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The Gardens of Delight | Ian Watson

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In The Gardens of Delight Ian Watson boldly lands a starship within the hallucinatory terrain of Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Garden of Earthly Delights, a medieval masterpiece which enchants and horrifies all who see it, for the picture shows what looks to be a paradise of pleasure yet it also displays a terrible hell of torments. And so the ship's psychologist, Sean Athlone, and two women companions explore the luxurious landscape of giant fruits and birds and strange towers and naked celebrating people, in quest of the godlike alien intelligence that has transformed a planet according to Bosch's vision, populating it with the colonists from a previous starship.

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The Gardens of Delight | Ian Watson

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Space travellers land on a planet which seems to have modelled on Hieronymous Bosch's picture "The Garden of Earthly Delights".

Unfortunately the author's descriptive powers are not really up to the task he has set himself.

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The Gardens of Delight | Ian Watson

EadieB That‘s a very unique cover! 5y

rwmg @EadieB The top part is the cover. In the book space travellers land on a planet which seems to be based on the famous painting by Hieronymous Bosch which I've put underneath. 5y

EadieB @rwmg Oh I see what you did. Very interesting! 5y

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