Simon Ings is an English novelist and science writer living in
London
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. He was born in July 1965 in
Horndean and educated at
Churcher's College,
Petersfield and at
King's College London
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and
Birkbeck College, London.
Ings has written a number of novels, short prose and articles for national newspapers. He was culture editor at ''
New Scientist
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'' for a while and as of 2021 continues to write for the magazine on cultural subjects.
[For example, ] His non-fiction book ''The Eye: A Natural History'' delved into the science of vision exploring the chemistry, physics and biology of the eye.
Ings has collaborated with
M. John Harrison on short fiction including "The Dead" (1992) and "The Rio Brain". The latter was published as a separate booklet by Night Shade Books and was available only with the limited edition of Harrison's collection ''Things That Never Happen''. He has also collaborated on short fiction with
Charles Stross.
Bibliography
Novels
*''
Hot Head'',
Grafton Books, 1992,
*''
City of the Iron Fish'', Collins, 1994,
*''Hotwire'', Collins, 1995,
*''
Headlong'', HarperCollins, 1999,
*''Painkillers'', Bloomsbury, 2000,
*''The Weight of Numbers'', Atlantic Books, 2006,
*''Dead Water'', Corvus Books/Atlantic Books, 2010,
*''Wolves'',
Gollancz, 2014,
*''The Smoke'', Orion, 2018,
Non-fiction
*''The Eye: A Natural History'', Bloomsbury, 2007,
*''A Natural History of Seeing'', W. W. Norton, 2008,
*''
Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905–1953'', Faber & Faber, 2016,
Selected short fiction
*"The Braining of Mother Lamprey" (1990)
*"The Black Lotus" (1993)
*"Grand Prix" (1993)
*"Volatile" (1995)
*"Open Veins" (1997)
*"Myxamatosis" (2000)
*"Ménage" (2001)
*"Russian Vine" (2001)
*"Myxomatosis" (2001)
*"Menage" (2001)
*"The Convert" (2002)
*"Elephant" (2003)
*"The Wedding Party" (2007)
*"Zoology" (2009)
References
External links
Simon Ings's own Web site*
*
ttps://web.archive.org/web/20140201224219/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/story-behind-wolves-by-simon-ings Story Behind Wolves – Online by Simon Ings
1965 births
Living people
People educated at Churcher's College
Alumni of King's College London
Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London
People from Horndean
English science fiction writers
English male novelists
English male non-fiction writers
British weird fiction writers
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