Dan Simmons

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 show more 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) show less

Includes the names: Dan Simmons, Dan Simmons, M.D. Dan Simmons, דן סימונס, Дан Симънс, ダンシモンズ, Дэн Симмонс, Ден Сіммонс

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Series

Works by Dan Simmons

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Hyperion (1989) 11,813 copies

The Fall of Hyperion (1989) 6,697 copies

The Terror (2007) 4,754 copies

Endymion (1996) — Author — 4,456 copies

Ilium (2003) 4,188 copies

The Rise of Endymion (1997) — Author — 4,054 copies

Drood: A Novel (2009) 3,018 copies

Olympos (2005) 2,907 copies

Carrion Comfort (1989) 2,132 copies

Summer of Night (1991) 1,935 copies

Song of Kali (1985) 1,778 copies

Children of the Night (1992) 1,282 copies

A Winter Haunting (2002) 1,019 copies

The Hollow Man (1992) 964 copies

The Hyperion Omnibus [2-in-1] (1989) 786 copies

Flashback (2011) 711 copies

The Abominable (2013) 689 copies

Black Hills (2010) 629 copies

Prayers To Broken Stones (1991) 628 copies

Phases of Gravity (1989) 573 copies

Darwin's Blade (2000) 511 copies

Worlds Enough & Time: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction (2002) 501 copies

Lovedeath (1993) 493 copies

The Fifth Heart (2015) 480 copies

Hardcase (2001) 463 copies

The Crook Factory (1999) 447 copies

Fires of Eden (1994) 423 copies

Hard Freeze (2002) 337 copies

Hard as Nails (2003) 308 copies

The Endymion Omnibus [2-in-1] (1996) 271 copies

Hyperion, Part 1 (1989) 236 copies

The Fall of Hyperion, Part 1 (1990) 193 copies

Muse of Fire (2007) 191 copies

Hyperion, Part 2 (1989) 186 copies

The Fall of Hyperion, Part 2 (1990) 172 copies

Carrion Comfort, Part 2 of 2 (1992) 150 copies

Carrion Comfort, Part 1 of 2 (1992) 148 copies

Endymion, Part 1 (1995) 108 copies

The Rise of Endymion, Part 2 (1997) 107 copies

Endymion, Part 2 (1996) 105 copies

The Rise of Endymion, Part 1 (1997) 105 copies

The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion / The Fall of Hyperion / Endymion / The Rise of Endymion (1990) 91 copies

Ilium, Part 1 (2003) 78 copies

Ilium, Part 2 (2003) 75 copies

The Guiding Nose of Ulfant Banderoz (2009) 48 copies

Olympos, Part 1 (2005) 46 copies

Orphans of the Helix (Hyperion Cantos #4.5) (2017) 46 copies

Olympos, Part 2 (2005) 39 copies

This Year's Class Picture (2015) 30 copies

Carrion Comfort. Part 2 of 4 (1995) 29 copies

Carrion Comfort. Part 1 of 4 (1995) 27 copies

Carrion Comfort. Part 3 of 4 (1995) 26 copies

Carrion Comfort. Part 4 of 4 (1995) 25 copies

Summer Sketches (1992) 23 copies

Iverson's Pits (2003) 19 copies

Omega Canyon (2019) 13 copies

Going After the Rubber Chicken (1991) 9 copies

Banished Dreams (1990) 9 copies

Entropy's Bed at Midnight (1990) 8 copies

[unidentified works] 8 copies

Olimp (Ilium #2) (2010) 8 copies

E-ticket To Namland (1987) 8 copies

Looking for Kelly Dahl {novella} 8 copies

Le conseiller et autres nouvelles (1999) 8 copies

Negative Spaces: Two Talks (numbered limited edition of 300) (signed) (1999) 7 copies

Metastasis 7 copies

Shave And A Haircut Two Bites 7 copies

Flashback {short story} (2011) 7 copies

Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds [short fiction] 7 copies

The Terror: Volume 1 (2011) 6 copies

Carrion Comfort [original novella] 6 copies

Vanni Fucci is Alive and Well and Living in 'Hell' (in Dark Visions -KING) 6 copies

The Great Lover (2014) 6 copies

Elm Haven: Zwei Romane in einem Band (2019) 5 copies

La mort du centaure 5 copies

On K2 with Kanakaredes 5 copies

Bifrost n°101 - dossier Dan Simmons (2021) 5 copies

Modlitwy do rozbitych kamieni. Czas wszystek, światy wszystkie. Miłość i śmierć (2023) 4 copies

Death in Bangkok 4 copies

Song of Kali (Fantasy Masterworks) by Simmons, Dan (2008) Paperback 3 copies

The Terror: Volume 2 (2011) 3 copies

The River Styx Runs Upstream {short story} 3 copies

Ilium and Olympos 3 copies

Madame Bovary C'est Moi (short story) (2000) 3 copies

Remembering Siri {short story} 3 copies

Vexed to Nightmare By a Rocking Cradle {short story} 3 copies

Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams {short story} 3 copies

Robots: Collection Rolf Fehlbaum (1999) 2 copies

Dying Is Easy Comedy is Hard — Author — 2 copies

Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1) (2009) 2 copies

Hardcase / Hard Freeze / Hard as Nails (2006) 2 copies

The Vanishing 2 copies

My Private Memoirs of the Hoffer Stigmata Pandemic 2 copies

Carrion Comfort, Part 1 of 3 (1998) 2 copies

Carrion Comfort, Part 3 of 3 (1998) 2 copies

The Hollow Man / Muse of Fire (2011) 2 copies

Summer of Night, Part 2 of 2 (1999) 1 copy

The Offering [teleplay] 1 copy

Ilium & Olympos, Part 1 of 7 1 copy

Hyperion (2023) 1 copy

The Abominable by Dan Simmons (2-Jan-2014) Paperback 1 copy

L'échiquier du mal 1 1 copy

Hyperion 1 copy

Pad Hyperiona : roman (1994) 1 copy

Ilium & Olympos, Part 2 of 7 1 copy

Summer of Night, Part 1 of 2 (1999) 1 copy

Hyperion & Endymion 1 (2008) 1 copy

All Dracula's Children 1 copy

Speaking of the Fantastic: Interviews with Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors 1 copy

The Offering {short story} 1 copy

Ilium & Olympos, Part 3 of 7 1 copy

Carrion Comfort, Part 2 of 3 (1998) 1 copy

The End of Gravity 1 copy

The Ninth of Av 1 copy

エンディミオン〈上〉 (ハヤカワ文庫SF) (2002) 1 copy

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Associated Works

Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories (1993) — Introduction — 1,062 copies

The Living Dead (2008) — Contributor — 920 copies

Far Horizons (1999) — Contributor — 774 copies

Songs of the Dying Earth (2009) — Contributor — 639 copies

The New Space Opera (2007) — Contributor — 559 copies

Dark Visions (1988) — Contributor — 534 copies

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection (2002) — Contributor — 526 copies

The Ultimate Dracula (1991) — Contributor — 490 copies

Flight or Fright (2018) — Contributor — 467 copies

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection (1994) — Contributor — 438 copies

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection (1996) — Contributor — 421 copies

The Space Opera Renaissance (2007) — Contributor — 283 copies

Year's Best SF 6 (2001) — Contributor — 283 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection (1994) — Contributor — 254 copies

Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction (2001) — Contributor — 252 copies

Blood Is Not Enough: 17 Stories of Vampirism (1989) — Contributor — 221 copies

Midnight Graffiti (1992) — Contributor — 220 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Second Annual Collection (1987) — Contributor — 199 copies

The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Contributor — 186 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection (1988) — Contributor — 182 copies

The Further Adventures of the Joker (1990) — Contributor — 159 copies

Southern Blood: Vampire Stories from the American South (1997) — Contributor — 147 copies

Book of the Dead 2: Still Dead (1954) 134 copies

The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection (1984) — Contributor — 132 copies

Little Deaths (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 132 copies

Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror (2010) — Contributor — 129 copies

Vampires: The Greatest Stories (1997) — Contributor — 122 copies

Futures from Nature (2007) — Contributor — 113 copies

A Taste for Blood (1992) — Contributor — 108 copies

Science Fiction: The Best of 2001 (2002) — Contributor — 95 copies

Darker Masques (2002) — Contributor — 85 copies

Between Time and Terror (1995) — Contributor — 78 copies

The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction (1983) — Contributor — 74 copies

The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction (1985) — Contributor — 49 copies

The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook: No. 1 (1988) — Contributor — 49 copies

Freak Show (1970) — Contributor — 49 copies

Civil War Ghosts (2006) — Contributor — 43 copies

Obsessions (1991) — Contributor, some editions — 29 copies

Angels of Darkness: Tales of Troubled and Troubling Women (1995) — Contributor — 27 copies

Masques III: All-New Works of Horror and the Supernatural (1989) — Contributor — 24 copies

Omni Best Science Fiction Two (1992) — Contributor — 23 copies

Masques IV (1991) — Contributor — 17 copies

Omni Visions Two (1994) — Contributor — 14 copies

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 12 [December 1986] (1986) — Contributor — 13 copies

Destination 3001 (2000) — Contributor — 12 copies

High Fantastic: Colorado's Fantasy, Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction (1995) — Contributor — 6 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Simmons, Dan
Birthdate: 1948-04-04
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Peoria, Illinois, USA
Education: Wabash College (AB|English|1970)
Washington University, St. Louis (MEd|1971)
Occupations: writer
novelist
teacher (high school English)
Awards and honors: World Horror Convention Grand Master Award (2013)
Short biography: 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.

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Reviews

Drood by Dan Simmons

DNF. Started this because I thought it would be a continuation of The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens, or at least related to that story. Not. At. All. So I was disappointed by that, so much so that it colored my whole reading experience. Why even bring Drood in at all? I think the story would have benefited by naming the Drood character something else entirely, because there's absolutely no connection to the unfinished novel.

I enjoy both Dickens and Collins as novelists, and I know something of their individual and shared histories. In this case, the burden of knowledge really interfered with my enjoyment of Drood. Plus, I just found narrative to be plodding and the characters unlikable. I've enjoyed other Simmons books but this was a miss for me.… (more)

½

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TheGalaxyGirl | 157 other reviews | May 28, 2024 |

The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Here I find that I’m moderately interested in the underlying story (two factions of humanity, one enmeshed with AI and one not, fighting it out or possibly fighting against the total destruction of humanity) while still not liking the writing style or characters very much. Still annoying: all characters who have sex experience it the same way, which includes a man getting raped by a woman (his former lover, who he currently considers an enemy), and then later deciding that he wanted it because he still loved her; the woman’s actions are treated as generally commendable and she is in fact presented as the embodiment of innocent heroism, although the rape was entirely extraneous to her mission.… (more)

½

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rivkat | 123 other reviews | May 24, 2024 |

Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, Book 1) by Dan Simmons

My son really liked this sf novel, so I gave it a try. I did not like it. It’s a Canterbury Tales-style story of linked stories, where each pilgrim is heading to the world of Hyperion, where the Shrike—a remorseless killer worshiped by one human sect—will allegedly grant one pilgrim’s wish while killing the rest. Despite the very different backgrounds of the pilgrims, their voices merged together for me. Pet peeve: there’s a woman who has “her father’s pistol”—it’s called that literally every time it shows up, which is a lot (in the next volume it’s “the pistol” once, I think), but it does not represent anything about her relationship with her father nor is that relationship otherwise important to her story and she’s had it for many years, so it’s her fucking pistol, thanks.… (more)

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rivkat | 275 other reviews | May 24, 2024 |

The Fall of Hyperion [Lingua Inglese]: 2 by Dan Simmons

Really liked the individual stories, and the audiobook is well done. I was a little disappointed about the story not finishing until the next book.

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