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.
Books
Hot Head
1992
Dead Water
2011
The Smoke
2018
Painkillers
2000
City of the Iron Fish
1994
Hotwire
1996
Wolves
2014
The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Ten
2015
HEADLONG
1999
Stalin and the Scientists
A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953
2016
The Weight of Numbers
2006
A Natural History of Seeing
The Art and Science of Vision
2007
