Dan Simmons
Autor/a de Hyperion
Sobre l'autor
Science fiction writer Dan Simmons was born in East Peoria, Illinois in 1948. He graduated from Wabash College in 1970 and received an M. A. from Washington University the following year. Simmons was an elementary school teacher and worked in the education field for a decade, including working to mostra'n més develop a gifted education program. His first successful short story was won a contest and was published in 1982. His first novel, Song of Kali, won a World Fantasy Award, and Simmons has also won a Theodore Sturgeon Award for short fiction, four Bram Stoker Awards, and eight Locus Awards. He is also the author of the Hyperion series, and Simmons and his work have been compared to Herbert's Dune and Asimov's Foundation series. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Dan Simmons
The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion / The Fall of Hyperion / Endymion / The Rise of Endymion (1990) 90 exemplars
[unidentified works] 8 exemplars
Looking for Kelly Dahl {novella} 8 exemplars
Metastasis 7 exemplars
Shave And A Haircut Two Bites 7 exemplars
Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds [short fiction] 7 exemplars
Carrion Comfort [original novella] 6 exemplars
La mort du centaure 5 exemplars
On K2 with Kanakaredes 5 exemplars
Death in Bangkok 4 exemplars
The River Styx Runs Upstream {short story} 3 exemplars
Ilium and Olympos 3 exemplars
Remembering Siri {short story} 3 exemplars
Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams {short story} 3 exemplars
Dying Is Easy Comedy is Hard — Autor — 2 exemplars
The Vanishing 2 exemplars
The Offering [teleplay] 1 exemplars
Ilium & Olympos, Part 1 of 7 1 exemplars
L'échiquier du mal 1 1 exemplars
Hyperion 1 exemplars
Ilium & Olympos, Part 2 of 7 1 exemplars
All Dracula's Children 1 exemplars
The Offering {short story} 1 exemplars
Ilium & Olympos, Part 3 of 7 1 exemplars
The End of Gravity 1 exemplars
The Ninth of Av 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection (2002) — Col·laborador — 522 exemplars
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection (1996) — Col·laborador — 418 exemplars
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection (1994) — Col·laborador — 255 exemplars
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Col·laborador — 184 exemplars
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 12 [December 1986] (1986) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
High Fantastic: Colorado's Fantasy, Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction (1995) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Simmons, Dan
- Data de naixement
- 1948-04-04
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Peoria, Illinois, USA
- Educació
- Wabash College (AB|English|1970)
Washington University, St. Louis (MEd|1971) - Professions
- writer
novelist
teacher (high school English) - Premis i honors
- World Horror Convention Grand Master Award (2013)
- Biografia breu
- Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works which span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. Simmons' 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.
Born in Peoria, Illinois, Simmons received a B.A. in English from Wabash College in 1970 and, in 1971, a Masters in Education from Washington University in St. Louis.
He soon started writing short stories, although his career did not take off until 1982, when, through Harlan Ellison's help, his short story "The River Styx Runs Upstream" was published and awarded first prize in a Twilight Zone Magazine story competition, and he was taken on as a client by Ellison's agent, Richard Curtis. Simmons' first novel, Song of Kali, was released in 1985.
He worked in elementary education until 1989.
Membres
Converses
Would you Drood with me? *Spoilers May Lurk Here* a The Green Dragon (agost 2022)
Historical Horror Novels by Dan Simmons a Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night (abril 2009)
science fiction book a Name that Book (desembre 2008)
Ressenyes
Ilium de Dan Simmons
F/SF
Thick, heavy and to most probably intimidating. Civil War amongst the Greek Gods, War both with the heroes of the Iliad and the Odyssey, robots bent on destruction, space cults, love, lust, retribution and the list goes on and on.
Olympos is the conclusion to the epic Dan Simmons Sci Fi opera Ilium. This volume offers many things to the reader, but the length can be daunting. Quite simply it is a book that you have to look at and tell yourself "it is time to go to war." You can fight the book and everything that is packed in it and win…or you can admit to yourself that it is going to be a long ride and just strap yourself in for the duration.
If this and Ilium are your first Simmons books then you are in for a treat. Reading the first book is a must before embarking on the ride that is Olympos.
One thing about Simmons for the newcomers to his catalogue. ANY Simmons book you read is going to be 100% unapologetic. Simmons is always going to give you his vision and extend the olive branch to the reader. But he is not going to hold it out for very long. You are either there or are going to be left behind. After reading Olympos it will be come clear that you are dealing with not only a writer but an artist, a seeker and a guide to a literary world in which few other authors can lay claim to.
Highly intelligent and leaving no stone unturned, Olympos is pure genius. Be warned though….the content of the book revolves around several interweaving groups of people. From Greek Gods, Demi-Gods, confused humans, inquisitive and quite capable sentient beings, (Moravecs). To put it mildly… anything you can imagine is in this story. Be prepared to ride along with Sonnet loving robots, and love smitten Greek Heroes. The pacing of Olympos can throw you for a loop, be warned. One the wheels start turning it takes formidable fortitude to keep up with back and forth of the players involved. Fret not…once you see the pattern it is smooth sailing.… (més)
Olympos is the conclusion to the epic Dan Simmons Sci Fi opera Ilium. This volume offers many things to the reader, but the length can be daunting. Quite simply it is a book that you have to look at and tell yourself "it is time to go to war." You can fight the book and everything that is packed in it and win…or you can admit to yourself that it is going to be a long ride and just strap yourself in for the duration.
If this and Ilium are your first Simmons books then you are in for a treat. Reading the first book is a must before embarking on the ride that is Olympos.
One thing about Simmons for the newcomers to his catalogue. ANY Simmons book you read is going to be 100% unapologetic. Simmons is always going to give you his vision and extend the olive branch to the reader. But he is not going to hold it out for very long. You are either there or are going to be left behind. After reading Olympos it will be come clear that you are dealing with not only a writer but an artist, a seeker and a guide to a literary world in which few other authors can lay claim to.
Highly intelligent and leaving no stone unturned, Olympos is pure genius. Be warned though….the content of the book revolves around several interweaving groups of people. From Greek Gods, Demi-Gods, confused humans, inquisitive and quite capable sentient beings, (Moravecs). To put it mildly… anything you can imagine is in this story. Be prepared to ride along with Sonnet loving robots, and love smitten Greek Heroes. The pacing of Olympos can throw you for a loop, be warned. One the wheels start turning it takes formidable fortitude to keep up with back and forth of the players involved. Fret not…once you see the pattern it is smooth sailing.… (més)
Note: read this during quarantine. Having read The Terror of Dan Simmons, I did expect much from Abominable. There are similarities but In many ways , Abominable just doesn’t deliver the same amount of wonder and suspense.
In fact, it is quite slow moving and quite unlike a typical Simmons, rather predictable. Moreover, I found all that had to do with early nazism a bit ahistorical and cliched.
Be that as it may, there is some good writing and there are points of interests. It is just not in the league of most of Simmons excellent work.
… (més)
In fact, it is quite slow moving and quite unlike a typical Simmons, rather predictable. Moreover, I found all that had to do with early nazism a bit ahistorical and cliched.
Be that as it may, there is some good writing and there are points of interests. It is just not in the league of most of Simmons excellent work.
… (més)
“In the rainy March 1893 for reasons that no one understands primarily because no one besides us is aware of this story, the London-based American Henry James decided to ..."
And thus begins the Fifth Heart❤️ a 2015 novel by Dan Simmons of Hyperion Cantos fame.
Two characters, Henry James realist-literary writer of Victorian age and an imaginary contemporary but no less eminent Sherlock Holmes, team up to solve a literary conundrum and detective mystery par excellence.
Readers of Simmon's Drood will find familiar elements here but so will anybody who has been introduced to a certain private detective of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's seminal fiction - which is just about anyone.
Again, Dan Simmons does not disappoint. Not only are his historical and fictional characters skillfully researched, splendidly imagined and by the gifts of this thoroughly talented writer's pen fluidly ensconced in a meticulously researched environment but also woven into plot line that is as just as imaginative as it is convincing. Morover, when halfway through the book, Samuel Clemens - better known as Mark Twain - takes the stage, Mr. Simmons outshines himself. Managing a remake of the literary persona of the imminent American writer, Simmons’ Twain is as humorous and audacious as the trademark Missourian in the flesh, inclusive a fitting Southern plantation accent, if you have access to the audio version that is. Mr. Simmons convincingly recreates the time and localities of the past, the Grantian gilded age where his characters can feel truly at home.
Summa summarum, Mr. Simmons has excelled at his craft, once more. Persistently and consistently he be-gifts us with, once every couple of years, with a quality work of fiction of which this latest work is only proof. He is, however, at the top of his game when he brings close to us the lives of historical characters, well-crafted and embellished to produce a fictional life based on a solid historical fundament. It is then when he tends to deliver a true masterpiece.… (més)
And thus begins the Fifth Heart❤️ a 2015 novel by Dan Simmons of Hyperion Cantos fame.
Two characters, Henry James realist-literary writer of Victorian age and an imaginary contemporary but no less eminent Sherlock Holmes, team up to solve a literary conundrum and detective mystery par excellence.
Readers of Simmon's Drood will find familiar elements here but so will anybody who has been introduced to a certain private detective of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's seminal fiction - which is just about anyone.
Again, Dan Simmons does not disappoint. Not only are his historical and fictional characters skillfully researched, splendidly imagined and by the gifts of this thoroughly talented writer's pen fluidly ensconced in a meticulously researched environment but also woven into plot line that is as just as imaginative as it is convincing. Morover, when halfway through the book, Samuel Clemens - better known as Mark Twain - takes the stage, Mr. Simmons outshines himself. Managing a remake of the literary persona of the imminent American writer, Simmons’ Twain is as humorous and audacious as the trademark Missourian in the flesh, inclusive a fitting Southern plantation accent, if you have access to the audio version that is. Mr. Simmons convincingly recreates the time and localities of the past, the Grantian gilded age where his characters can feel truly at home.
Summa summarum, Mr. Simmons has excelled at his craft, once more. Persistently and consistently he be-gifts us with, once every couple of years, with a quality work of fiction of which this latest work is only proof. He is, however, at the top of his game when he brings close to us the lives of historical characters, well-crafted and embellished to produce a fictional life based on a solid historical fundament. It is then when he tends to deliver a true masterpiece.… (més)
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