Dan Simmons
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born
April 04, 1948
gender
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 years i...more
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Hyperion (Mass Market Paperback) by Dan Simmons avg rating 4.34 — 2290 ratings — published 1989 29 editions |
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The Fall of Hyperion (Mass Market Paperback) by Dan Simmons avg rating 4.17 — 1555 ratings — published 1990 27 editions |
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The Rise of Endymion (Mass Market Paperback) by Dan Simmons avg rating 4.08 — 1118 ratings — published 1997 17 editions |
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Endymion (Mass Market Paperback) by Dan Simmons avg rating 4.06 — 1112 ratings — published 1995 19 editions |
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Ilium (Mass Market Paperback) by Dan Simmons avg rating 4.02 — 954 ratings — published 2003 16 editions |
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The Terror: A Novel (Hardcover) by Dan Simmons avg rating 4.02 — 827 ratings — published 2007 13 editions |
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Olympos (Mass Market Paperback) by Dan Simmons avg rating 3.82 — 727 ratings — published 2005 10 editions |
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Carrion Comfort (Mass Market Paperback) by Dan Simmons avg rating 4.01 — 327 ratings — published 1989 14 editions |
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Summer of Night (Mass Market Paperback) by Dan Simmons avg rating 3.97 — 290 ratings — published 1991 8 editions |
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Song of Kali (Fantasy Masterworks) by Dan Simmons avg rating 3.53 — 316 ratings — published 1985 13 editions |
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quotes by 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)
"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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