Simon Ings

The Future Is Ourselves The world is rapidly changing. We surf future-shock every day, as the progress of technology races ever on. Increasingly we are asking: how do we change to live in the world to come? Whether it’s climate change, inundated... Lire la suite

En 2006, la police anglaise découvre les corps de cinquante-huit clandestins ensevelis dans la vase d'une plage de Portsmouth. C'est sur la base de cet incident que Simon Ings évoque, dans ce stupéfiant roman, les histoires de ceux qui y sont, de... Lire la suite

Les Cartes du monde, c'est l'inverse du destin.
En 2006, la police anglaise découvre 58 corps ensevelis dans la vase d'une plage de Portsmouth. Il s'agit de clandestins morts accidentellement durant leur transport, sept ans plus tôt.
C'est sur... Lire la suite

On 21 July 1969, two astronauts set foot on the moon; far below, in ravaged Mozanbique, a young revolutionary, hailed as the saviour of his country, is murdered by a parcel bomb. From thiese two unconnected events, Simon Ings has woven a great... Lire la suite

Nominated for the 2019 Kitschie Awards for best novel, 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... Lire la suite

**An astronaut returns to Earth after a 10-year mission to find a utopian society he hardly recognizes in this classic science fiction novel by the author of Solaris. “[Lem’s] marvelous, absorbing and often hilarious books make our weary universe... Lire la suite

A conspiracy that dates from World War Two starts to unravel in the aftermath of an act of piracy: a genre-defying thriller from a critically acclaimed British author. Off the coast of Sri Lanka, a tramp steamer is seized by pirates. The captain has... Lire la suite

Einst hatte Ajay eine wunderbare Zukunft vor sich: Er entwickelte intelligente Städte für die Haag-Agentur - zuerst Delhi, anschließend Mailand. Doch dann wird er dazu verleitet, seine Auftraggeber zu verraten und für eine Stadt zu arbeiten, die... Lire la suite

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... Lire la suite

"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 If The Weight of Numbers describes the metamorphosis of three people:... Lire la suite