Books by Simon Ings

The Weight of Numbers

by Simon Ings

(17 reviews)

Winner of the O2 X Award 'Dynamic'-- Daily Telegraph 'Dazzling'-- Guardian 'Ambitious and virtuoso'-- Financial Times 'Unforgettable'-- The Times 'Ingenious... shimmering'-- New Statesman On July 21, 1969 two astronauts set... See More

Dead Water

by Simon Ings

(18 reviews)

25 May, 1928: Over the frozen seas of the Arctic, an airship falls out the sky. Among the survivors is a young scientist on the verge of a discovery that will redefine physics. 3 October 1996: Through the dusty industrial... See More

Vital Signals

by Ken MacLeod

(2 reviews)

A volume of short sharp stories that present alternative or unconsidered visions of the future; stories that draw attention to the potential impact of cutting-edge science and technology on society and humanity. In addition... See More

Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905–1953

by Simon Ings

(132 reviews)

An epic story of courage, genius and terrible folly, this is the first history of how the Soviet Union's scientists became both the glory and the laughing stock of the intellectual world. Simon Ings weaves together what... See More

We, Robots: Artificial Intelligence in 100 Stories

by Simon Ings

(13 reviews)

Artificial intelligence in 100 stories. To ready us for the inevitable, here are 100 of the best short stories ever written - most of them by humans - about artificial intelligence. Simon Ings has assembled anthropomorphic... See More

The Smoke

by Simon Ings

(33 reviews)

Nominated for the 2019 Kitschie Awards for best novel, Simon Ings' The Smoke is about love, loss and loneliness in an incomprehensible world. Humanity has been split into three different species. Mutual incomprehension has... See More

Headlong

by Simon Ings

(15 reviews)

Post-cyberpunk SF that recalls the darkness of M. John Harrison and the wild visual imagination of China Mieville and Hannu Rajaniemi, HEADLONG felt ahead of the curve when first published and now serves to show just why... See More

When It Changed (Science-Into-Fiction)

by Sara Maitland

(8 reviews)

How much of Science Fiction is genuine science? Take away the fantastical clichés of space-travel, time-travel and artificial intelligence, and how much of what remains accurately represents contemporary scientific... See More

Hot Head

by Simon Ings

(28 reviews)

An ambitious SF novel that is at once post-cyberpunk and post-modern. Complex, multi-layered, it combines hard science, tarot and images of late 20th-century Europe to make something utterly original. And introduces a... See More

Hotwire

by Simon Ings

(17 reviews)

A fast-moving cyberpunk thriller set in a world of thinking cities, ruthless corporations and mad orbital AIs. A novel that links the groundbreaking works of William Gibson to the new generation of writers such as Charlie... See More

Wolves

by Simon Ings

(71 reviews)

The new novel from Simon Ings is a story that balances on the knife blade of a new technology. Augmented Reality uses computing power to overlay a digital imagined reality over the real world. Whether it be adverts or... See More

The Wrestler (Comma Singles)

by Simon Ings

A father-to-be takes his wife to a specialist Cuban doctor to perform a delicate operation on their unborn child, and in the process learns about a century's worth of communist genetics. Accompanied by an afterword by the... See More