Dan Simmons





Dan Simmons

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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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Average rating: 3.93 · 75,179 ratings · 6,445 reviews · 102 distinct works
Hyperion (Hyperion, #1)
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 17,313 ratings — published 1989 — 48 editions
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The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion...
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 9,833 ratings — published 1990 — 49 editions
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Endymion (Hyperion, #3)
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 5,958 ratings — published 1995 — 37 editions
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The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion...
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 5,534 ratings — published 1997 — 36 editions
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The Terror
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 5,499 ratings — published 2007 — 31 editions
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Ilium
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 5,121 ratings — published 2003 — 21 editions
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Drood
3.41 of 5 stars 3.41 avg rating — 4,010 ratings — published 2009 — 29 editions
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Olympos (Ilium, #2)
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 3,333 ratings — published 2005 — 18 editions
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Carrion Comfort
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 2,613 ratings — published 1989 — 28 editions
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Summer of Night
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 2,211 ratings25 editions
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Ilium Olympos
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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

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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

“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

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