"A truly networked work of fiction ... In the corner of the
literary landscape in which a few of us sit, hunting for ways to
work ever exciting and dynamic thinking from the sciences into the
contemporary novel, The Weight of Numbers is extremely good news.
It's a dynamic, innovative, and compelling book that brings into
focus some of the most interesting trends in contemporary fiction."
-- James Flint
"A Scheherazade of a novel, executed with scope, daring, and humor.
The Weight of Numbers is unerringly well written, and engrossing to
the last page." -- Lionel Shriver
"Dazzling, admirable narrative nerve ... Ings stalks his targets
with the relentlessness of a bounty hunter, until he arrives at a
new heart of darkness.... As the story cuts through time its
lineage emerges: from the colonial excursions of Conrad and Celine
to the anthropological objectivity of J. G. Ballard; to Neal
Stephenson's Cryptonomicon; to the askance mix of fact and fiction
in DeLillo.... It is unlikely there will be a finer-written fiction
this year." -- Chris Pettit
"Ings weaves an ingenious, shimmering web of contiguity and
chance.... A feat of meticulous plotting ... Ings's project is not
dissimilar from David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, with which it has
been compared." -- Alistair Sooke
"Like Don DeLillo's Underworld, Simon Ings's remarkable new work
delivers nothing less than a secret key, a counterhistory, of the
last sixty years. Ings's fiction is vivid and swift, a thing of
scenes and people, smugglers and astronauts, spies and
revolutionaries. But beyond the topical excitements lies something
even grander--a vision of our culture a death ship. The Weight of
Numbers is amazing." -- Mark Costello
"One of the most exciting--and relevant--books of the last year.
Booker material, for sure."
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