Question: What is the name of the main character of the science fiction book set in the village of Iping ? 

Context articles: The Invisible Man
World's Best Science Fiction: 1971
The Galton Whistle
The Windup Girl
The Legend Book of Science Fiction
Bayou St. John (novel)
Iping
Battle of the Bands (book)
Children of Dune
Omnibus of Science Fiction

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells.
 Originally serialized in "Pearson's Weekly" in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year.
 The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible.
 He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it.
World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr, the seventh volume in a series of seven.
 It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in 1971, followed by a hardcover edition issued in September of the same year by the same publisher as a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club.
 It was followed in 1972 by "The 1972 Annual World's Best SF", edited by Wollheim, and "The Best Science Fiction of the Year", edited by Carr, the first volumes of two separate successor series,
"The Galton Whistle" is a science fiction short story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, a story in his "Viagens Interplanetarias" series.
 It is the first (chronologically) set on the planet Vishnu.
 It was first published, as "Ultrasonic God," in the magazine "Future Combined with Science Fiction Stories" in the issue for July, 1951.
 It first appeared in book form under the present title (that preferred by the author) in the collection "The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens", published in hardcover by Twayne Publishers in 1953, and in paperback by Signet Books in 1971.
 It also appeared in the anthologies "Novelets of Science Fiction" (Belmont Books, 1963, under the original title), "The Good Old Stuff" (St. Martin's Griffin, 1998), and "The Good Stuff" (Science Fiction Book Club, 1999).
 The story has been translated into Portuguese, Dutch, and Italian.
The Windup Girl is a biopunk science fiction novel by American writer Paolo Bacigalupi.
 It was his debut novel and was published by Night Shade Books on September 1, 2009.
 The novel was named as the ninth best fiction book of 2009 by "TIME" magazine, and as the best science fiction book of the year in the Reference and User Services Association's 2010 Reading List.
 The work won the 2010 Nebula Award and the 2010 Hugo Award (tied with "The City & the City" by China Miéville for the Hugo Award), both for best novel.
 This book also won the 2010 Compton Crook Award and the 2010 Locus Award for best first novel.
The Legend Book of Science Fiction is an anthology of science fiction short works edited by Gardner Dozois.
 It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by Legend in July 1991.
 The first American edition was issued in hardcover under the variant title Modern Classics of Science Fiction by St. Martin’s Press in February 1992, with a trade paperback edition following from the same publisher in February 1993; the same firm also produced a hardcover book club edition together with the Science Fiction Book Club in April 1992.
Bayou St. John is a historical fiction book set in the pre-Civil War era, written by Arthur Pindle.
Iping is a village in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England.
 It lies within the civil parish of Stedham with Iping, just off the A272 road 2 mi west of Midhurst.
 The village lies on the River Rother.
 It is the setting of the classic H. G. Wells science fiction book "The Invisible Man".
Battle of the Bands is a fiction book set in the same universe as the "High School Musical" series of American films.
 It is part of a series of books by different authors; this one was written by N.B. Grace.
 The plot features a Battle of Bands competition.
Children of Dune is a 1976 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the third in his "Dune" series of six novels.
 Initially selling over 75,000 copies, it became the first hardcover best-seller ever in the science fiction field.
 The novel was critically well-received for its gripping plot, action, and atmosphere, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1977.
 It was originally serialized in "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" in 1976, and was the last "Dune" novel to be serialized before book publication.
 The novels "Dune Messiah" and "Children of Dune" were published in one volume by the Science Fiction Book Club in 2002 and the two were adapted into a well-received television miniseries entitled "Frank Herbert's Children of Dune" by the Sci-Fi Channel in 2003.
Omnibus of Science Fiction is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Groff Conklin.
 It was first published in hardcover by Crown Publishers in 1952, and reprinted in 1953; a book club edition was issued by the same publisher with the Science Fiction Book Club in the same year.
 Later editions were issued by Bonanza Books/Crown Publishers in 1984 and Chatham River Press in 1984.
 An abridged paperback version including eleven of its forty-three stories was published by Berkley Books in August 1956 under the variant title Science Fiction Omnibus and reprinted in November 1963.
 A two volume British edition, also abridged, was published in hardcover by Grayson & Grayson in 1953-1954 under the variant titles Strange Travels in Science Fiction and Strange Adventures in Science Fiction; together, they included twenty-two of the original forty-three stories.