Ings

The only novel I've read that comes anywhere near to asking the same kind of question with the same kind of grit and honesty is Simon Ings 'City of The Iron Fish.

MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 4) 2009

David Ings, BathNot if you keep banging on about it.

Notes and queries: From Tasers to choc cake – what every time-traveller should carry; Argus – Wishbone Ash's finest hour; The mighty atoms 2011

Simon Ings: an Eighties Interzone-era author, he's probably the least 'current' of the lot and hasn't published any sf in several years, but in my opinion if you haven't read Ings, you haven't read sf.

Archive 2010-05-01 2010

Simon Ings: an Eighties Interzone-era author, he's probably the least 'current' of the lot and hasn't published any sf in several years, but in my opinion if you haven't read Ings, you haven't read sf.

SF moribund, my arse. 2010

Zen In Darkness sent this in: a negative review by Simon Ings an English novelist and science writer living in London of Kaku's book, "Physics Of The Impossible".

Archive 2008-04-01 2008

Zen In Darkness sent this in: a negative review by Simon Ings an English novelist and science writer living in London of Kaku's book, "Physics Of The Impossible".

A Counter 2008

The City Of Iron Fish, Simon Ings read because I much enjoyed a previous Ings work, Headlong – oh, gods, spare me another post-apocalyptic SF/fantasy high-mythic fable-style hybrid.

How Soon They Forget… « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2008

The description made this sound like a darker Cloud Atlas, with characters intersecting through world politics and science and warfare, but I found the intersections ultimately coincidental and unsatisfying, and Ings' cynical take on world affairs wasn't as compelling as David Mitchell's compassionate humanism.

Honeymoon Hiatus, Pocket Reviews, and a Romantic Question Book Nerd 2007

I may have been put off first, though, by the intense and graphic violence of the narrative -- much of it takes place in WWII Europe and war-torn contemporary Africa, and Ings is not concerned for the squeamish.

Honeymoon Hiatus, Pocket Reviews, and a Romantic Question Book Nerd 2007

The description made this sound like a darker Cloud Atlas, with characters intersecting through world politics and science and warfare, but I found the intersections ultimately coincidental and unsatisfying, and Ings' cynical take on world affairs wasn't as compelling as David Mitchell's compassionate humanism.

Archive 2007-06-22 Book Nerd 2007