“Like Don DeLillo’s Underworld, Simon Ings’s remarkable new work delivers nothing less than a secret key, a counter-history, of the last sixty years.” -- Mark Costello, author of Big IfThe Weight of Numbers describes the metamo...
Arc, a new publication from the makers of New Scientist, explores the future through cutting-edge science fiction and forward-looking essays by some of the world’s most celebrated authors, alongside columns by thinkers and practitioners from the wo...
Futures and fiction from the makers of New Scientist.We're incredible. The lot of of us. The species. We've been throwing the wildest party this planet has ever seen, and right now we're at our most prosperous, most peaceable, most affluent, most hea...
A novel of prodigious scope and ambition, ablaze with imaginative energy and rendered in mesmerizing prose -- complete with polar bear attacks, tsunamis, modern piracy, airship crashes, Cold War intrigue, and a djinnOn May 25, 1928 over the frozen se...
We're running out of planet and we're running out of patience. The party's over and we're looking for the door. But the exits are unmarked. The engines of the world are hidden from us. Ninety-six per cent of the universe is missing and the rest is st...
Simon Ings has written a surreal adventure probing the very fabric of existence, tearing it open to reveal a sometimes horrifying world within. It is a work that will delight any fan of China Mieville.Only a fool would question the strange magics tha...
A mysterious box that he cannot open is all that might save Adam's autistic son as they are plunged into a world of old corruptions and new terrors.In PAINKILLERS, Simon Ings deftly teases out his knotted story that, with its many conventional elemen...
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 cyborgs and invert...