Simon Ings, Author . Black Cat $14 (422p) ISBN 978-0-8021-7030-9
Math whiz Anthony Burden has anonymous alley sex at the height of the London blitz, which produces Saul Cogan, an eventual jaded-idealist-turned-human-trafficker. The botched childhood abduction of Stacey Chavez—eventually an epileptic,...
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Simon Ings. Gollancz (Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $14.95 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-575-11987-1
The advent of augmented reality occurs amid doomsday preparation in British author Ings’s dark near-future bildungsroman. In an unnamed European city, friends Conrad and Ralf design wearable technology that overlays 3-D images onto reality. Some...
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Simon Ings. Gollancz (Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $14.95 trade paper (278p) ISBN 978-0-575-13061-6
More than 20 years after its first U.K. publication, Ings’s small but dense debut novel gets a well-deserved U.S. release. In the near future (from the perspective of 1992, when the book was written), the global economy is reshuffling as the...
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Simon Ings. Atlantic Monthly, $28 (528p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2598-9
English novelist and science writer Ings (The Eye: A Natural History) takes an expansive look at scientific life in the Soviet Union from the waning years of the Russian Empire to Stalin’s death. Faced with grave challenges in the immediate...
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