Dean Ing
Dean Charles Ing (born June 17, 1931 in Austin , Texas , † July 21, 2020 in Ashland , Oregon ) was an American science fiction and thriller author.
life and career
Dean Ing was an aerospace engineer with the United States Air Force and a university professor with a doctorate in communications. From 1977 he was a full-time author. After the death of science fiction author Mack Reinolds in 1983, Ing was asked to complete several of his unfinished manuscripts. Ing lived in Oregon with his wife .
In his novels, Ing often describes survival techniques in great detail . In his novel Pulling Through he devoted a comparatively long appendix to the subject. In addition to his fictional novels, Ing writes articles for survival magazine PS Letter , published by Mel Tappan. Due to various similarities in the setting, his Ted Quantrill series is a homage to Robert A. Heinlein's Future History .
Works
Novels
Ted Quantrill series
- Systemic Shock (1981)
- Single Combat (1983)
- Wild Country (1985)
L-5 community
- The Lagrangists (1983) with Mack Reynolds
- Trojan Orbit (1985) with Mack Reynolds
Individual novels
- Soft Targets (1979)
- Anasazi (1980)
- Pulling Through (1983)
- The Other Time (1984) with Mack Reynolds
- Home Sweet Home (1984) with Mack Reynolds
- Eternity (1984) with Mack Reynolds
- Mutual Assured Survival (1984) with Jerry Pournelle
- Deathwish World (1986) with Mack Reynolds
- Blood of Eagles (1986)
- The Big Lifters (1988)
- Chernobyl Syndrome (1988)
- The Ransom of Black Stealth One (1989)
- Cathouse (1988)
- Silent Thunder (1991)
- The Nemesis Mission (1991)
- Butcher Bird (1993)
- Spooker (1995)
- Skins of Dead Men (1998)
- Firefight Y2K (2000)
- Loose Cannon (2001)
- The Houses of the Kzinti (2002) with Jerry Pournelle and SM Stirling
- The Rackham Files (2004)
Non-fiction
- Mutual Assured Survival (1984) with Jerry Pournelle
- The Future of Flight (1985) with Leik Myrabo
Web links
- Dean Ing in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Dean Ing at Open Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary
- ↑ John Clute , Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . St. Martin's Press, New York 1993, ISBN 1-85723-124-4
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ing, Dean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ing, Dean Charles (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American science fiction and thriller writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Austin , Texas |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 2020 |
| Place of death | Ashland , Oregon |