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.
- ISBN10 1904853455
- ISBN13 9781904853459
- Publish Date 21 September 2007 (first published 3 July 1980)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 January 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Immanion Press
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240
- Language English