A press release from Sophie Calder of Gollancz:

From the author of six critically acclaimed works of literature and two influential non-fiction books, Wolves is a science-fiction story exploring a new technology that quickly becomes a personal quest into a secret about a missing mother, a secret that could hide a murder.

The new novel from Simon Ings balances on the knife blade of Augmented Reality: an innovative technology that 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 longer as it appears to you, it is as it is imagined by someone else.

Wolves follows two friends who are working at the cutting edge of Augmented Reality. When they are offered backing to take the idea and make it into the next global entertainment they realise that wolves hunt in this imagined world. And the wolves might be them…

Simon Ings’s latest work is not a dry analysis of how a technology might change us, but a chilling literary dystopia and psychological murder mystery for those who love Iain Banks and J.G. Ballard.

Simon Ings’s non-fiction book The Eye: A Natural History delved into the science of vision exploring the chemistry, physics and biology of the eye. Ings writes for New Scientist magazine on new technologies and is the editor of Arcfinity magazine (a successful quarterly magazine from the New Scientist that covers both fiction and science). He was born in 1965 and lives in London.

The Society of Illustrators has awarded a gold medal for the beautiful illustration cover of Wolves. Gollancz are re-launching Simon Ings’s backlist in a collectable set of paperbacks designed by the same award-winning illustrator, Jeff Alan Love: Hot Head, Hotwire, City of Fish, Painkillers, Headlong (Feb – June 2014).

Wolves by Simon Ings
Published on 16 January 2014 by Gollancz
9780575119734 – Paperback/eBook £14.99