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Flashback

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The United States is near total collapse. But 87% of the population doesn't care: they're addicted to flashback, a drug that allows its users to re-experience the best moments of their lives. After ex-detective Nick Bottom's wife died in a car accident, he went under the flash to be with her; he's lost his job, his teenage son, and his livelihood as a result.

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Published July 1st 2011 by Reagan Arthur Books (first published January 1st 2011)

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Sep 18, 2011 Kemper rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, detectives, dystopia, future-is-now, politics, sci-fi, thriller, crime-mystery, usa-usa

Dear Dan Simmons,

We have taken your family hostage. If you want to see them alive again, immediately write a dystopian novel that incorporates the following ideas:

1) The election of Obama in 2008 triggers a wave of socialist entitlement programs that bankrupts the United States. Be sure to repeatedly point out that the debt run up by the liberals is the key factor in this. Do NOT mention that Bill Clinton‘s administration paid off a huge national debt that had increased dramatically during the R...more

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Jun 22, 2011 Dan Schwent rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: crime-and-mystery, 2011

In a former United States devastated by economic and political collapse, former police officer Nick Bottom, a Flashback addict like much of the country, is pulled from the ruins of his former life and hired by a Japanese businessman to solve the six year old murder of his son. But what does the murder have to do with the car accident that killed his wife and sent him into Flashback's warm embrace?

When I saw that Dan Simmons' next book was going to be called Flashback, I pre-ordered it immediatel...more In a former United States devastated by economic and political collapse, former police officer Nick Bottom, a Flashback addict like much of the country, is pulled from the ruins of his former life and hired by a Japanese businessman to solve the six year old murder of his son. But what does the murder have to do with the car accident that killed his wife and sent him into Flashback's warm embrace?

When I saw that Dan Simmons' next book was going to be called Flashback, I pre-ordered it immediately. Flashback is a drug that allows the user to relive memories and was first introduced by Simmons in the wonderful Hyperion Cantos, one of my all-time favorite books. Did it live up to the standard set by Hyperion? I'll tell you in a little while...

There were a lot of things I liked about Flashback. Flashback and the culture surrounding it made a great plot device. I thought that using Nick Bottom's Flashback addiction to explore his own memories to help investigate who killed Nakamura's son was a pretty novel idea. I liked the converging plotlines with Nick's estranged son Val and his father-in-law Leonard. I liked the relationship with Nick and Sato, Nakamura's watchdog. I loved the references to other Simmons books like Hardcase and Hyperion and the references to Shakespeare and Keats. Most of all, I loved the serpentine nature of the mystery and how it had to do with Dara's death. The world was very well constructed and was a bit of a throwback to the cyberpunk dystopias of the 80's.

That's a lot of likes but the dislike was very hard to ignore. The tone of the book was so conservative that it made Rush Limbaugh seem like Hilary Clinton by comparison. While I can understand that since the setting is a dystopia ruled by a Caliphate of militant Muslim there was going to be some anti-Muslim sentiments, the anti-Muslim venom Simmons spewed liberally throughout the text got harder and harder to ignore. Simmons also goes on to bash health care reform, global warming, green technology, and a lot of other things. While I'm all for people thinking for themselves and having their own political beliefs and even found myself agreeing with Simmons on a few points, I don't think a novel is the right place to showcase those beliefs. I didn't like it when Heinlein did it, I hated it when Brad Thor did it, and I sure don't like Simmons doing it now. He took a great premise and went all Sean Penn with it.

So did Flashback live up to the standard set by Hyperion? It did not but not for lack of trying. If Simmons wouldn't have been so ham-fisted with the political stuff, I would have rated it much higher. Even still, I found it to be a pretty enjoyable read once I learned to avoid the political diatribes. I guess the final verdict will have to be a 3.(less)

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Sep 21, 2011 Monica! rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: it-was-earth-all-along, i-find-you-strangely-disturbing, robots-and-rockets-and-scifi-oh-my, whodunit, read-in-2011, buckets-of-snark

I have an occasional problem with dystopias, friends, where I feel like the future is just too bizarre to actually exist (cough Divergent cough), and I wonder why the author didn’t bother to tell us what exactly brought about their particular collapsed society.

This was not my problem with Flashback. Dan Simmons’ detective-turned-drug-addict Nick Bottom very clearly spells out the destruction of the United States. The country decided to claim “a more humble role” on the world stage, an endless re...more

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Kelly Maybedog Hawkins Oh my God stop stop, I can't take any more. His Hyperion Cantos is in my top five books of all time and it just so sickens me that he thinks like this...more
Jun 24, 2012 04:01am

Monica! ::: patpatpat :::

I know, sad bear, I know.

I think that Simmons was all, "But this isn't really what I believe, it's just what I'm choosing to write ab...more
Jun 24, 2012 07:27pm

Jan Sauer I don't get that =/

Hyperion's Cantos were great. Carrion Comfort as well, but there was some twisted pro-zionism logic in the end, it felt awkward......more
Jun 30, 2012 04:30pm

Jul 29, 2011 Tyler rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: all-time-favorites, my-fav-horror-scifi-thrillers

People dislike this book for pretty much two major reasons, those being the politics he uses to drive the story, and the far too overused these days cries of racism: but same critical people have no problem with when Stephen King or Douglas Preston add in their own politics and and Christian bashing to their respective novels.. .. Guess it all depends on which side of the isle you sit on.. .. I was able to get through Under the Dome and and to me it took continuous cheap shots at christianity (w...more

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Oct 09, 2011 Anna Larson rated it 4 of 5 stars

I read Flashback before looking at any of the reviews and I'm glad I did. I found the storyline intriguing and the bleak future portrayed a great use of Simmons imagination. Regardless of ones own political beliefs this is simply an interesting take on one possible future with the current political climate. Is it realistic? I think you'll find liberals screaming no while libertarians kow tow to the great wise Dan Simmons.

I'm surprised so many readers couldn't get past the politics and dystopian...more

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Jul 09, 2011 Curt Hopkins Hopkins rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: science-fiction, dystopia

Most dystopia's are what I call right-wing dystopias, that ask, what if those things traditionally considered conservative (military, free market, etc.) progress to extremes? What bad things could happen to the world? This one asks the same things about things that are considered liberal (political correctness, accommodation, deficit spending*). Mostly it's a good novel, though I wish he wouldn't have spent so much time on exposition. Would have kept it tighter and more effective without the edi...more

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Nov 25, 2012 Paul Wade rated it 1 of 5 stars

Absolutely loved The Terror. Really liked Drood. Hyperion was pretty darned good too.

But this book? Holy sh*t!

I'll take a guess that the author never put it past an editor. The book is 80% overwritten -- and chock full of the author's political rants. I mean do we really need to know about how much you hate the Boulder, CO city council? For christ's sake. Does the truck driver really need to launch off on a long tirade about the 2012 election?

This book is absolute crap. I've tried to push throug...more

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Jan 18, 2012 Checkman rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: a-disappointment, detective, dystopian, mystery, science-fiction, crime, drama

First let me state that I like Dan Simmons. But I didn't care for this one. What the heck happened to Mr. Simmons? This book is the right wing counterpart of Soft Apocalypse and while the mystery storyline is stronger than what passes for a plot in Soft Apocalypse it's just as obnoxious. In it's totality this novel is more of a 500 page political/social scree by Mr. Simmons than a novel. It merely uses the dystopian/science-fiction setting to make it a little easier to go down.

I consider myself...more First let me state that I like Dan Simmons. But I didn't care for this one. What the heck happened to Mr. Simmons? This book is the right wing counterpart of Soft Apocalypse and while the mystery storyline is stronger than what passes for a plot in Soft Apocalypse it's just as obnoxious. In it's totality this novel is more of a 500 page political/social scree by Mr. Simmons than a novel. It merely uses the dystopian/science-fiction setting to make it a little easier to go down.

I consider myself to be a conservative, but I dislike propaganda writing. Flashback is nothing more than a Tea Party approved novel. I don't necessarily disagree with some of the ideas in the book, but I don't like being beaten over the head. It's a simplistic approach and insulting to the reader. It's better to mix some political/social ideology into the story. Do it subtly so the reader is aware of it, but can still enjoy the story. The story should be in charge, not the other way around. I expect some politics in a dystopian/post-apocalyptic novel. After all it's a story in which a society has collapsed for whatever reason. It's inevitable that the writer will offer a reason or reasons as to the collapse. But it's overdone here.

The only thing I can think of is Mr. Simmons has given into despair about the current situation. Writers should avoid working on a novel when they are in a dark place - well unless it's going to be a good, intense, dark novel. I've been to Mr. Simmons website. He's a wealthy man with a very nice place in Colorado. I imagine that he's weathering the mess that we're in fairly well. He should have just taken a nice vacation to some lovely third world nation and worked on this novel when in a better mood.

Very disappointed. I'm giving it two stars because there was some good stuff in it. A tough, two-fisted, detective story set in a dystopian future can be a great read. This novel has flashes of potential, but it's weighed down by the non-stop lecturing.

For a similar Libertarian/Dystopian novel see The Probability Broach. It's actually little more fun to read, but very similar in it's bleak outlook for the United States. Only in Probability it takes place in 1987. Hmmmm. That forecast didn't come true. I wonder what the 2030's will really be like. (less)

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Aug 31, 2011 Jason Bean rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: dystopian

Dan Simmons is easily one of my favorite writers. His books 'The Terror' and 'Drood' are among my all-time favorites but 'Flashback' is an abrupt departure from these stories. Mixing modern themes with a near-future setting, Simmons tells a unique dystopian story that's just as compelling (and readable) as his previous works!

I loved the little details Simmons works into 'Flashback', particularly the grim state the U.S. is in. His complex (though not really likeable) characterizations are in ful...more

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Sep 18, 2011 Susan rated it 1 of 5 stars

Disappointed with this book. Liked Simmons' earlier sci-fi; unfortunately, this book seems to be mainly a smokescreen for some conservative and possibly racist perspectives that I don't agree with. I don't have a problem with political undertones in novels if they are well integrated thematically, even if I disagree with them, but the characters come out with these rants that detract from the story - or worse, there will be a block of awkward exposition about the cost of U.S. entitlement program...more

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Jan 31, 2012 Arthur rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: sci-fi, stand-alone-read, liked

A very very near and inevitable future. Mere 20 years away. Much of what happened in the book in these years, I predicted in 2006 that it is going to happen soon and guess what? I was called names. I wonder, maybe Dan Simmons read my posts? As an afterthought, no. I don't think so. Great mind think alike is more likely.
We are 1/4 of the way into this chaos. Unfortunately.
Great book. Grim, realistic and mature. Quite often it was difficult to think about the story as Skiffy as Sato called it.

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Apr 24, 2013 Mark rated it 4 of 5 stars

Dan Simmons is an odd writer. Some of his stuff is simply sublime and verging on the point of excellence, as with his novels Carrion Comfort and The Terror, whilst others are distinctly average bordering on...well, crap in a word. I am thinking here, as a latter example, of such fare as the abominable Dickens homage Drood and his earlier novel, Summer Of Night. When he is good then, he is very, very good but when he is bad he is poor.

Thankfully Flashback falls into the former category and is ver...more Dan Simmons is an odd writer. Some of his stuff is simply sublime and verging on the point of excellence, as with his novels Carrion Comfort and The Terror, whilst others are distinctly average bordering on...well, crap in a word. I am thinking here, as a latter example, of such fare as the abominable Dickens homage Drood and his earlier novel, Summer Of Night. When he is good then, he is very, very good but when he is bad he is poor.

Thankfully Flashback falls into the former category and is very nearly an example of complete and total brilliance. His answer to the movie Strange Days, the novel sees his central character living in a dark and depressing dystopian future where much of America has simply given up and its people now spend their days re-living their past rather than living in the present through the common use of a drug named Flash.

Flash is a powerful narcotic and hallucinogen. Under its spell, users are able to trigger past memories and re-live them as though they are actually there. Skilled users can choose which memories they access and though there has long been rumours of Flash2 which would allow you to then have better control and be able to alter those memories, creating a new reality that exists solely in your head, so far nothing has emerged.

Into this dark, depressing future comes Ex-Cop, ex-Private Investigator Nick Bottom. Ex because he is a Flash addict who refuses to stop reliving memories of his wife in the days before she died in a fatal car crash. Bottom is washed-up; a mixed-up mess who continues to live only so that he can return to happier days in his head, but still he has something that a high powered Japanese business man wants!

Before being binned by the Force, Nick Bottom investigated the murder of this business man's son and now, after a fire has destroyed all records, his mind is the only source of information about the investigation which this business man now wants re-opened seven years later. Bottom is given a large sum of money to now solve the case, an offer he cannot refuse due to his addiction, but reopening the investigation also opens a big can of worms as he quickly begins to suspect that his wife was at the scene on the day of the murder. Just what has Bottom stumbled across and what does it mean for the future....

With its constant references to Shakespeare and A Mid-Summers Nights Dream, Simmons shows off his prowess at writing something that is, at the same time, as literary as it is fantastic. The world he has created is part Strange Days/ part Blade Runner but all scarily believable as we pay witness to an America where the Muslim faith has seized large areas of control and where an air of complacency has crept in amongst its people. Flashback is only set twenty years forwards and yet, if you read carefully you can see the groundwork for this worlds creation being established in the here and now.

This simply is brilliant, a true tour-de-force, and easily the best of his books I have read since The Terror. If you are a little unsure of Dan Simmons as an author, still you should give this a go because this is the book that might just change your mind about him!(less)

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Mar 10, 2013 Joe rated it 3 of 5 stars

Dan Simmons has been one of my favourite authors of the past few years. I'd read some of his earlier horror stuff in the 90s, but it was the recent releases of Terror, Drood and Black Hills that really made me rate him so highly.
Which was why I was a bit disappointed with his right wing take on dystopian literature. This book is set in the near future in an America bankrupt by the years of Obama spending. Texas has separated.California is a battle zone and what's left of the U.S., ruled in tande...more

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Feb 10, 2013 Herbert rated it 2 of 5 stars

I love Dan Simmons' work. I devoured the Hyperion Cantos and Ilium was very enjoyable, too. In fact, I will go as far as to say that the first two Hyperion books could possibly be my favorite sci-fi books.

So you can sort of imagine my disappointment at Flashback. On hearing the title, I thought it might be set in the Hyperion universe, since there is a mention of the drug in the Cantos. But instead, it's set in a Dystopian near-future United States.

The story is not bad. It revolves around a dr...more I love Dan Simmons' work. I devoured the Hyperion Cantos and Ilium was very enjoyable, too. In fact, I will go as far as to say that the first two Hyperion books could possibly be my favorite sci-fi books.

So you can sort of imagine my disappointment at Flashback. On hearing the title, I thought it might be set in the Hyperion universe, since there is a mention of the drug in the Cantos. But instead, it's set in a Dystopian near-future United States.

The story is not bad. It revolves around a drug called Flashback that enables the taker to relive pleasant memories in fine detail. Nick Bottom, a former Denver detective and current Flashback addict, is hired by the head of a powerful Japanese Zaibatsu to find the killer of his son who was brutally murdered years ago while filming a documentary about Flashback. Under the watchful eye of the master assassin Hideki Sato, or Colonel Death, Nick realizes that the case was much bigger than just a murder, that it was much more personal for him, and that he could change the world.

The plot isn't that bad, but considering it came from such a master story teller, it's not overly compelling, either. What's much worse is the unabashed attempts by the author to instill the reader with his own political views on current issues that becomes suffocating and deeply irritating towards the end.

Just to clear the air, I'm not saying expressing ones political views through novels is wrong. But what is disappointing, as a fan of the author, is how he almost parrots the right-wing American political viewpoint with no exception. You would expect more from someone with such high intellect as Dan Simmons.

So, he thinks Obama's foreign policy is completely wrong and will bring about the downfall of the USA, it will bring about the unification of the Islamic world (how? Iranians hate Saudis more than they do the West), and it will result in the nuclear destruction of Israel. Technological advances in ecology, such as wind farms and hybrid cars will ultimately result in failure. Global warming is a hoax, gun control will end in more crime, and Europe will collapse. The only sort-of ally that the USA can trust is Japan.

If he had taken to maybe just one or two of those positions, and the explanations given in the book were more compelling, it might have left me more respect for him. But sadly...(less)

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Jan 07, 2013 Metrilenkki rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: scifi, dystopic-future, crime, islamophobia, obummer, cyberpunk, dan-simmons, politics, thriller

I had heard of this book every now and then from internet sources and related reviews, most recently from a review of Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (another book dealing with a dystopic future that I read in 2012). Frankly I find it heartbreaking that a man who wrote Hyperion, Summer of Night and Song of Kali would produce something like this. It reeks of a steady detachment of reality. The Terror made me question if Simmons' best work had already been published; this book cleared all doubt....more I had heard of this book every now and then from internet sources and related reviews, most recently from a review of Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (another book dealing with a dystopic future that I read in 2012). Frankly I find it heartbreaking that a man who wrote Hyperion, Summer of Night and Song of Kali would produce something like this. It reeks of a steady detachment of reality. The Terror made me question if Simmons' best work had already been published; this book cleared all doubt. It's doubly annoying that this book would have been much better if he'd seen some more effort in his world building. Simmons can handle large threads very well and this book had potential.

The premise is that political correctness went mad and it's all Obama's fault for giving money to entitled minorities and bending beyond all logic to appease muslim sentiments (muslims musLIMS MUSLIMS!!). Consequently the United States has collapsed and is in a perpetual drug coma through the use of flashback, a drug that makes people relive the memories of their choice. Europe has fallen to the fascist theocratic Global Muslim Caliphate that murdered almost the entire population of Israel and is hunting for the remaining Jews. Japan, depopulated by their demographic crisis, is in the process of conquering China that suffered the worst economic collapse in , like, ever, and fights India and Tsarist Russia for supermacy in eastern Eurasia. The plot follows a former policeman and current flashback addict Nicholas Bottom as he's hired to investigate a murder that he couldn't solve, and his estranged son and aspiring thug Val who's trying to escape an escalating fourway race war in LA to murder his father, who left him with his grandfather.

The book combines japanophobia, hispanophobia and islamophobia in a way only most driven amateur writers on freerepublic or stormfront would dream of. The Japanese are all honor-bound ninja robots, the mexicans are all la raza -fanatics, the muslims inhuman zealots in the best traditions of Hollywood. And all the black addicts literally have Nigger as a middle name. This must be that sublety that I hear people about. It makes me actually wonder if this book was ghostwritten for Glen Beck and accidentally published with the author's real name. The book further pushes a fringe rightwing message through the character Sebastian Fox, Val's grandfather and Nick's father in-law. Through his notes on an aspiring historic on the first three decades of 21st century we get exposition on all the spineless liberals and hippies who lost the country that are never got back. Basically US was bankrupted because people weren't allowed to die in the streets. We are even reminded of the perils of even an inch of socialism through the thoughts of a mythical wiseman in the latter parts of the book when Sebastian and Val travel through the desolate countryside. The book reminded me of free rightwing american fiction that is availabe on the internet, only much more expertedly written.

The only reason I give this book two stars is bevause it's still professionally written. Like I said, it had potential if the author would have done his research and written a backstory that wasn't out of stormfront funny pages. The pacing is good-ish, the lecturing doesn't go on that long, the main characters are all well-written and Simmons handles large literal entities well. The book itself is okay. Reading it reminded me a lot of the Kindly Ones, although they have very little in common (in Simmons' book the characters actually have character development).

Still, I wouldn't recommend this book unless you want to read rightwing dystopic diabetrice, or if you were a fan of Dan Simmons and wish to suffer emotional trauma and dissapointment. This is a coherent book, it doesn't make it any good.(less)

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Jan 01, 2013 Katherine Derbyshire rated it 2 of 5 stars

Avoid.

I'll read just about anything on an airplane, but I abandoned this one in Atlanta Airport rather than finish it.

The premise is interesting: a future US in which every rightwing paranoid fantasy has come true and most citizens spend their time "flashing" back to previous memories. The plot has potential: a "flash"-addicted detective is hired to solve the murder of a Japanese billionaire's son, and stumbles into an incredibly convoluted web of alliances and counter-alliances. This potentia...more

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Dec 21, 2012 Gena rated it 1 of 5 stars

This is quite possibly the worst book I have ever bothered to read in its entirety. I counted myself a Dan Simmons fan after The Terror and Drood; earlier this year I struggled a bit through Black Hills, which I found a little dull, but I still found myself recommending it to people I thought might be interested. The most generous response I had to Flashback was to wonder whether Dan Simmons had had a stroke--no, seriously--and to be genuinely concerned about his mental and physical health. As a...more This is quite possibly the worst book I have ever bothered to read in its entirety. I counted myself a Dan Simmons fan after The Terror and Drood; earlier this year I struggled a bit through Black Hills, which I found a little dull, but I still found myself recommending it to people I thought might be interested. The most generous response I had to Flashback was to wonder whether Dan Simmons had had a stroke--no, seriously--and to be genuinely concerned about his mental and physical health. As a work of fiction in the hardboiled future-cop vein, the book is hackneyed and unoriginal. Every character is a sketch of a caricature. Not only do the Japanese characters confuse their Rs and Ls, but the main character notes how funny it is. REPEATEDLY. The book relies on interior monologue and dialogue not only to lay out but to repeat, absurdly, the translation of post-apocalyptic mid-21st-century culture into terms its (apparently severely challenged) early 21st-century readers will understand. "'But where are you going to going to come up with five million new bucks, or the equivalent of a thousand old dollars? No one has had that kind of money lying around since the extravagant entitlements spending of the early twenty-first century led the Arabs to nuke Israel,' he said. 'Now I have to go see a guy at Coors Field Detention Center, which used to be Coors Field, as in the local baseball stadium, you know, back when it was that, which it is not now. You know, because of the orientals.'" I just made that sentence up, but there is a good chance it appears verbatim in the book. I am simply not exaggerating here.

As a piece of political propaganda, the book is repetitive, shrill, impressively racist, and, again, unoriginal. More than anything, it is an account of how we castrated America. Unequivocally: the "extravagant entitlements spending" (this phrase does in fact appear repeatedly throughout) of a certain first African American president drove the US economy into the ground; Canadian multiculturalism allowed the Muslim horde to invade North America; and, I don't know, a bunch of other nutty crap lifted directly from the Fox News stream, like the imposition of wind turbines and socialized health care, thus, it really sucks to be a white guy thirty years from now, except in the utopia of Texas, which, having seceded from the emasculated Union, has preserved the American dream of free enterprise, no taxes, and conquering Mexico. I suppose it is kind of remarkable that the book manages to cover *every* pet peeve of the hysterical right-wing media, giving its half-baked characters plenty of time for mental meandering during their life-or-death, high stakes adventures, so they can contemplate the ways ethnic studies ruined college, environmentalists ruined industry, stupid "modernist" architects ruined that new building in downtown Boulder, and liberals ruined everything. There is an aged "left wing professor" (i.e. he taught literature and his third wife was a black woman named Nubia, no, FOR REAL) who is installed for the distinct purpose of contemplating all the ways his beliefs turned out to be utterly, devastatingly wrong about anything he ever had a liberal thought about. The narrative gives him a second chance after allowing him to confess that in his heart of hearts he would have liked to see a certain former president of the early part of the century and his administration "strung up by their necks in Washington" (NOT MAKING THIS UP); he uses this chance to fully embrace his Jewishness and recolonize the Middle East (the whole thing this time) as part of a second wave Zionism.

There's all this other stuff but there is no point in going on.

One might call it a bold move to frame such a delusional piece of work, however incoherently, as the ass's dream of A Midsummer Night's Dream. I think boldness is merely the unintended effect of writerly incompetence here. I did think, at one point, that the only thing that could redeem this book was if it ended, "And then Rush Limbaugh woke up, grinning. He was a very bad man." Spoiler: it does not. Maybe I was dreaming that Simmons's other books were good. I don't think I can bring myself to read him again.(less)

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Nov 29, 2012 Zack rated it 1 of 5 stars

your main character, if an educated detective, can only be so cluelessly idiotic before i stop caring.
move along friends. nothing to see here.

EDIT:
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for clarification (after having read other reviews), i want it known that i don't dislike this book because of the viewpoints held by the novel's characters which could be classified as right-wing. i just think it's a bad mystery. and the whole buildup about the fancyschmancy drug that allows you to re-live chosen moments of your pa...more

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Oct 31, 2012 Cv Rick rated it 1 of 5 stars

RIGHT WING VINDICATION FANTASY!!

What I learned in this book:

1. Electing Obama spelled the downfall of America.
2. Nationalized healthcare will cause the deaths of millions and everyone needing examination for anything serious will die waiting.
3. Liberals are lining up to allow Muslims to institute Sharia Law anywhere in the world.
4. Liberals hate America.
5. Right Wing Radio is the last bastion for Freedom of Expression and will be outlawed.
6. Our only salvation is a nation with a higher Debt to G...more

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Aug 26, 2012 Claire rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012, scifi

First off, I'm giving this two stars because I just couldn't put the book down and read on in fascinated astonishment. The dystopia, sci-fi noir part is quite interesting up til the end - who did kill billionaire Nakamura's son? The drug, Flashback, is also an interesting idea. I started feeling uncomfortable pretty soon on due to the Japanese stereotyping going on at the start of the novel. But then the novel also turns into a diatribe, a polemic for what I can only assume must be Dan Simmons'...more

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Aug 19, 2012 Alexis rated it 3 of 5 stars

How did I stumble on this book? I saw this one at the St-Marks bookstore, and since I enjoyed Endymion and the Terror, I decided to go for it. As I'm wont to do I checked the reviews on Amazon, which were rather conflicted to say the least.

The premise of Flashback is that the US of A has been flushed down the toilet, thanks to... (tada) over-generous entitlement programs that have bankrupted the country. The country has thoroughly lost its domination, cultural, economic, military or otherwise, s...more

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Jul 22, 2012 Eccentrika rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: adult, apocalyptic-and-post

Immaginate un futuro non troppo lontano, tra vent'anni circa. Immaginate adesso il presente attuale, con la crisi economica, la disoccupazione dilagante, il malcontento crescente della popolazione. Ecco, vi sembrerebbe strano immaginare che tra vent'anni tutto questo NON sarà migliorato? Che la crisi, che NON sarà affatto passeggera come vogliono farci credere, continuerà a peggiorare? E che tutto questo porterà inevitabilmente ad una crisi globale di vasta portata in cui i paesi più pericolosi...more Immaginate un futuro non troppo lontano, tra vent'anni circa. Immaginate adesso il presente attuale, con la crisi economica, la disoccupazione dilagante, il malcontento crescente della popolazione. Ecco, vi sembrerebbe strano immaginare che tra vent'anni tutto questo NON sarà migliorato? Che la crisi, che NON sarà affatto passeggera come vogliono farci credere, continuerà a peggiorare? E che tutto questo porterà inevitabilmente ad una crisi globale di vasta portata in cui i paesi più pericolosi entreranno in campo con le loro armi nucleari e scoppieranno delle guerre per il territorio? Che le culture invece di progredire e civilizzarsi torneranno a livelli da medioevo? Che l'Unione Europea non esisterà più, come gli stessi Stati Uniti, che verranno invasi e scissi in tante parti? Lo scenario catastrofista descritto da Dan Simmons in questo libro non è affatto strano, ma talmente REALE da mettere i brividi!
Pensate adesso ad una droga, capace di rivivere qualsiasi momento del passato di una persona, inclusi tutti i dettagli che la mente umana non riuscirebbe più a ricordare. Non credete che voi, persone nate prima della crisi quando ancora il mondo sembrava felice ed in crescita, vorreste farne uso per sfuggire alla realtà e rifugiarvi nei vostri ricordi migliori?
Nel prossimo futuro ricreato da Simmons il 90% degli americani sopravvissuti sono disoccupati e drogati di Flashback, proprio perché la loro vita è talmente triste e vuota che è più facile guardare al passato piuttosto che al presente. Non c'è nessun barlume di speranza nell'esistenza di queste persone. E tra le nuove generazioni, quelle nate quando tutto era già cambiato, vige solo uno spietato cinismo, violenza e inciviltà. Coloro i quali non hanno ricordi felici da flashare, non hanno altra scelta che CREARSI dei ricordi. Da qui la nascita delle flash-gang, gruppi di ragazzini spietati e privi di scrupoli che si aggirano armati per le strade delle città, a caccia di ragazze da stuprare in gruppo, o di qualcuno da uccidere, in modo da poter intrappolare quei ricordi nelle loro menti e poterle rivivere tramite Flashback per divertimento.
E' in questo contesto, tramite una scrittura in terza persona che intramezza i punti di vista a capitoli alternati, a svilupparsi la storia di Nick (ex detective, drogato di Flashback, la cui moglie è morta 5 anni prima), quella di Val (il figlio sedicenne di Nick, adolescente privo di valori e membro di una flash-gang) e quella di Leonard (nonno materno di Val, ex professore di lettere, un uomo di 74 anni che ancora non riesce a realizzare che il mondo sia finito così in basso). Nick verrà ingaggiato da un importante leader giapponese a riaprire il caso sull'omicidio del figlio, caso al quale lui stesso aveva indagato 5 anni prima, senza venire a capo di nessuna soluzione. Sembra folle riaprire un caso senza avere nuove prove, ma Nick accetta, accecato dalla promessa di una cospicua ricompensa in denaro, che potrà dilapidare in Flashback, per rivivere il suo passato insieme alla deceduta moglie. Ma nel frattempo il figlio Val si mette nei guai, il nonno Leonard che aveva in custodia il ragazzo cerca di trovare una scappatoia per salvare lui e il nipote e Nick scopre una pista tutta nuova che vedrebbe implicata nell'ingarbugliata faccenda anche l'amata moglie. Le loro vite si intrecceranno per un ultima volta (o forse non ultima) e niente sarà più lo stesso.
La lettura di questo libro è stata a dir poco ipnotica e avvincente. La trama è incredibilmente corposa e nell'arco temporale di sole due settimane (narrate in quasi 600 pagine) succederà di tutto! Ho amato lo stile di scrittura ricco di particolari, che descrive minuziosamente luoghi, azioni e personaggi, ma lo fa in modo talmente spontaneo e lineare che non crea nessun tipo di pesantezza. Certo non è un libro semplice da fagocitare, e richiede una certa concentrazione mentale per potersi calare a 360° nella storia, che, già dall'ambientazione è abbastanza complicata, ma i cui risvolti sono particolarmente vasti. Non è una lettura da spiaggia. Ma se saprete apprezzare lo sconfinato lavoro dell'autore nel ricreare tutti questi particolari e intrecci narrativi, sarà un libro che non dimenticherete tanto facilmente. Io l'ho amato! C'è voluta un'intera settimana a leggerlo senza fretta, cercando il più possibile di assaporarlo in ogni sua sfumatura. E, dato che sono qui a parlarne in toni entusiastici, credo proprio di esserci riuscita! "Flashback" è un romanzo ricco di azione, momenti di suspence, colpi di scena, dove niente è posizionato a caso. Tutte le informazioni che l'autore elargisce generosamente, anche quelle che inizialmente potranno sembrare in eccesso, avranno una spiegazione e un concatenamento importante nella narrazione. La seconda metà del libro vi farà rimanere con il fiato sospeso, e il finale sarà sconcertante, di quelli che non saprete se crederci o no.
Ma "Flashback" non è solo un romanzo con una trama completamente riuscita e ben congegnata. L'autore ha deciso di dare ampio spazio anche alla politica e non mancheranno collegamenti con alcune opere shakespeariane (che purtroppo, essendo io ignorante in materia, sono l'unica parte che non sono riuscita a capire). La politica ha davvero molta importanza ai fini del libro, non solo per quanto riguarda la fanta-politica, ricreata benissimo, ma ci saranno moltissimi rimandi alla politica attuale dei nostri anni, perché saranno le scelte del nostro presente a influenzare il futuro tra vent'anni. Secondo l'autore le scelte sono già state ampiamente fatte e il destino è praticamente segnato, nel scrivere questo libro ha messo in chiaro le sue personali idee politiche (anche se esposte dalla bocca dei suoi personaggi è evidente che è lui stesso a pensarla così), cosa che sicuramente non tutti apprezzeranno. Traspare infatti la tendenza repubblicana dell'autore, che condanna le scelte democratiche dell'attuale presidente Barack Obama, e sostiene che le sue scelte faranno affondare ancora di più la crisi americana. Presa di mira sarà la riforma sanitaria, la crescente disoccupazione, il disarmo nazionale, e anche misure ecologiste delle pale eoliche avranno le loro ampie critiche. Ma senza dubbio, lo spauracchio maggiore dell'autore sono le nazioni straniere, quali il Giappone, il Messico, e soprattutto gli stati islamici. Adesso, non voglio stare a fare disquisizioni politiche in merito alle idee dell'autore, io non mi schiero da nessuna parte, non mi interessa né la destra né la sinistra, per me tutte le scelte politiche fanno schifo, però, da neutrale quale sono devo dire che ho letto con interesse l'argomentazione politica del libro: è ben amalgamata con la storia. Ho trovato così convincenti le ripercussioni descritte che mentre leggevo mi è venuta la pelle d'oca; è uno scenario talmente reale da darmi l'impressione di dare un'occhiata al futuro che verrà, ne sono rimasta molto scossa. Un libro che ha saputo stupirmi, appassionarmi... terrorizzarmi! Se potessi dare il mezzo voto darei 4 stelle e mezzo.(less)

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Jul 11, 2012 Phule77 Erickson rated it 5 of 5 stars

Sadly, most of the reviews for this book on this site seem to amount to "here's how Simmons used a particular window dressing or element in a way that I didn't like or that was something I didn't like to make a point, and, being offended, I'm going to call him a poop head, though I liked his other books".

Which is sad.

The book falls somewhere between Joe Clifford Faust's "A Death of Honor" and Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" in overall tone and form, more the former than the latter, but only in co...more

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Jul 08, 2012 Mike rated it 5 of 5 stars

Allright-put a gun to my head and have me choose one book to recommend.....Without a doubt the first one that comes to mind is Simmon's latest, Flashback. I have been reading Dan Simmons for over two decades and two things come to mind immediately: He keeps getting better with every book and he is the best kept secret in the literary world. Drood and The Terror are both incredible books based on actual non fiction items (Charles Dickens and the HMS Terror) so it is nice to see him switch genres...more

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Jun 11, 2012 Wesley rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: cyberpunk, science-fiction

This is not the Dan Simmons you know from The Hyperion Cantos. This is a Dan Simmons who has plunged into full-on Orson Scott Card libertarian insanity. At first the plot seems like a straightforward noir yarn; in a dystopian US of the near future, a private detective addicted to a drug called Flashback, is hired to solve the murder of a prominent Japanese official's son. A little 1980s with the Japanese imperialism angle but, okay. At first I was bracing myself for gripping twists and turns and...more This is not the Dan Simmons you know from The Hyperion Cantos. This is a Dan Simmons who has plunged into full-on Orson Scott Card libertarian insanity. At first the plot seems like a straightforward noir yarn; in a dystopian US of the near future, a private detective addicted to a drug called Flashback, is hired to solve the murder of a prominent Japanese official's son. A little 1980s with the Japanese imperialism angle but, okay. At first I was bracing myself for gripping twists and turns and maybe even a few literary or mythological allusions. As I read on I found the setting of this desolate future as obnoxious and foolish as an Ayn Rand novel.

In the future portrayed by "Flashback," Barack Obama's election leads the United States into an economic downturn, not because of the housing crisis and deregulation, but because of entitlement spending and Obamacare. Thirty-years later the US has fragmented, the Japanese serve as economic advisers living in their own Green Zones, the government of California (by law) must be run by Hispanics, the largest mosque in history has been built on the former World Trade Center, conservative Islamists missing teeth sell guns and holographic tee-shirts of famous fascists and murderers... and on and on. Oh, and the president is a woman so things must just be terrible. This might have been an intriguing setting if any of this was actually plausible or if it was written as satire.

Questionable political understanding, quiet racism, and disdain is palpable and the plot is lifted from the 1990s film "Strange Days." "Flashback" isn't science-fiction - it's an awkward socio-political screed dressed up in TEA Party style fear-mongering.

I'm sure right wing readers will criticize me with being sensitive as dystopian sci-fi usually takes pot-shots at conservatives. I'm okay with politics I don't agree with. I'm not okay with them being so obvious and blatant that they interrupt the story's flow.

I used to like Dan Simmons but now I think he's a silly man.(less)

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May 25, 2012 Jim rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: science-fiction

I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would ever rate a Dan Simmons novel lower than four stars. Alas, with Flashback I am forced to do just that. This novel does not have the style or grace of Hyperion, the mystical creepiness of Drood or The Terror, the language and subtle poignancy of Muse of Fire, nor the sweeping storylines of Olympos. What it does have is a blatantly alarmist election year diatribe against the current government policies, particulary its lessening of appetite for con...more

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May 23, 2012 Dave rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: crimedetnoir

I like much of Dan Simmons work, but this particular novel is a clunker. The story takes place in the dystopian near future. America has become financially bankrupt and administered by the Japanese government. All because of Obama.

Them damn Muslims have taken over much of the world and administer a kind of new caliphate in what used to be Europe. Also, 9-11 is celebrated as a national holiday in America and kids have become indoctrinated with mandatory Islamic education in schools. All because o...more

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May 23, 2012 Lori L (She Treads Softly) rated it 5 of 5 stars

In Flashback, a dystopian novel by Dan Simmons, many current citizens in a future, fracture United States take flashback, a drug that allows users to revisit past memories in real time as an unseen observer. Former Denver police officer Nick Bottom, is among the citizens addicted to flashback. Rather than living in the present after his wife's death he sent his son to live in L.A. with his father-in-law and is taking flashback to re-live happier times with his wife. Now Nick is out of funds and...more In Flashback, a dystopian novel by Dan Simmons, many current citizens in a future, fracture United States take flashback, a drug that allows users to revisit past memories in real time as an unseen observer. Former Denver police officer Nick Bottom, is among the citizens addicted to flashback. Rather than living in the present after his wife's death he sent his son to live in L.A. with his father-in-law and is taking flashback to re-live happier times with his wife. Now Nick is out of funds and needs to take on a case as a private investigator in order to earn money to feed his addiction.

Japanese billionaire Hiroshi Nakamura hires Nick to investigate the murder of his son, Keigo. The crime was never solved and Nick was one of the officers involved in the investigation six years earlier... before his wife's death and the onset of his flashback addiction. While Nick is just looking for a way to score some more flashback and re-live memories with his wife, Nakamura has other plans and has Sato, his body guard, closely follow Nick and the investigation. But, as in all good mysteries, everything is not quite what it seems to be.

Flashback is part science fiction, part murder mystery, and should appeal to fans of both genres. It is a long novel, 560 pages, but I thought the action in Flashback made the novel move along quickly. (In spite of the fact that it appears I took a long time to read it, in fact, I took a long time to get this review written.)

I was looking forward to reading Flashback, but kept putting it off as the reviews kept rating it lower and lower. Now I know why that likely happened and why I shouldn't have waited. Simmons takes current political and economic events and projects a future based on potential outcomes from these events. Most of the low reviews are seemingly based on people upset that Simmons is blaming the current administration for everything. The thing is Simmons never names names or points fingers - he just extrapolates his future events based on current factual events.

So, what I'm trying to say is that Flashback does not deserve the bad reviews and low ratings. Plenty of other authors are allowed to take conservative or religious ideology and put their own fictional spin on outcomes. Simmons certainly deserves the same right to examine a fictional future outcome. He is also a writer who is talented enough to do it better than most.

Flashback is very well written. The characters are all well developed and believable. Simmons' insights into this future dystopian society are well reasoned and chillingly realistic. Will this future world happen? Most likely not. This is fiction. So, even if you would call yourself a liberal, set politics aside and enjoy this futurist murder mystery. If you are a student of political history who enjoys fiction do yourself a favor and read Flashback.

Obviously Flashback is very highly recommended. http://shetreadssoftly.blogspot.com/
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May 03, 2012 Stephen rated it 1 of 5 stars

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Although it's sometimes a tricky process, I'll never say that writing a Christmas list is a hardship. I feel there's something positive about listing dreams, and although there are times when I'm scared to name the big-picture, long-term, life-changing desires, I'm definitely at home to Mr Capitalist-Consumer.

So this year's Christmas list was an interesting mix of toys - from a kit to build your own camera right the way through to Ponyo on dvd(and just in case you're...more Review lifted from my blog...

Although it's sometimes a tricky process, I'll never say that writing a Christmas list is a hardship. I feel there's something positive about listing dreams, and although there are times when I'm scared to name the big-picture, long-term, life-changing desires, I'm definitely at home to Mr Capitalist-Consumer.

So this year's Christmas list was an interesting mix of toys - from a kit to build your own camera right the way through to Ponyo on dvd(and just in case you're feeling generous - no one got them for me...). It was a masterpiece of an Amazon wishlist...and being Amazon based (and being mine) it featured a fair number of books. I ended up with several choice volumes - a work on Disaster Movies as a genre, Terry Pratchett's 'Snuff' and 'Flashback', a novel by Dan Simmons, author of the superb Ilium and Olympos, as well as the Hyperion and Endymion books. This novel, however, sounded a bit different - still SF, but less far-reaching and potentially less strange. I looked forward to any book brave enough to name its hero Nick Bottom. A book about a drug allowing you to relive your past and how that might work in a Private Investigator-type story. I pictured repeated investigations of memories and the subtleties of experience. The questioning of reality. And, this being a Dan Simmons novel, plenty of literary allusions. And maybe a few literary illusions too.

I am utterly stunned having read it. And not in a good way. I almost feel bad writing this, but then having read 550 pages of hate-filled ranting and raving, I need to exorcise the experience by doing a bit of my own!

I had no idea about Dan Simmons' political ideology prior to reading this novel. I think it's fair to say that none of his ponderings on modern life are a mystery to me now. Whether it's national health care, Islam or modern architecture, no narrative was brave enough to get in the way of page after page of drivel describing how mad, bad and dangerous they all are. Honestly at times it felt like sitting alone with an elderly relative, rendered aggressive by poorly chosen medication, listening to their spittle-barbed tirades against the world as they see it.

This was a detective story! First and foremost it should be about interesting plot twists and a story that keeps you guessing. And yet I would think that at least half of the book was taken up with unimportant discussions of politics which just left me shaking my head in horror. In fact, the few errors I found in the story were so glaringly obvious in part because they stood out by not being a political message about Muslims or Socialism. The 'I'm an evil madman mwahahaha!' speech at the end of the book is followed by the (and I use the word loosely) 'hero' saying that he couldn't help but agree with the gist of the rant. That just doesn't work! I know that good villains should be sympathetic. But there's sympathy and there's...well...there's a scene when a self-proclaimed pacifist fantasises about hanging people from lamp-posts and nuking Muslims!

What's worse, while I've been getting more and more wound up by this book, so it's been eroding much of what I've enjoyed in his previous books. I can now look back and rather than picking out the good, I end up thinking 'Oh yes, yet another 'nice' woman who is dead, an aggressively strong woman who is alive but not to be messed with, and...well...not many other women at all'.

This is my blog. I'm allowed to witter on about whatever I like. Because it's a blog. If this were a novel, it'd be a pretty poor one. But not as poor as Flashback.(less)

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Feb 01, 2012 Gail Katz rated it 3 of 5 stars

Preamble: I am truly not into modern Sci-Fi or the even more revolting Fantasy books.
Both are rather like my problem with being Hindu or Catholic: There are just too many Saints or Gods to remember. I either lose the story line or are not able to find the beauty of the writer's work. It's MY problem and I readily admit it.

That being said, I would classify Flashback as futuristic so therefore is it not Sci Fi? And I enjoyed the book. It was a good read. Like an old fashioned detective story just...more

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About Dan Simmons

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,...more 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 in Colorado.

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His last four years in teaching were spent creating, coordinating, and teaching in APEX, an extensive gifted/talented program serving 19 elementary schools and some 15,000 potential students. During his years of teaching, he won awards from the Colorado Education Association and was a finalist for the Colorado Teacher of the Year. He also worked as a national language-arts consultant, sharing his own "Writing Well" curriculum which he had created for his own classroom. Eleven and twelve-year-old students in Simmons' regular 6th-grade class averaged junior-year in high school writing ability according to annual standardized and holistic writing assessments. Whenever someone says "writing can't be taught," Dan begs to differ and has the track record to prove it. Since becoming a full-time writer, Dan likes to visit college writing classes, has taught in New Hampshire's Odyssey writing program for adults, and is considering hosting his own Windwalker Writers' Workshop.

Dan's first published story appeared on Feb. 15, 1982, the day his daughter, Jane Kathryn, was born. He's always attributed that coincidence to "helping in keeping things in perspective when it comes to the relative importance of writing and life."

Dan has been a full-time writer since 1987 and lives along the Front Range of Colorado -- in the same town where he taught for 14 years -- with his wife, Karen, his daughter, Jane, (when she's home from Hamilton College) and their Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Fergie. He does much of his writing at Windwalker -- their mountain property and cabin at 8,400 feet of altitude at the base of the Continental Divide, just south of Rocky Mountain National Park. An 8-ft.-tall sculpture of the Shrike -- a thorned and frightening character from the four Hyperion/Endymion novels -- was sculpted by an ex-student and friend, Clee Richeson, and the sculpture now stands guard near the isolated cabin.(less)

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