{"id":1186,"date":"2011-02-10T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simoningsmirror.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/10\/untitled-4"},"modified":"2011-02-10T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T17:09:00","slug":"untitled-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1186","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I edit <a href=\"http:\/\/arcfinity.tumblr.com\/\">Arc<\/a>, a magazine of futures and fiction from the makers of New Scientist. Of my most recent novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/simonings.net\/tag\/deadwater\">Dead Water<\/a>, Martin McGrath wrote: &#8220;He succeeds in getting you to care about what happens to these people and then he beats the living shit out of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I review popular science for The Telegraph and The Guardian, and I&#8217;m working on an anecdotal <a href=\"http:\/\/simonings.net\/what-soviet-science-did-for-us\">history of Soviet science<\/a> under Stalin. Now and again my family let me out long enough to go on research trips like <a href=\"http:\/\/deadwater.posterous.com\/\">this one<\/a>. More often than not, though, my life looks <a href=\"http:\/\/zaum.posterous.com\/\">like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/simoningsmirror.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/img_0289-scaled500.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"Img_0289\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My agent is Peter Tallack at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefactory.co.uk\/\">The Science Factory.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can drop me a line at simonings at gmail dot com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I edit Arc, a magazine of futures and fiction from the makers of New Scientist. Of my most recent novel, Dead Water, Martin McGrath wrote: &#8220;He succeeds in getting you to care about what happens to these people and then &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1186\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}