Bøger af Simon Ings

"First published in 2016 in Great Britain by Faber & Faber Ltd."--Title page verso.

Simon Ings' The Smoke is about love, loss and loneliness in an incomprehensible world.

A conspiracy that dates from World War Two starts to unravel in the aftermath of an act of piracy: a genre-defying thriller from a critically acclaimed British author.

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 happened when a handful of impoverished and underemployed graduates, professors and entrepreneurs, collectors and charlatans, bound themselves to a failing government to create a world superpower. And he shows how Stalin's obsessions derailed a great experiment in 'rational government'.

A riveting gothic SF adventure set in a bizarre desert city from one of our most acclaimed authors.

A taut SF thriller set in the dog days of Colonialism and the 20th century, from a renowned writer of literary SF.

A visionary lunar apocalypse from a renowned literary SF author.

The extraordinary debut SF novel that announced Simon Ings as a major new genre talent, reissued.

"The Weight of Numbers" is a big, ambitious novel that posits a world where everything is connected but, post-faith, post-fate, all that is left to guide us is numbers.

Ings' work delves into both the evolution of sight and the evolution of the human understanding of sight. The book presents the natural science, while also addressing the history, philosophy, and mythology of how and why people see the way they do. Illustrations throughout.

Winner of the O2 X Award'A new Heart of Darkness... it is unlikely that there will be a finer written fiction this year' Guardian'A shimmering tapestry, a truly networked work of fiction.' Dally Telegraph