Simon Ings is an English

England

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 novelist and science writer living in London

London

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. He was born in July 1965 in Horndean

Horndean

Horndean is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 8 miles north of Portsmouth.The nearest railway station is 2.2 miles southeast of the village at Rowlands Castle....

 and educated at Churcher's College

Churcher's College

Churcher's College is an English co-educational independent, fee-paying school which is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference . The senior school is located in the market town of Petersfield, Hampshire with the junior school in nearby Liphook...

, Petersfield

Petersfield

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 and at King's College London

King's College London

King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...

 and Birkbeck College

Birkbeck, University of London

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, London.

He has written a number of novels, short prose and articles for national newspapers. Much of his fictional writing is considered to be cyberpunk

Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk is a postmodern and science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life." The name is a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk, and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk," published in 1983...

 merging science fiction with surrealism. His non-fiction book 'The Eye: A Natural History' delved into the science of vision exploring the chemistry, physics and biology of the eye in conjunction with subjective perception.

Novels

• Hot Head, Grafton Books, 1992, ISBN 0-586-21496-8
• City of the Iron Fish, Collins, 1994, ISBN 0-00-647653-8
• Hotwire, Collins, 1995, ISBN 0-00-647724-0
• Headlong
  Headlong (Ings novel)
  Headlong is a 1999 science fiction novel by English author Simon Ings. It is Ings' fourth novel and depicts the struggle of a man trying to find his humanity his previously enhanced senses are removed. A review of the novel in New Scientist praised it as "mature and thoughtful".- Plot summary...
  
  , HarperCollins, 1999, ISBN 0-00-647725-9
• Painkillers, Bloomsbury, 2000, ISBN 0-7475-4787-4
• The Weight of Numbers, Atlantic Books, 2006, ISBN 1-84354-463-6
• Dead Water, Corvus Books/Atlantic Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84887-888-4

Short fiction of note

• "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)

External links

• Simon Ings's own Web site
• Calgary Herald Interview