Dan Simmons

[Dave]

Dan Simmons

born Peoria, Illinois: 4 April 1948

Dan Simmons is an American author of science fiction, horror, and fantasy, in short stories and novels, often all three genres within a single novel. He was also a school teacher.

His first published SFF short story was The River Styx Runs Upstream (1982) in The Twilight Zone Magazine. For many years he was known only as an author of tales of horror.

His first published SFF novel, Song of Kali (1985), is set in modern day Calcutta and concerns the release of an ancient evil. His second novel, Carrion Comfort (1989), serialised in Omni magazine was also a horror concerning mutant humans.

He is best known for the novels in his Hyperion Cantos series, beginning with Hyperion (1989), which deal with a space war; for the Seasons of Horror series, beginning with Summer of Night (1991); and for The Hollow Man (1992), a novel influenced by Dante.

Other works of note are The Terror (2007) which is both a horror and a historical fiction.

A list of his works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: Dan Simmons

Wikipedia page: Dan Simmons - Wikipedia

 

[SilentRoamer]

Hyperion is an excellent book, one of my absolute favourites. The shrike is terrifying and the stylised writing which mirrors the Canterbury Tales is fantastic.

Endymion goes a different route than I was expecting and to me didn't capture the magic that Hyperion did.

 

[Elckerlyc]

Hyperion together with The Fall of Hyperion remain solid in my top 10 of favourites.
I found The Terror a struggle to read, but the 10 part TV-series based on the novel was excellent.

 

[elvet]

Agreed about Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion and I enjoyed the Endymion books as well. I checked on Goodreads, read them in 2010, gave all a 4/5 star review.

 

[Rodders]

A great author, IMO.

My first of his was The Summer of Night, which i enjoyed very much. The Hyperion series was excellent and very enjoyable. I did read Carrion Comfort too. It was long, at over 1000 pages, but i'm not sure the story warrented it. I've not read anything recent of his.