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Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned writers - once the faithful servants of authority - into figures of political consequence. Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose poetry became a blueprint for fascism in Italy. Maxim Gorky, dramatist of the working class and Stalin's cheerleader. Joseph Goebbels, a hopeless n...

Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned writers - once the faithful servants of authority - into figures of political consequence. Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose poetry became a blueprint for fascism in Italy. Maxim Gorky, dramatist of the working class and Stalin's cheerleader. Joseph Goebbels, a hopeless n...

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A special edition of Simon Ings's selection of the 100 best short stories on artificial intelligence.

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Simon Ings' The Smoke is about love, loss and loneliness in an incomprehensible world. Simon Ings' THE SMOKE is about love, loss and loneliness in an incomprehensible world. Humanity has been split into three different species. Mutual incomprehension has fractured the globe. As humans race to be the first of their kind to reach the stars, another Great War looms.For you, that means returning to Yorkshire and the town of your birth, where facto...

Originally published in London by Gollancz in 2014.

Science fiction author Simon Ings selects 100 of the best short stories on artificial intelligence.

Simon Ings' The Smoke is about love, loss and loneliness in an incomprehensible world. Humanity has been split into three different species. Mutual incomprehension has fractured the globe. As humans race to be the first of their kind to reach the stars, another Great War looms.For you, that means returning to Yorkshire and the town of your birth, where factories churn out the parts for gigantic spaceships. You're done with the pretensions of t...

On 21 July 1969, two astronauts set foot on the moon, far below, in ravaged Mozambique, a young revolutionary, hailed as the saviour of his country, is murdered by a parcel bomb. From these two unconnected events, Simon Ings has woven a great and glittering web.

An eye-opening history of science in the Soviet Union, following the scientists who survived Stalin's rule and helped to reshape the world

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

An ambitious SF novel that is at once post-cyberpunk and post-modern. Complex, multi-layered, it combines hard science, tarot and images of late 20th-century Europe to make something utterly original. And introduces a memorable new heroine to the genre...Malise has a problem. She's come downwell to Earth, but years of space combat have ruined her: her muscles have wasted away, her past is a confused torture of events and her brain is wired to ...

A literary dystopia for fans of Iain Banks and J.G. Ballard.

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Nominated for the 2019 Kitschie Awards for best novel, Simon Ings' The Smoke is about love, loss and loneliness in an incomprehensible world.

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A thriller brimming with incident rendered in mesmerizing prose by of one of our sharpest, most original contemporary British writers.

Scientists throughout history, from Galileo to today's experts on climate change, have often had to contend with politics in their pursuit of knowledge. But in the Soviet Union, where the ruling elites embraced, patronized, and even fetishized science like never before, scientists lived their lives on a knife edge. The Soviet Union had the best-funded scientific establishment in history. Scientists were elevated as popular heroes and lavished ...

Passiamo un decimo della nostra vita da svegli completamente ciechi. Solo l'un per cento di ciò che vediamo è a fuoco nello stesso tempo. Viviamo in un mondo che è sempre mezzo secondo indietro rispetto a quello reale. Le vespe non possono vedere, ma sono in grado di mappare il mondo che le circonda in un modo simile a quello che noi impieghiamo quando ascoltiamo la musica: attraverso relazioni temporali. L'occhio deve sempre essere in movimen...