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Dan Simmons


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

Genre
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror

Influences
Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, Jack Vance ...more


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

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Average rating: 4.12 · 902,049 ratings · 56,747 reviews · 289 distinct works • Similar authors
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
4.27 avg rating — 299,021 ratings — published 1989 — 8 editions
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The Fall of Hyperion (Hyper...
4.24 avg rating — 148,175 ratings — published 1990 — 133 editions
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The Terror
4.09 avg rating — 73,929 ratings — published 2007 — 134 editions
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Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 70,618 ratings — published 1996 — 101 editions
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The Rise of Endymion (Hyper...
4.17 avg rating — 64,989 ratings — published 1997 — 80 editions
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Ilium (Ilium, #1)
4.04 avg rating — 32,397 ratings — published 2003 — 68 editions
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Summer of Night (Seasons of...
4.05 avg rating — 28,849 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions
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Carrion Comfort
3.91 avg rating — 25,480 ratings — published 1989 — 24 editions
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Olympos (Ilium, #2)
3.95 avg rating — 20,592 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
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Drood
3.55 avg rating — 17,632 ratings — published 2009
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More books by Dan Simmons…

Series by Dan Simmons

Hyperion The Fall of Hyperion Endymion The Rise of Endymion
(4 books)
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4.24 avg rating — 596,693 ratings

Ilium Olympos
(2 books)
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4.01 avg rating — 54,129 ratings

Summer of Night Children of the Night Fires of Eden A Winter Haunting
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3.87 avg rating — 50,075 ratings

Hardcase Hard Freeze Hard as Nails
(3 books)
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3.78 avg rating — 5,846 ratings

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Quotes by Dan Simmons  (?)
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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
tags: beauty, connection, happiness, inspiration, love, religion, sex
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“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
tags: history, literature, writing
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“It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion
tags: humor, inspirational, networking
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