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- Legal Name: Simmons, Dan
- Birthplace: Peoria, Illinois, USA
- Birthdate: 4 April 1948
- Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Simmons
- IMDB Entry: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0799721/
- Webpage: http://www.dansimmons.com/
- Webpage: http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/simmons_dan
- Interviews: Dan Simmons: Hyperion Revealed , Dan Simmons: Chews on the Raccoon , Dan Simmons Interview , All Hallows Talks With Dan Simmons , Dan Simmons: "New Frontiers" in the Cult of Violence , The Year of Dan Simmons , The Talebones Interview: Dan Simmons , Shut-Up Pink Boy , A Conversation with Dan Simmons , Dan Simmons: Born-Again Vacationist , A Conversation with Dan Simmons , Chewing the Raccoon , Dan Simmons: hangin' around the ruins . . . , Dan Simmons: February 23, 1997 , Dan Simmons: A Man for All Genres
- ISFDB Record Number: 170
- Biography: Bio:Dan Simmons
- Bibliographic Comments: Author:Dan Simmons
- Author Tags: space opera (8) , read by dgeiser13 (7) , read (6) , read horror (5) , nanotechnology (4) , locus award for best sf novel (4) , hugo award for best novel finalist (4) , bram stoker award for superior achievement in a novel finalist (4) , to read 1989 (3) , science fiction (3) , to read 1991 (2) , bsfa award for best novel finalist (2) , 2-award-winner (2) , to read 1992 (2) , to read 2002 (2) , cold (2) , posthuman (2) , to read 2003 (2) , honorable mention dozois years best (2) , best of year anthology (2) , horror (2) , to read 1996 (1) , to read 1997 (1) , to read 1985 (1) , world fantasy award for best novel winner (1) , mega-flora (1) , storytelling (1) , Hugo Award Winner (1) , dolphin (1) , hugo award for best novel winner (1) , AI (1) , to read 1994 (1) , to read 1990 (1) , 3-award-winner (1) , bsfa award for best novel winner (1) , nebula award for best novel finalist (1) , hugo and nebula award for best novel finalist (1) , Bram Stoker Award Winner (1) , bram stoker award for superior achievement in a novel winner (1) , British Fantasy Award for novel winner (1) , to read 1999 (1) , to read 2000 (1) , fantasy (1) , international horror guild award for best novel finalist (1) , to read 2001 (1) , near future (1) , aliens (1) , to read 2007 (1) , shirley jackson award for best novel finalist (1) , to read 2005 (1) , theatre (1) , short (1) , humanity enslaved (1) , to read 2009 (1) , to read 2010 (1) , dystopia (1) , to read 2011 (1)
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- Song of Kali (1985)
- Carrion Comfort (1989)
- Phases of Gravity (1989)
- Hyperion (1989)
- The Fall of Hyperion (1990)
- Summer of Night (1991)
- Children of the Night (1992)
- The Hollow Man (1992)
- Fires of Eden (1994)
- Endymion (1996)
- The Rise of Endymion (1997)
- A Winter Haunting (2002)
- Ilium (2003)
- Olympos (2005)
- The Terror (2007)
- Drood (2009)
- Black Hills (2010)
- Flashback (2011)
- Prayers to Broken Stones (1991)
- Lovedeath (1993)
- Worlds Enough and Time (2002)
-
Hyperion Cantos (1990) [O/1,2]
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: The Hyperion Omnibus (2004) [O]
- The Endymion Omnibus (2005) [O/3,4]
- Entropy's Bed at Midnight (1990)
- Banished Dreams (1990)
- Muse of Fire (2008)
- The Guiding Nose of Ulfänt Banderōz [forthcoming: Jun 30 2013]
- Going After the Rubber Chicken (1991)
- Summer Sketches (1992)
- Negative Spaces (1999)
- The Crook Factory (1999)
- Darwin's Blade (2000)
- Hardcase (2001)
- Hard Freeze (2002)
- Hard as Nails (2003)
- Cover: Carrion Comfort (1989)
- Cover: The Man of the Future (1990)
- Cover: Going After the Rubber Chicken (1991)
- Cover: Summer Sketches (1992)
- Carrion Comfort (1989) with Kathleen McNeil Sherman
- The Man of the Future (1990)
- The River Styx Runs Upstream (1982)
- Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams (1982)
-
Carrion Comfort (1983)
also appeared as:
- Magazine Appearances:
- Carrion Comfort (Part 1 of 2) (1983)
- Carrion Comfort (Part 2 of 2) (1983)
- Remembering Siri (1983)
- Vexed to Nightmare by a Rocking Cradle (1985)
- Presents of Mind (1986) with Edward Bryant and Connie Willis and Steve Rasnic Tem
- The Offering (1987)
-
E-Ticket to Namland (1987)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: E-Ticket to 'Namland (1987)
- Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds (1988)
- Iverson's Pits (1988)
- Metastasis (1988)
- Vanni Fucci Is Alive and Well and Living in Hell (1988)
- Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites (1989)
- The Death of the Centaur (1990)
- The Fall of Hyperion (excerpt) (1990)
- Dying is Easy, Comedy is Hard (1990) with Edward Bryant
- Entropy's Bed at Midnight (1990)
- Banished Dreams (1990)
- Prayers to Broken Stones (excerpt) (1991)
- The Counselor (1991)
- All Dracula's Children (1991)
- My Private Memoirs of the Hoffer Stigmata Pandemic (1991)
- This Year's Class Picture (1992)
- Elm Haven, IL (1992)
- One Small Step for Max (1992)
-
Death in Bangkok (1993)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Dying in Bangkok (1993)
- The Great Lover (1993)
- Sleeping with Teeth Women (1993)
- Flashback (1993)
- Dying in Bangkok (1993)
- My Copsa Micas (1994)
- Looking for Kelly Dahl (1995)
- Orphans of the Helix (1999)
- Madame Bovary, C'est Moi (2000)
- On K2 with Kanakaredes (2001)
- The Ninth of Av (2002)
- The End of Gravity (2002)
- Muse of Fire (2007)
- The Guiding Nose of Ulfänt Banderōz (2009)
- Endymion (Excerpt) (unknown)
- Forum: Dateline 1999 (1989) with Edward Bryant and Robin Cook and Joyce Thompson and Pat Cadigan and David Brin and Jack Williamson and Gregory Benford and Lewis Shiner and Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury
- Read This (The New York Review of Science Fiction, October 1989) (1989)
- Author's Afterword (Phases of Gravity) (1991)
- Childhood's End (1991)
- This Man Will Scare You... and He Should (1992)
- Foreword (Lovedeath) (1993)
- Notes: About the Real Poets (The Great Lover) (1993)
-
Introduction (Swamp Foetus) (1994)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Introduction (Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories) (1994)
- A Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics of Poppy: An Introduction (1994)
- Introduction to I Am Legend (1995)
- Letter (Locus #452) (1998)
- La mia carriera di scrittore (1999)
- Jack Vance: The Dragon Master (2000)
- Introduction to "The Ninth of Av" (2002)
- Introduction to "Orphans of the Helix" (2002)
- Introduction to "Looking for Kelly Dahl" (2002)
- Introduction to "The End of Gravity" (2002)
- Introduction to "On K2 with Kanakaredes" (2002)
- Introduction (Worlds Enough and Time) (2002)
- Introduction (Worlds Enough and Time) (2002)
- Tribute to Jacques Chambon (2003)
- Author's Note (Ilium) (2003)
- Afterword (The Guiding Nose of Ulfänt Banderōz) (2009)
- Grendel (1988) by John Gardner (1933-1982)