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Dan Simmons


Born
in Peoria, Illinois, The United States
April 04, 1948

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Dan Simmons is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works that span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. Simmons's genre-intermingling Song of Kali (1985) won the World Fantasy Award. He also writes mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz. ...more

Average rating: 4.12 · 896,750 ratings · 56,350 reviews · 289 distinct worksSimilar authors
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

4.27 avg rating — 296,834 ratings — published 1989 — 14 editions
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The Fall of Hyperion (Hyper...

4.24 avg rating — 147,224 ratings — published 1990
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The Terror

4.09 avg rating — 73,310 ratings — published 2007 — 133 editions
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Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

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4.19 avg rating — 70,214 ratings — published 1996
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The Rise of Endymion (Hyper...

4.17 avg rating — 64,661 ratings — published 1997
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Ilium (Ilium, #1)

4.04 avg rating — 32,314 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions
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Summer of Night (Seasons of...

4.05 avg rating — 28,736 ratings — published 1991 — 77 editions
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Carrion Comfort

3.91 avg rating — 25,406 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions
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Olympos (Ilium, #2)

3.95 avg rating — 20,532 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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Drood

3.54 avg rating — 17,603 ratings — published 2009 — 65 editions
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Hyperion The Fall of Hyperion Endymion The Rise of Endymion
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Ilium Olympos
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4.00 avg rating — 53,993 ratings

Summer of Night Children of the Night Fires of Eden A Winter Haunting
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Hardcase Hard Freeze Hard as Nails
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“To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.”
Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion

“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.”
Dan Simmons, Hyperion

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