in front of Shakespeare's birthplace as soon as they're done with their dutiful ritual tribute to the dead poet.

BSFA AWARD 2009 WINNER !

"The Beloved Time of Their Lives" by Roberto Quaglia & Ian Watson

has won the prestigious
British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Award
for best short story of 2009

which you are free to read online by clicking here.

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Following the victory at the BSFA Awards, "The Beloved Time of Their Lives" has been translated in several languages. In Japan it was listed as a finalist of the Seiun Awards.

Successful presentation in Italy of
The Beloved of My Beloved

Eurocon 2009, Fiuggi, Italy, March 28th, 2009

Full video of the presentation of the book "The Beloved of my Beloved" in Fiuggi

a surreal improvised speech by Ian Watson and Roberto Quaglia

NOW ENGLISH SUBTITLE AVAILABLE!
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Highly recommended: Enjoy the clip!
(don't worry if some sentences (1,5%) are spoken in Italian
98% of the talk is in English, and only 0,5% in other languages)

You may also download the 40 minutes video in the following formats

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Recorded during SF Convention Eurocon, Hotel Ambasciatori, Fiuggi, Italy
Saturday March 28th, 2009

Eastercon book launch in Bradford
The Beloved of My Beloved

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Recorded during SF Convention Eastercon, Bradford, UK
Saturday April 11th, 2009

Interview on the Italian TV Channel RAI3

Component stories of this book have been published in...

The story
"The Penis of my Beloved"
has been published in
Claude Lalumière's
Lust for Life anthology

The story
"The Penis of my Beloved"
has been published in the
Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica N. 7

The story
"The Beloved of the Gigolem"
has been published in the
Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica N. 9

The story
"The Penis of my Beloved"
has been re-published in the
Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New Erotica

The story
"The Grave of my Beloved"
has been published in
the SF magazine
Weird tales

The story
"The Grave of my Beloved"
has been published
in Italian in the SF Magazine
Robot

The story
"The Grave of my Beloved"
has been published
in French in the SF Magazine
Galaxies

The story
"The Beloved Time of their Lives"
has been published
in Hungarian in the SF Magazine
Galaktika

The story
"Beloved Vampires of the Blood Comet"
has been published in
Rudy Rucker's
Flurb SF Magazine online

The story
"The Mas Extinction of my Beloved"
has been published in
the SF online magazine
Helix

The story
"The Moby Clitoris of His Beloved"
has been published in
the SF online magazine
Clarkesworld

The story
"The Grave of my Beloved"
has been published
in Romanian in the SF Magazine
Helion Almanah 2007

The story
"The Beloved Time of their Lives"
has been published
in Russian in the Russian SF Magazine
ESLI

The story
"The Beloved Time of their Lives"
has been published
in Spanish in the Argentinian SF Magazine
AXXON

The story
"The Colonostomy of my Beloved"
has been published in
John Grant's
New Writings in the Fantastic anthology

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Different people have notoriously different habits connected with books. Abbie's way to enjoy The Beloved of my Beloved might scandalize some puritan, but who can really blame her for her taste? Don't watch this HD video if you think that you'd probably find Abbie's uninhibited approach tasteless. If you dare, this is the link to follow. But you have been warned.

Has Global Warming a dark side - just like the Star Wars' Force? And could it be that the Dark Side of Global Warming is actually the cool one, due to the intrinsic inevitability of the most unlikely paradoxes? Yasmine may give you a clue on that. Don't watch this HD video if don't have an expanded and uninhibited taste for the unusual. If you dare, this is the link to follow. But you have been warned.


Abbie took her Beloved Book to Colossus, the world's first computer ever, and what happened then made history. Click on the picture for all details of this encounter.	Brandy thought that Buckingham Palace needed a bit of mood restyling. So she went there dressed with her most Beloved T-shirt and... Click on the picture for the whole story.

Channeled by the The Beloved of My Beloved, a sexy spectre is hunting Stowe. Click on the picture and you will follow this spectre all around surreal Stowe.	Would it be possible that The Beloved of My Beloved isn't read in Churchill's studio in Warwick castle? Obviously not. Lick... er, click on the picture for learning more.

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