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SF writer Dean Ing, 89, died July 21, 2020 at home in Ashland OR. He was best known for his technothrillers and near-future survivalist novels.
Ing was born June 17, 1931 in Austin TX. He served in the US Air Force from 1951-55, graduated from Fresno State University in 1956, earned a master’s at San Jose State University in 1970, and got his doctorate at the University of Oregon in 1974. Ing worked for many years as an engineer, and also taught college.
Ing’s first work of genre interest was “Tight Squeeze” in
Astounding (1955), and he began to publish regularly starting in the late 1970s. “Devil You Don’t Know” (1978) was a Hugo and Nebula Award finalist. Some of his short fiction is collected in