Dan Simmons
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born
April 04, 1948
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male
place of birth
Peoria, Illinois, The United States
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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction
about this author
Dan Simmons was born in Peoria, Illinois, in 1948, and grew up in various cities and small towns in the Midwest, including Brimfield, Illinois, which was the source of his fictional "Elm Haven" in 1991's SUMMER OF NIGHT and 2002's A WINTER HAUNTING. Dan received a B.A. in English from Wabash College in 1970, winning a national Phi Beta Kappa Award during his senior year for excellence in fiction, journalism and art.
Dan received his Masters in Education from Washington University in St. Louis in 1971. He then worked in elementary education for 18 years -- 2 years in Missouri, 2 years in Buffalo, New York -- one year as a specially trained BOCES "resource teacher" and another as a sixth-grade teacher -- and 14...more
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Hyperion (Hyperion, #1) by Dan Simmons avg rating 4.23 — 4,285 ratings — published 1989 28 editions |
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The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion, #2) by Dan Simmons avg rating 4.11 — 2,859 ratings — published 1990 34 editions |
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Endymion (Hyperion, #3) by Dan Simmons avg rating 4.02 — 1,974 ratings — published 1994 23 editions |
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The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion, #4) by Dan Simmons avg rating 4.07 — 1,880 ratings — published 1997 25 editions |
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The Terror by Dan Simmons, Erich Lessing avg rating 3.94 — 1,699 ratings — published 2007 19 editions |
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Ilium by Dan Simmons avg rating 3.98 — 1,620 ratings — published 2003 19 editions |
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Olympos by Dan Simmons avg rating 3.81 — 1,204 ratings — published 2005 12 editions |
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Drood by Dan Simmons avg rating 3.45 — 852 ratings — published 2009 12 editions |
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Summer of Night by Dan Simmons avg rating 3.93 — 570 ratings — published 1991 9 editions |
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Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons avg rating 3.86 — 566 ratings — published 1989 20 editions |
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March 2009,
Dan Simmons
"I love unreliable narrators. When I realized I was going to go with Wilkie Collins as my narrator, it was joyous. First of all, he's a serious drug addict, taking tremendous amounts of laudanum every day and shooting morphine at night to sleep. And second, he was a little crazy." ...More
"I love unreliable narrators. When I realized I was going to go with Wilkie Collins as my narrator, it was joyous. First of all, he's a serious drug addict, taking tremendous amounts of laudanum every day and shooting morphine at night to sleep. And second, he was a little crazy." ...More
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""Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io.
"Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better.
"Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.""
— Dan Simmons (Ilium)
"Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better.
"Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.""
— Dan Simmons (Ilium)
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"It occurs to me that our survival may deend upon our alking to one another"
— Dan Simmons
— Dan Simmons
"We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain. We are destined and designed to bear our pain with us, hugging it tight to our bellies like the young Spartan thief hiding a wolf cub so it can eat away our insides. What other creature in God's wide domain would carry the memory of you, Fanny, dust these nine hundred years, and allow it to eat away at him even as consumption does the same work with its effortless efficiency?
Words assail me. The thought of books makes me ache. Poetry echoes in my mind, and if I had the ability to banish it, I would do so at once."
— Dan Simmons (The Fall of Hyperion)
Words assail me. The thought of books makes me ache. Poetry echoes in my mind, and if I had the ability to banish it, I would do so at once."
— Dan Simmons (The Fall of Hyperion)
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| Goodreads Librarians: Please Correct Page Information on 0553288202 | 3 | 59 | Jan 01, 2009 01:12PM | |
| SciFi and Fantasy...: What I am also reading in December | 30 | 209 | Jan 08, 2009 06:31AM | |
| Fantasy Book Club: Dan Simmons | 1 | 39 | Jan 25, 2009 06:40PM | |
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| Fantasy Book Club: Review Blog: Fantasy Book Critic | 4 | 64 | Jan 31, 2009 01:56PM | |
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