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Dan Simmons


Born
in Peoria, Illinois, The United States
April 04, 1948

Died
February 21, 2026

Genre
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror

Influences
Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, Jack Vance ...more


Dan Simmons was an American science fiction and horror writer. He was the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works that span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. Simmons's genre-intermingling Song of Kali (1985) won the World Fantasy Award. He also wrote mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz. ...more

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Average rating: 4.12 · 925,126 ratings · 59,149 reviews · 293 distinct works • Similar authors
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
4.28 avg rating — 308,000 ratings — published 1989 — 188 editions
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The Fall of Hyperion (Hyper...
4.25 avg rating — 152,375 ratings — published 1990 — 137 editions
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The Terror
4.09 avg rating — 76,528 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
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Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 72,380 ratings — published 1996 — 101 editions
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The Rise of Endymion (Hyper...
4.17 avg rating — 66,510 ratings — published 1997 — 81 editions
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Ilium (Ilium, #1)
4.04 avg rating — 32,816 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions
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Summer of Night (Seasons of...
4.05 avg rating — 29,422 ratings — published 1991 — 79 editions
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Carrion Comfort
3.91 avg rating — 25,958 ratings — published 1989 — 51 editions
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Olympos (Ilium, #2)
3.96 avg rating — 20,883 ratings — published 2005 — 45 editions
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Drood
3.55 avg rating — 17,811 ratings — published 2009 — 65 editions
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Series by Dan Simmons

Hyperion The Fall of Hyperion Endymion The Rise of Endymion
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Ilium Olympos
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4.01 avg rating — 54,862 ratings

Summer of Night Children of the Night Fires of Eden A Winter Haunting
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3.87 avg rating — 51,001 ratings

Hardcase Hard Freeze Hard as Nails
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3.78 avg rating — 5,922 ratings

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Quotes by Dan Simmons  (?)
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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
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“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, Hyperion
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“It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.”
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The Help
 
  1121 votes 17.3%

The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
 
  653 votes 10.1%

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  319 votes 4.9%

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  315 votes 4.8%

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  307 votes 4.7%

The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
 
  292 votes 4.5%

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  228 votes 3.5%

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  226 votes 3.5%

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
 
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  134 votes 2.1%

This is Where I Leave You
 
  130 votes 2.0%

Little Bee
 
  126 votes 1.9%

Brooklyn
 
  119 votes 1.8%

Drood
 
  107 votes 1.6%

The Children's Book
 
  104 votes 1.6%

A Reliable Wife
 
  103 votes 1.6%

A Gate at the Stairs
 
  96 votes 1.5%

The Weight of Silence
 
  91 votes 1.4%

That Old Cape Magic
 
  77 votes 1.2%

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
 
  69 votes 1.1%

Await Your Reply
 
  69 votes 1.1%

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
 
  62 votes 1.0%

The School of Essential Ingredients
 
  60 votes 0.9%

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