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Simon Ings

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Simon Ings is the author of nine novels. He spent some years editing New Scientist's culture pages, and now contributes to New Scientist, the Telegraph, Times, Financial Times and Spectator.  His latest non-fiction book is Engineers of Human Souls, about four 20th-century writers and the dictators who were their patrons. His book Stalin and the Scientists was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford award. He maintains a minimal presence as @simonings on X/Twitter. His website is simonings.net

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