City of the Iron Fish
By Simon Ings
1994
First Published
3.11
Average Rating
292
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Citizens of a landlocked city celebrate the sea. There is the tang of salt in the air, and, though surrounded by desert, it is a well-watered municipality. Every 12 years, the ceremony of hanging and stuffing the Iron Fish magically alters the layout of the "bubble city" - but not its isolation.
Avg Rating
3.11
Number of Ratings
147
5 STARS
11%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
31%
2 STARS
18%
1 STARS
11%
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Author
Simon Ings
Author · 12 books
I began by writing science fiction stories, novels and films, before disappearing down various rabbit-holes: perception (The Eye: A Natural History), 20th-century radical politics (The Weight of Numbers), the shipping system (Dead Water) and augmented reality (Wolves). I co-founded and edited Arc magazine, a digital publication about the future, before joining New Scientist magazine as its arts editor. Now I eke out a freelance living in possibly the coldest flat in London, writing arts reviews for the newspapers. My latest non-fiction is Stalin and the Scientists, a history of Soviet science. My latest novel is The Smoke.
