Christopher A. Sims

Christopher A. Sims was born in Ohio in 1979. He received his BA in English from The Ohio State University and his MA and PhD in English Literature from Ohio University, specializing in Post-World War II British and American Fiction.

His first book, Tech Anxiety, uses Martin Heidegger's later writings on technology to read the representation of the human relationship to technology and artificial intelligences in four SF novels: Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, William Gibson's Neuromancer, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas.

He is currently a post-doctoral fellow at Ohio University and working on his second monograph-length work, which is a study of four post-apocalyptic novels: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and Walter Miller Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz.