Inside the Mind of Ian Spencer

Being an independent author comes with certain expectations. You expect to spend long hours writing, revising, researching, formatting, and occasionally wondering whether anyone outside your immediate family will ever read your book. What you may not expect is the steady stream of strangers arriving in your inbox, each claiming to possess the one service your…

How did a small British sports car manage to beat Ferrari, Porsche, Lotus, and the rest of the Le Mans field at their own game? That is the story I’m currently researching, and the answer will become the foundation of my next novel. At the 1961 24 Hours of Le Mans, the overall victory went…

Sometime in the early 1980s, my friend Adam Klopf introduced me to a band called DEVO. They were weird. Really weird. But somewhere between the strange music, yellow suits, jerky robotic movements, and those ridiculous red hats, I discovered that there was actually an idea behind all of it. DEVO wasn’t just the name of…

My fascination with 3000 RW began when I was a teenager, shortly after I bought my first Sunbeam Alpine. I’ll never forget seeing the car for the first time in Chris McGovern’s book, Alpine: The Classic Sunbeam. The image of that Harrington-bodied Alpine stayed with me. I didn’t simply want to know more about it,…

The character Simone in my Marsborn trilogy shares my niece’s name, so it only seemed right that she receive a complete set of the books for her birthday. Simone was a big help while I was writing the trilogy. She loves to read, and we had a lot of fun talking about the story, sharing…

Last night was one of those evenings that reminds us why we started the Dreams of Future Past podcast. We recorded two new episodes, each exploring a very different chapter of history. The first takes a look at the enduring appeal of James Bond, the cars, the gadgets, the technology, and the optimism about the…

Welcome to Ian Spencer Books. This website is where you’ll find news about my latest books, upcoming releases, the Dreams of Future Past podcast, and the projects I’m currently working on. Whether you’re here because of The First Flight, the Marsborn series, or the upcoming Gavin Ford Adventures, I’m glad you stopped by. Thanks for…