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Dan Simmons

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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 visa mer 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) visa färre
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Serier

Verk av Dan Simmons

Hyperion (1989) 11,618 exemplar
The Fall of Hyperion (1989) 6,610 exemplar
The Terror (2007) 4,668 exemplar
Endymion (1996) — Författare — 4,428 exemplar
Ilium (2003) 4,152 exemplar
The Rise of Endymion (1997) — Författare — 4,016 exemplar
Drood (2009) 2,997 exemplar
Olympos (2005) 2,884 exemplar
Carrion Comfort (1989) 2,100 exemplar
Nattsommar (1991) 1,903 exemplar
Dödsgudinnans sång (1985) 1,761 exemplar
Nattens barn (1992) 1,268 exemplar
A Winter Haunting (2002) 1,010 exemplar
The Hollow Man (1992) 953 exemplar
The Hyperion Omnibus [2-in-1] (1989) 782 exemplar
Flashback (2011) 693 exemplar
The Abominable (2013) 671 exemplar
Prayers To Broken Stones (1991) 624 exemplar
Black Hills (2010) 621 exemplar
Månens dragningskraft (1989) 568 exemplar
Darwin's Blade (2000) 508 exemplar
Lovedeath (1993) 485 exemplar
The Fifth Heart (2015) 472 exemplar
Hardcase (2001) 458 exemplar
The Crook Factory (1999) 445 exemplar
Fires of Eden (1994) 418 exemplar
Hard Freeze (2002) 335 exemplar
Hard as Nails (2003) 306 exemplar
The Endymion Omnibus [2-in-1] (1996) 270 exemplar
Hyperion, Part 1 (1989) 235 exemplar
The Fall of Hyperion, Part 1 (1990) 192 exemplar
Muse of Fire (2007) 190 exemplar
Hyperion, Part 2 (1989) 185 exemplar
The Fall of Hyperion, Part 2 (1990) 171 exemplar
Carrion Comfort, Part 2 of 2 (1992) 148 exemplar
Carrion Comfort, Part 1 of 2 (1992) 148 exemplar
Endymion, Part 1 (1995) 107 exemplar
The Rise of Endymion, Part 2 (1997) 105 exemplar
Endymion, Part 2 (1996) 104 exemplar
The Rise of Endymion, Part 1 (1997) 104 exemplar
Ilium, Part 1 (2003) 78 exemplar
Ilium, Part 2 (2003) 75 exemplar
Olympos, Part 1 (2005) 46 exemplar
Olympos, Part 2 (2005) 39 exemplar
This Year's Class Picture (2015) 30 exemplar
Carrion Comfort. Part 2 of 4 (1995) 29 exemplar
Carrion Comfort. Part 1 of 4 (1995) 27 exemplar
Carrion Comfort. Part 3 of 4 (1995) 26 exemplar
Carrion Comfort. Part 4 of 4 (1995) 25 exemplar
Summer Sketches (1992) 23 exemplar
Iverson's Pits (2003) 19 exemplar
Omega Canyon (2019) 13 exemplar
Banished Dreams (1990) 9 exemplar
E-ticket To Namland (1987) 8 exemplar
Olimp (Ilium #2) (2010) 8 exemplar
Entropy's Bed at Midnight (1990) 8 exemplar
Flashback {short story} (2011) 7 exemplar
Metastasis 7 exemplar
The Terror: Volume 1 (2011) 6 exemplar
The Great Lover (2014) 6 exemplar
Death in Bangkok 4 exemplar
Ilium and Olympos 3 exemplar
The Terror: Volume 2 (2011) 3 exemplar
Dying Is Easy Comedy is Hard — Författare — 2 exemplar
The Vanishing 2 exemplar
Carrion Comfort, Part 3 of 3 (1998) 2 exemplar
Carrion Comfort, Part 1 of 3 (1998) 2 exemplar
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

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Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories (1993) — Inledning — 1,059 exemplar
The Living Dead (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 916 exemplar
Far Horizons (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 770 exemplar
Songs of the Dying Earth (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 629 exemplar
The New Space Opera (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 547 exemplar
Dark Visions (1988) — Bidragsgivare — 527 exemplar
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 521 exemplar
The Ultimate Dracula (1991) — Bidragsgivare — 483 exemplar
Flight or Fright (2018) — Bidragsgivare — 444 exemplar
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 431 exemplar
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 417 exemplar
The Space Opera Renaissance (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 282 exemplar
Year's Best SF 6 (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 278 exemplar
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 254 exemplar
Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 250 exemplar
Blood Is Not Enough: 17 Stories of Vampirism (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 219 exemplar
Midnight Graffiti (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 219 exemplar
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Second Annual Collection (1987) — Bidragsgivare — 199 exemplar
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection (1988) — Bidragsgivare — 184 exemplar
The Further Adventures of the Joker (1990) — Bidragsgivare — 156 exemplar
Southern Blood: Vampire Stories from the American South (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 145 exemplar
Book of the Dead 2: Still Dead (1954) 133 exemplar
The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 131 exemplar
Little Deaths (1995) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor131 exemplar
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 129 exemplar
Vampires: The Greatest Stories (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 121 exemplar
Futures from Nature (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 113 exemplar
A Taste for Blood (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 107 exemplar
Science Fiction: The Best of 2001 (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 95 exemplar
Darker Masques (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 84 exemplar
Between Time and Terror (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 76 exemplar
The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction (1983) — Bidragsgivare — 73 exemplar
Freak Show (1970) — Bidragsgivare — 49 exemplar
The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 47 exemplar
The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook: No. 1 (1988) — Bidragsgivare — 47 exemplar
Civil War Ghosts (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 42 exemplar
Obsessions (1991) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor29 exemplar
Angels of Darkness: Tales of Troubled and Troubling Women (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 27 exemplar
Masques III: All-New Works of Horror and the Supernatural (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 24 exemplar
Omni Best Science Fiction Two (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 22 exemplar
Masques IV (1991) — Bidragsgivare — 17 exemplar
Omni Visions Two (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 14 exemplar
Destination 3001 (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar

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Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Simmons, Dan
Födelsedag
1948-04-04
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Peoria, Illinois, USA
Utbildning
Wabash College (AB|English|1970)
Washington University, St. Louis (MEd|1971)
Yrken
writer
novelist
teacher (high school English)
Priser och utmärkelser
World Horror Convention Grand Master Award (2013)
Kort biografi
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.

Medlemmar

Diskussioner

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

Recensioner

What if the Greek epic of Troy were a science fiction, and there were kind-of immortal humans on Earth who got to meet Odysseus, and then in the space of six hundred pages those involved in the sci fi fighting of Troy never met up with the cast of characters on Earth? Why, then you'd have a somewhat frustrating lump of a book that is really more like two books, and then towards the end you'll realise that of course this is the first in a series, and that it's just a little bit too much work to read more in the series and so all the problems and mysteries set up across these six hundred pages will have to remain mysterious for you.… (mer)
 
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soylentgreen23 | 64 andra recensioner | Mar 16, 2024 |
I enjoyed the factual items included about Dickens and Collins but felt that the plot could have been tighter. Employing a narrator who cannpt be trusted is a time honored tradition and I loved the idea of using Wilkie collins as such, but was aghast at the result. I admit, I am biased. I remember reading my first Wilkie Collins the summer between 8th grade and high-school and it was such a joy. I object to his portrayal in the book, mainly because it is well researched and I fear people could take some of the fiction seriously because it is couched in so much fact.… (mer)
 
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cspiwak | 156 andra recensioner | Mar 6, 2024 |
I've read quite a few of Dan Simmons' novels and have enjoyed them all. I was somewhat concerned by the low ratings I saw some readers here and on Amazon giving this book, thinking that maybe it wasn't up to Simmons' normally high standards. Well, after reading Flashback, let me assure you this book while different than other books he's written, is every bit as excellent as any of his earlier works including Carrion Comfort. The world he's created here is dark but believable and the character development is excellent as always.

Perhaps the reason for the negative reviews is that the author tells it like it and completely ignores political correctness. Reading this book made it easy for me to understand why it was one of the top best selling thrillers of 2011.
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davidgloer | 42 andra recensioner | Feb 21, 2024 |
As a huge Dan Simmons fan I wanted to love this book as much as his other works. HOWEVER...This book was released right between The Crook Factory and The Abominable. Both of those books are Mona Lisa's in the author's list of works. How does Simmons do it? Coming off his Sci Fi binge into his historical fiction era Darwin's Blade slices right through the action and inserts itself into its own little niche. This book is fast, to the point and will give you whiplash if you are not ready for it.
I am sure I am not the only person who noticed this...Taking into account the timeline when it was written which at the time the internet was still a fledgling tool. This book is string of Darwin awards stories chained together in a pretty good action story. At that time on the internet these stories were in heavy circulation and the Darwin Awards website was one of the most heavily visited online. Literally every death in this book is on that website. Yet somehow, Simmons being the genius he is manages to take us on an edge of our seats ride. The action in this book is second to none and scathing. The research Simmons did in order to tell this story is amazing. I will say that I did not like the Character of Darwin very much. His macho over the top actionesque machismo is nearly 007ish. But the story is good, the last few pages are kind of pointless but the contrast is there. Simmons just could not resist another Darwin award without closing the story. Considering he did this and did not give more background on the motivations of the criminals left me wanting a little more. This is Dan Simmons though... He has shown his readers that he is capable of writing in any genre and doing it better than the contemporaries of said genre... he gets a pass.
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JHemlock | 9 andra recensioner | Feb 13, 2024 |

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ISBN
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