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[fangirlnationmag]

The Smoke by Simon Ings Is an Ambitious Take on Love

The Smoke by Simon Ings Is an Ambitious Take on Love

One of the brilliant aspects of the science fiction genre is the willingness to take risks. For better or worse, The Smoke by Simon Ings is the pinnacle of this concept. Set in an alternate universe dystopia, The Smoke plunges readers into a small story about family and love surrounded by classic scifi.

I would lying if I said I was able to breeze through this novel and eat up every moment of…

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[sciencebookaday]

Wolves

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By Simon Ings

Synopsis: A chilling literary dystopia for those who love Iain Banks and J.G. Ballard.

The new novel from Simon Ings is a story that balances on the knife blade of a new technology. Augmented Reality uses computing power to overlay a digital imagined reality over the real world. Whether it be adverts or imagined buildings and imagined people, with Augmented Reality the world is no…

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[gmehn]

100 word review: Wolves, by Simon Ings

This is a troubling book, a dark imagining of a future five minutes from now, or five minutes ago. It’s a portrait of technology entrepreneurs, recalling the heady late 90s Internet boom “before it was cool”, and the heady and terrifying successes that could come about. It’s a story of augmented reality, something a little [...] from http://ift.tt/1xroErW

[itsjustsgme]

Today I bought a book cos it was pretty.

[nellymaus]

My haul from the Gollancz Festival at Waterstones Piccadilly yesterday! I love my job :). Hell yes signed copies ;). And HELL yes staff discount.

[brown-and-son]

William Latham, Human Mutator2 Reflector image in time, 2014, multimedia

Simon Ings review of Automatic Art at the GV Gallery When art changes the rules for science includes a mention of Paul's work in the show.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25946-when-art-changes-the-rules-for-science.html

[viralradio]

They are not cold films, but they do locate their human action in the digital elsewhere, leaving their actors largely inexpressive, their turmoils and triumphs implied through the plot. Told, not shown. The result is strangely hopeful. Revell’s is world of borders and restrictions, by-laws and embargoes. But his people, through the cumulative effect of countless subtle transgressions, have already evaded it. They are not escaping, they have already escaped, to the Other Side.

Dialling out | Simon Ings

A very kind and to-the-point review of Tobias Revell’s ‘The Monopoly of Legitimate Use' by New Scientist cultural editor Simon Ings.

[ecnef]

A bunch of kids on heat, demonstrating their lack of materialism by destroying someone else's stuff. It is an unpleasant reminder that the human world falls apart, not through catastrophe, but from mounting internal failure.

Simon Ings - Wolves pg. 73