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Dan Simmons

Autor(a) de Hyperion

113+ Works 61,040 Membros 1,515 Críticas 273 Favorited

About the Author

Science fiction writer Dan Simmons was born in East Peoria, Illinois in 1948. He graduated from Wabash College in 1970 and received an M. A. from Washington University the following year. Simmons was an elementary school teacher and worked in the education field for a decade, including working to mostrar mais develop a gifted education program. His first successful short story was won a contest and was published in 1982. His first novel, Song of Kali, won a World Fantasy Award, and Simmons has also won a Theodore Sturgeon Award for short fiction, four Bram Stoker Awards, and eight Locus Awards. He is also the author of the Hyperion series, and Simmons and his work have been compared to Herbert's Dune and Asimov's Foundation series. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries

Obras por Dan Simmons

Hyperion (1989) 11,619 exemplares
The Fall of Hyperion (1989) 6,611 exemplares
The Terror (2007) 4,669 exemplares
Endymion (1996) — Autor — 4,429 exemplares
Ilium (2003) 4,153 exemplares
The Rise of Endymion (1997) — Autor — 4,017 exemplares
Drood (2009) 2,998 exemplares
Olympos (2005) 2,885 exemplares
Carrion Comfort (1989) 2,101 exemplares
Summer of Night (1991) 1,903 exemplares
Song of Kali (1985) 1,761 exemplares
Children of the Night (1992) 1,269 exemplares
A Winter Haunting (2002) 1,010 exemplares
The Hollow Man (1992) 954 exemplares
The Hyperion Omnibus [2-in-1] (1989) 782 exemplares
Flashback (2011) 694 exemplares
The Abominable (2013) 672 exemplares
Prayers To Broken Stones (1991) 624 exemplares
Black Hills (2010) 621 exemplares
Phases of Gravity (1989) 568 exemplares
Darwin's Blade (2000) 508 exemplares
Lovedeath (1993) 485 exemplares
The Fifth Heart (2015) 473 exemplares
Hardcase (2001) 458 exemplares
The Crook Factory (1999) 445 exemplares
Fires of Eden (1994) 418 exemplares
Hard Freeze (2002) 335 exemplares
Hard as Nails (2003) 306 exemplares
The Endymion Omnibus [2-in-1] (1996) 270 exemplares
Hyperion, Part 1 (1989) 235 exemplares
The Fall of Hyperion, Part 1 (1990) 192 exemplares
Muse of Fire (2007) 190 exemplares
Hyperion, Part 2 (1989) 185 exemplares
The Fall of Hyperion, Part 2 (1990) 171 exemplares
Carrion Comfort, Part 2 of 2 (1992) 148 exemplares
Carrion Comfort, Part 1 of 2 (1992) 148 exemplares
Endymion, Part 1 (1995) 107 exemplares
The Rise of Endymion, Part 2 (1997) 105 exemplares
Endymion, Part 2 (1996) 104 exemplares
The Rise of Endymion, Part 1 (1997) 104 exemplares
Ilium, Part 1 (2003) 78 exemplares
Ilium, Part 2 (2003) 75 exemplares
Olympos, Part 1 (2005) 46 exemplares
Olympos, Part 2 (2005) 39 exemplares
This Year's Class Picture (2015) 30 exemplares
Carrion Comfort. Part 2 of 4 (1995) 29 exemplares
Carrion Comfort. Part 1 of 4 (1995) 27 exemplares
Carrion Comfort. Part 3 of 4 (1995) 26 exemplares
Carrion Comfort. Part 4 of 4 (1995) 25 exemplares
Summer Sketches (1992) 23 exemplares
Iverson's Pits (2003) 19 exemplares
Omega Canyon (2019) 13 exemplares
Going After the Rubber Chicken (1991) 9 exemplares
Banished Dreams (1990) 9 exemplares
E-ticket To Namland (1987) 8 exemplares
Olimp (Ilium #2) (2010) 8 exemplares
Entropy's Bed at Midnight (1990) 8 exemplares
[unidentified works] 8 exemplares
Flashback {short story} (2011) 7 exemplares
Metastasis 7 exemplares
The Terror: Volume 1 (2011) 6 exemplares
The Great Lover (2014) 6 exemplares
La mort du centaure 5 exemplares
Death in Bangkok 4 exemplares
Ilium and Olympos 3 exemplares
The Terror: Volume 2 (2011) 3 exemplares
Dying Is Easy Comedy is Hard — Autor — 2 exemplares
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1) (2009) 2 exemplares
The Vanishing 2 exemplares
Carrion Comfort, Part 3 of 3 (1998) 2 exemplares
The Hollow Man / Muse of Fire (2011) 2 exemplares
Carrion Comfort, Part 1 of 3 (1998) 2 exemplares
Summer of Night, Part 2 of 2 (1999) 1 exemplar
Pad Hyperiona : roman (1994) 1 exemplar
The End of Gravity 1 exemplar
Hyperion (2023) 1 exemplar
The Ninth of Av 1 exemplar
Hyperion & Endymion 1 (2008) 1 exemplar
Summer of Night, Part 1 of 2 (1999) 1 exemplar
Carrion Comfort, Part 2 of 3 (1998) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories (1993) — Introdução — 1,059 exemplares
The Living Dead (2008) — Contribuidor — 916 exemplares
Far Horizons (1999) — Contribuidor — 770 exemplares
Songs of the Dying Earth (2009) — Contribuidor — 629 exemplares
The New Space Opera (2007) — Contribuidor — 547 exemplares
Dark Visions (1988) — Contribuidor — 527 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection (2002) — Contribuidor — 521 exemplares
The Ultimate Dracula (1991) — Contribuidor — 483 exemplares
Flight or Fright (2018) — Contribuidor — 444 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection (1994) — Contribuidor — 431 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection (1996) — Contribuidor — 417 exemplares
The Space Opera Renaissance (2007) — Contribuidor — 282 exemplares
Year's Best SF 6 (2001) — Contribuidor — 278 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection (1994) — Contribuidor — 254 exemplares
Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction (2001) — Contribuidor — 250 exemplares
Blood Is Not Enough: 17 Stories of Vampirism (1989) — Contribuidor — 219 exemplares
Midnight Graffiti (1992) — Contribuidor — 219 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Second Annual Collection (1987) — Contribuidor — 199 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection (1988) — Contribuidor — 184 exemplares
The Further Adventures of the Joker (1990) — Contribuidor — 156 exemplares
Southern Blood: Vampire Stories from the American South (1997) — Contribuidor — 145 exemplares
Book of the Dead 2: Still Dead (1954) 133 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection (1984) — Contribuidor — 131 exemplares
Little Deaths (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições131 exemplares
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror (2010) — Contribuidor — 129 exemplares
Vampires: The Greatest Stories (1997) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
Futures from Nature (2007) — Contribuidor — 113 exemplares
A Taste for Blood (1992) — Contribuidor — 107 exemplares
Science Fiction: The Best of 2001 (2002) — Contribuidor — 95 exemplares
Darker Masques (2002) — Contribuidor — 84 exemplares
Between Time and Terror (1995) — Contribuidor — 76 exemplares
The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction (1983) — Contribuidor — 73 exemplares
Freak Show (1970) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction (1985) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook: No. 1 (1988) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
Civil War Ghosts (2006) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
Obsessions (1991) — Contribuidor, algumas edições29 exemplares
Angels of Darkness: Tales of Troubled and Troubling Women (1995) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
Masques III: All-New Works of Horror and the Supernatural (1989) — Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
Omni Best Science Fiction Two (1992) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Masques IV (1991) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Omni Visions Two (1994) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Destination 3001 (2000) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Simmons, Dan
Data de nascimento
1948-04-04
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Peoria, Illinois, USA
Educação
Wabash College (AB|English|1970)
Washington University, St. Louis (MEd|1971)
Ocupações
writer
novelist
teacher (high school English)
Prémios e menções honrosas
World Horror Convention Grand Master Award (2013)

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Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works which span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. Simmons' genre-intermingling Song of Kali (1985) won the World Fantasy Award. He also writes mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz.

Born in Peoria, Illinois, Simmons received a B.A. in English from Wabash College in 1970 and, in 1971, a Masters in Education from Washington University in St. Louis.

He soon started writing short stories, although his career did not take off until 1982, when, through Harlan Ellison's help, his short story "The River Styx Runs Upstream" was published and awarded first prize in a Twilight Zone Magazine story competition, and he was taken on as a client by Ellison's agent, Richard Curtis. Simmons' first novel, Song of Kali, was released in 1985.

He worked in elementary education until 1989.

Membros

Discussions

Would you Drood with me? *Spoilers May Lurk Here* em The Green Dragon (Agosto 2022)
Historical Horror Novels by Dan Simmons em Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night (Abril 2009)
science fiction book em Name that Book (Dezembro 2008)

Críticas

Note: read this during quarantine. Having read The Terror of Dan Simmons, I did expect much from Abominable. There are similarities but In many ways , Abominable just doesn’t deliver the same amount of wonder and suspense.
In fact, it is quite slow moving and quite unlike a typical Simmons, rather predictable. Moreover, I found all that had to do with early nazism a bit ahistorical and cliched.
Be that as it may, there is some good writing and there are points of interests. It is just not in the league of most of Simmons excellent work.
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nitrolpost | 38 outras críticas | Mar 19, 2024 |
“In the rainy March 1893 for reasons that no one understands primarily because no one besides us is aware of this story, the London-based American Henry James decided to ..."
And thus begins the Fifth Heart❤️ a 2015 novel by Dan Simmons of Hyperion Cantos fame.
Two characters, Henry James realist-literary writer of Victorian age and an imaginary contemporary but no less eminent Sherlock Holmes, team up to solve a literary conundrum and detective mystery par excellence.
Readers of Simmon's Drood will find familiar elements here but so will anybody who has been introduced to a certain private detective of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's seminal fiction - which is just about anyone.

Again, Dan Simmons does not disappoint. Not only are his historical and fictional characters skillfully researched, splendidly imagined and by the gifts of this thoroughly talented writer's pen fluidly ensconced in a meticulously researched environment but also woven into plot line that is as just as imaginative as it is convincing. Morover, when halfway through the book, Samuel Clemens - better known as Mark Twain - takes the stage, Mr. Simmons outshines himself. Managing a remake of the literary persona of the imminent American writer, Simmons’ Twain is as humorous and audacious as the trademark Missourian in the flesh, inclusive a fitting Southern plantation accent, if you have access to the audio version that is. Mr. Simmons convincingly recreates the time and localities of the past, the Grantian gilded age where his characters can feel truly at home.

Summa summarum, Mr. Simmons has excelled at his craft, once more. Persistently and consistently he be-gifts us with, once every couple of years, with a quality work of fiction of which this latest work is only proof. He is, however, at the top of his game when he brings close to us the lives of historical characters, well-crafted and embellished to produce a fictional life based on a solid historical fundament. It is then when he tends to deliver a true masterpiece.
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nitrolpost | 35 outras críticas | Mar 19, 2024 |
Like all of Simmon’s this is worth the read. It is not quite in a league with his epic Hyperion saga though.
 
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nitrolpost | 65 outras críticas | Mar 19, 2024 |
What if paradigms do not shift as we understand the world conceptually different. What if such new concepts, if universally comprehensive, produce switch points that force a branching path into an alternate world in the world tree. Yeah, enough of that
 
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nitrolpost | 15 outras críticas | Mar 19, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
113
Also by
46
Membros
61,040
Popularidade
#235
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
1,515
ISBN
979
Línguas
25
Marcado como favorito
273

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