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Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died
- toomuchtodo 8mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Simmons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Simmons
- shaunxcode 8mo agoyou mean, author of Song of Kali.
- poisonarena 8mo agoI remember I was in a hotel in detroit years ago and read the whole book, in pdf form on my laptop, it was that fun!
- rwmj 8mo agoAlthough it's quite a flawed novel compared to brilliant space opera like Hyperion, I have a bit of a soft spot for Carrion Comfort. I think it'd make a great movie!
- boznz 8mo agoI would also rate this above hyperion, like hyperion book 1 it crossed into the horror genre quite well, the rest of the hyperion books were a little bit too preachy but a good series never the less. RIP Dan.
- perardi 8mo agoI have a real soft spot for Summer of Night. It obviously owes a lot to Stephen King’s IT. But it stands on its own merits…and I give it extra credit because it was set in my home town. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Night https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Night)
- nurbl 8mo agoCarrion Comfort was my introduction to Dan Simmons, I loved it. Not as good as some of his later stuff but it's really inventive, and never boring.
- throw0101a 8mo agoObituary: * https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/longmont-co/daniel-simmons-12758871 https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/longmont-co/danie...
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- Trasmatta 8mo agoI recommend everyone read Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion. The messages about AI and human stagnation are highly relevant to our current world.
- jabroni_salad 8mo agoSee you later, alligator...
- LaurensBER 8mo agoI'm sorry to read this, I was just thinking about rereading the entire saga the other day. His words and ideas will forever life in my mind.
- jnellis 8mo agoThe library wait list for Hyperion was months. I'm in the middle of Fall of Hyperion right now. Great writing.
- Freak_NL 8mo agoThe Hyperion Cantos is a masterpiece which every scifi fan ought to have read, but I would like to recommend a lesser known title of Simmons for readers who have read at least some works of Charles Dickens (self-explanatory) and Wilkie Collins (such as The Woman in White or The Moonstone). Simmons wrote Drood (2009), which takes these two classical authors and places them in a mystery novel. What struck me as particularly masterful is that Simmons managed to write his prose in such a way that as a reader you soon forget that this book was not written in the 1800s — his tone and style match that of Dickens and Collins so convincingly.
- matthewsinclair 8mo ago100%. One of the genuine great writers.
- layer8 8mo ago> The Hyperion Cantos is a masterpiece which every scifi fan ought to have read You have to have some affinity to religious/Christianity/church topics, otherwise it’s quite a turn-off.
- iamtheworstdev 8mo ago:shrug: I'm an Atheist, I loved the series.
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- mbeex 8mo agoAtheist here: Not true, there is much more in Hyperion (and even Endymion)
- layer8 8mo agoI’m not saying that you have to be religious. But if you find those topics and related symbolisms rather uninteresting in your sci-fi, then the books may not be for you.
- lordleft 8mo agoHyperion was a wonderful sci-novel. Thank you Dan, for your amazing writing; may you rest in peace.
- melecas 8mo agoThe TechnoCore using human minds as unwitting processing nodes — to solve a problem humans couldn't even be told about — reads differently every few years. 2026 is a particularly strange time to reread it.
- perardi 8mo agoAlso, that should have been the backstory of the Matrix, and not the whole “living power source” nonsense.
- ortusdux 8mo agoI'm convinced that the studio forced the change to 'human batteries' out of concern over a conflict with Hyperion.
- bee_rider 8mo agoProbably the idea is broad enough to get away with borrowing it or putting their own spin on the general idea (I mean, it is expected that stores will influence each other and ideas will spread). I’d rather guess that a studio executive thought the battery idea would be more understandable to people (if that is the case though, I think they were dramatically wrong, the computing idea makes much more sense and I think all of us in the audience would have been fine with it).
- Henchman21 8mo agoRemember that all critiques of Hollywood require you to think like you’ve just consumed a massive line of cocaine. Because that is how they think and live. So, empathy reduced to zero, all your ideas are great, everything else is dumb, etc. Making decisions under the influence of strong narcotics is a recipe for idiocy. Source: me, I had a huge cocaine problem and worked many years in the tech side of music and movies
- MikeTheGreat 8mo agoI saw a YouTube video where they said this was more-or-less the original backstory but then they changed it. I think it said that the People In Charge thought the 'living power source' would be easier for the audience to understand? I don't have the link handy, and don't trust everything I read on the Internet, etc, etc. But yeah - this makes so much more sense than breeding, raising, and feeding humans just to harvest their body heat.
- teeray 8mo agoEnjoyed the first Hyperion, but Fall of Hyperion was a bit of a slog for me. If Fall of Hyperion were compressed into the conclusion of Hyperion and other stories left as novellas (in the way James S.A. Corey has done), I think I would have enjoyed the story more.
- Trasmatta 8mo agoIn contrast, getting through Hyperion was hard for me (some of the character stories I LOVED and some felt like a slog), but I really loved Fall of Hyperion.
- globular-toast 8mo agoI did find the transition from Hyperion to Fall a little jarring. It has a completely different narrative structure for a start, but more importantly the scope goes from a single group of people doing a pilgrimage to a huge interstellar conspiracy. I think it works best if you read each book slightly separately rather than as one huge work.
- k__ 8mo agoYeah, Hyperion had an interesting structure, but the second book was quite basic compared to that. If The Fall of Hyperion were 1/3 of the length and part of the first book it would be perfect.
- DonHopkins 8mo agoI had a copy of Hyperion but didn't read it for years because the scary knife robot on the cover seemed intimidating. I finally read it, and all the sequels, and they were great books, and hell YEAH that was an intimidating knife robot! Sometimes you CAN tell a book by its cover.
- hinkley 8mo agoThe scary knife robot is way, way more intimidating in person.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 8mo agoI still remember the first time I met a scary knife robot. Working fast food night shift was crazy times.
- samus 8mo agoI find it awesome that the true nature and mission of the Shrike remains a secret.
- rurp 8mo agoI didn't know there was a type of bird called a shrike until long after I read Hyperion. The birds look and sound like cute little songbirds, kind of like a smaller mockingbird. But the way they hunt is hardcore. They capture small prey (lizards, grasshoppers, etc) and impale them on a spike from cactus or a broken branch. Then they return to eat them at their leisure. It's rare to see their caches but a few times I've been out hiking in the desert and seen the remains of a little critter on a cactus thorn.
- matthewsinclair 8mo agoVale Dan Simmons. You brought the world a _lot_ of joy.
- okasaki 8mo agoRIP. I really liked the Hyperion books and Ilium/Olympos. He seemed to become a bit of a chud after 9/11 but the books are still well worth reading.
- hinkley 8mo agoThings most people don’t know about Illinois is that while the Mason Dixon line officially goes around the bottom of the state, philosophically it cuts through the middle. Peoria is maybe thirty miles north of the rednecks. Add that he was a boomer and I was disappointed but not surprised when people started complaining about him.
- JackFr 8mo agoLoved Ilium, and Olympos a little less so. Inspired me to read the Iliad.
- AdmiralAsshat 8mo agoYeah, the Islamophobia in Ilium/Olympos made me really tempted to put the books down several times. It's such a strange about-face from when he wrote the character Kassad in the Hyperion Cantos. Like Frank Miller, it seems like 9/11 just broke him.
- poisonarena 8mo ago> He seemed to become a bit of a chud I will now read Ilium/Olympos
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- textm0de 8mo agoHere lies one whose name was writ in Eternity.
- Izikiel43 8mo agoI picked up Hyperion on a whim on Kindle because it was on sale for 2$. Amazing book, I bought and loved the other 3, I still hope they do a good miniseries with the books.
- pelagicAustral 8mo agoI sincerely hope they don't make any adaptation... after the slaughterhouse they've made with 3 Body Problem, Foundation, Altered Carbon, et al Not to mention all the damage done to other more traditional works of fiction.
- nilamo 8mo agoSometimes it's done right, like with The Expanse. Although the writers also wrote some of the episode scripts, so that probably helped...
- lotsoweiners 8mo agoTo each their own I guess. I never found the Expanse television series to be very good when compared to the books.
- wowtip 8mo agoHm altered carbon season 1 was pretty good? the books are still on my to read list.
- therealdrag0 8mo agoYou don’t have to watch them.
- wafflemaker 8mo agoYou can add the Wheel of Time to the list :((( But, the Expanse is not that bad really. Books were much more immersive with regards to the micro-G and low-G environments, but that is something almost impossible to film (at least until we learn how to control gravity).
- idontwantthis 8mo agoHyperion is the first sci-fi series I have ever described as beautiful. I just heard about and read all four in the past year.
- anp 8mo agoI read the Hyperion books during a particularly intense period of my life and found them quite powerful. I didn’t know anything about Simmons at the time, but I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that like Tolkein these stories started with an oral format for children.
- EvanAnderson 8mo agoMy "intense time of life" story re: Hyperion. I was finishing "The Rise of Endymion" and was stricken with a kidney stone. It was absolutely eerie, and has cemented my memory of that book in a strange way.
- arkaic 8mo agoOhhhh yeah, same exact deal with me. Read the series during a wild moment in my life decades ago. Still my favorite sci-fi series to date
- ctvo 8mo agoCarrion Comfort is still one of the most creepy horror books I've ever read and is seldom mentioned when we talk about Dan Simmons.
- howard941 8mo agoHyperion cries out for a good film adaptation.
- virgil_disgr4ce 8mo ago...does it though? I mean we don't have to argue about personal desires and opinions. But Hyperion simply doesn't seem adaptable. You would lose everything that makes it great.
- sandmn 8mo agoNot sure about a film, but maybe TV series? I thought Game of Thrones was not adaptable but then HBO did it.
- colkassad 8mo agoIt would make a perfect mini-series. Each episode or two could cover each pilgrim's story, with a finale two-parter to wrap up Fall of Hyperion. A lot from Fall could be trimmed down.
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- samus 8mo agoI rather hope it doesn't. It's not so much about action; it's subtle worldbuilding and a certain vibe that is easily distorted on screen. Also, it would destroy everybody's personal vision of the Shrike...
- zabzonk 8mo agoI liked all of the Hyperion/Shrike novels, except when Raul Endymion persistently refers to the heroine/love-interest as "my young friend", or similar phrasing - slightly creepy/boring. I didn't know that Summer of Night was a series - really liked the original book - will have to investigate. And, of course, I'm sad he's died.
- Aromasin 8mo agoWow. I picked up a copy of Hyperion this morning while taking a random stroll through town - something I rarely do during a work day anymore. I popped into a book shop on a complete whim, and picked it up as it had been on my list for a while. The coincidence feels deeply uncanny.
- Kaibeezy 8mo agoI started reading it for the first time this week. It’s just a statistical anomaly… but humans are wired to notice and feel coincidence; it connects us to space and time in a way that must have helped make religion more believable.
- bookofjoe 8mo ago"Coincidence is a glimpse of the scaffolding of reality." I read that many years ago, forgot the source.
- mwigdahl 8mo agoIt would be interesting if it were Dan Simmons…
- brownsound202 8mo agoHope you come back to this memory when they discuss the void that binds.
- occz 8mo agoAnd I just finished The Rise of Endymion a few days ago. Uncanny indeed.
- Loughla 8mo agoDo yourself a favor and get the audiobook after you read the physical book. It is, hands down, the best audiobook ever made. By far and away.
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- Sebguer 8mo agoThe type of person the concept 'death of the author' was invented for, because whoo were some of his other books ideological garbage.
- ChipopLeMoral 8mo agoHyperion Cantos might be my favorite sci-fi series ever. What a great writer.
- aerhardt 8mo agoI read Hyperion last year. It's an ode to the English letters and a phenomenal exercise in world-building. RIP.
- plasma_beam 8mo agoI see everyone talking about Hyperion, so I will play up The Terror as one of my favorites. The TV series did NOT do it justice.
- MonkeyIsNull 8mo agoYeah, I never got pulled into Hyperion but The Terror was.. something else. Just a masterpiece, and the TV series came nowhere near.
- virgil_disgr4ce 8mo agoTHANK YOU!!! The Terror—the book—absolutely blew me away. I still am in awe of that book. Just everything about it. And yeah the adaptation was so, so weak. But it faced the same problem many horror movies do, which is that if you're forced to show the Thing™ it loses all its power.
- nurbl 8mo agoWell there was no way the show would be quite as good as the book. But I was still pleasantly surprised, it was definitely better than the average TV adaptation. The actors were very good.
- 93benz 8mo agoCurrently finishing up The Terror. I've never read a horror story until I got this. There are times I struggle to put it down, incredible book. Simmons painted quite a colorful picture of what it's like to die from scurvy so now I bring an emergency orange wherever I go.
- lysace 8mo ago'Hyperion' is a brilliant name of a book in 1989.
- cess11 8mo agoIf one enjoys the Hyperion books, then it is highly likely one would also enjoy the Ilium books. It's nice that he ruminated on these old stories these books riff on without being smug about it. It's sad that he didn't manage to resist the fear based, fiercely reactionary politics of the last quarter of a century or so.
- hardlianotion 8mo agoRIP Dan
- Loughla 8mo agoFuck
- globular-toast 8mo agoA girl I was infatuated with told me to read Hyperion when I was in my early 20s. Never read a book to try to win someone's affections. It won't work, but what's worse is you won't even enjoy the book. I read a lot of SF and just last year I thought it was about time I gave it another go. I couldn't put it down. Almost couldn't believe what I was reading, it was so good. Continued to read the other three and it was just a good all the way through. Was quite sad when I finished and it was all over. It now has a permanent place in my library. I expect I'll enjoy it even more on my next reading. I can only dream of giving people as much joy as an author like Simmons.
- clarkmoody 8mo agoSimmons opened new frontiers of thought for me with his Hyperion Cantos. A house with each room on a different planet. A heartbreaking tale of a daughter aging in reverse. A romance playing out over space and time. A grand piano on the pop-out balcony of a starship. The cruciform parasite. The Shrike. Branches of humanity torn between decadent stagnation and radical evolution. The artificial intelligence civilization with its own agenda. The All Thing (Internet) as the third branch of government. So much good stuff, published in 1989 no less. Rest in Peace to a true legend.
- samus 8mo agoHe predicted social media as well. So many themes in this work only mentioned in passing, too many to develop in full...
- libraryofbabel 8mo agoOh, boy. The Shrike. That thing still haunts me in a way that no other monster or alien across all of Sci-fi or fantasy really does. It's something about the inscrutability of it, especially in the first novel (still my favorite) where its purpose and backstory haven't been revealed. Sure, it's scary, but I think the mystery of its motives - and its ability to unpredictably act apparently benevolently sometimes - is where the real terror lies.
- globular-toast 8mo ago> A house with each room on a different planet. My favourite part of that is the design of the house included a joke (I can't remember what the joke was, but that's not the point).
- clarkmoody 8mo agoThe bathroom was on a raft floating on the surface of an ocean planet.
- dtj1123 8mo agoI have to admit that I found the Hyperion Cantos to be a bit of a disappointment. There were some decent bits and pieces scattered throughout, but overall the story never seemed to resolve into something I could find engaging. Can someone who liked it share why?
- k__ 8mo agoPro: Interesting world building, Canterbury Tales in space, Huckleberry Finn in space, strong female characters. Con: Pro Judaism and Christianity (albeit with much criticism to both) and anti Islam, awkward sex scenes, awkward Lolita-esque vibes in the latter books.
- takko_the_boss 8mo agoRest In Peace Dan Simmons. R.I.P.
- brcmthrowaway 8mo agoDoes this book date well, or is it cheest/unreadable like Neuromancer?
- k__ 8mo agoThe first too books aged well.
- BigTTYGothGF 8mo agoI enjoyed the Hyperion books but this got him put on my "never read anything from ever again" list: https://web.archive.org/web/20060424105133/http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20060424105133/http://www.dansim...
- fatbird 8mo agoSame here. It's a fading memory, but the decade following 9/11 really did feature a lot of big brains turning THE COMING CALIPHATE into an existential threat to humanity. Which seems quaint, now.
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- ZpJuUuNaQ5 8mo ago>never read anything from ever again I think it's a poisonous and reductive mindset to have. You can separate art from the character of the artist. If you cared about everything everyone has ever said or done in various stages of their lives, you wouldn't have much left to enjoy or appreciate.
- isr 8mo agoHe's referring ... to his "art". Thats what the piece he linked to was a part of. Its not poisonous nor reductive to decide not to follow an "artist" because his "art" is repulsive.
- ZpJuUuNaQ5 8mo ago"I will never read anything by [AUTHOR] because some things [AUTHOR] wrote are now in my no no list." Sorry, that just doesn't make sense to me.
- weavejester 8mo agoWith the amount of fiction available to read, why give your money to authors who are bad people?
- ortusdux 8mo agoI wonder if the adaptation is still in the works? https://deadline.com/2021/11/bradley-cooper-set-hyperion-at-warner-bros-with-graham-king-1234865881/ https://deadline.com/2021/11/bradley-cooper-set-hyperion-at-...
- genjipress 8mo agoAs a general rule, if an announcement about a movie project is over a year old and nothing else has been mentioned since, you can safely assume it's no longer a thing.
- fr3772 8mo agoRead Hyperion some years ago. I was totally trhrilled to read it because of the good reviews... But I was very fast disappointed about the overwhelming focus on boring religion. The interessting stuff like TechnoCore was so sparse that I never came into a flow reading the book. After 2/3 I just wanted to finish it fast.
- gwern 8mo agoThat was probably a mistake. The religion is great (and I say that as a staunch materialist atheist) and _Fall of Hyperion_ had a lot more TechnoCore and filling out the background than _Hyperion_.
- saltysalt 8mo agoOh no! I just finished reading Hyperion this week and it has become one of my favorite books of all time. I will treasure my signed copy more so now, RIP.
- anvuong 8mo agoRIP Hyperion Cantos is the most influential scifi story I've ever read personally. The first book is a masterpiece, while the rest remains one of the greats. :(
- ChicagoDave 8mo agoHyperion was the first science fiction book that made me cry. I love all four books in the series. I never really engaged in any of his other writing. I have a signed copy of Ilium but never read it.
- skipkey 8mo agoBack in the 90s and the early aughts Simmons was on my “automatically buy everything he writes” list. But it seemed like he had stopped writing. But then I happened to browse Barnes and Noble beyond the SF&F and horror aisles and discovered he had been writing crime novels. And they were good. I think if he had ever decided to write romance novels I would have probably enjoyed those as well.
- mark_l_watson 8mo agoI enjoyed his sci-fi so much. Rest in peace brother.
- hyperion2010 8mo agoTo me, the Hyperion Cantos present a vision of the future that is incredibly hopeful. The path along the way may at times be bleak, and I find the handling of the TechnoCore to reveal echos of the great chain in a work that otherwise seems to totally reject it. Despite those and a few other shortcomings the Cantos are essential guides for charting our way toward a distant future that is filled with warmth, love, and compassion rather than the cold empty void of hate. To receive such a vision is a rare gift. Thank you Dan. Choose again.
- StillBored 8mo agoRIP, truly one of the greats. His early stuff contains some real masterworks. Hyperion is still to this day, going to show up at the top of my scifi recommended reading list, most of his horror novels were also great in their own ways. PS: I thought Fall of Hyperion should have been the end, it was just too final. There was plenty of space for some prequels but while the sequels contained some interesting ideas, they just never got to the level I felt justified reversing the finality of Fall. And Olympus/etc was pretty forgettable, but I don't regret the time I spent reading pretty much everything he wrote, sometimes more than once. So again, RIP.
- funemployed 8mo agoThe books were incredibly influential on me as a teenager, twenty years later on re-reading the cantos I found some of the specific language around intergenerational romance to be troubling and the focus on it to be a major distraction from the rest of the excellent story. Praying for his friends and family. RIP
- Agingcoder 8mo agoI read the book years ago so might have forgotten - what intergenerational romance ?
- stevenwoo 8mo agoImagine Lolita with a future seer twist. The adolescent girl knows she will be lovers with the adult male main character in a future time and teases him by bathing with him among other interactions while she is still an adolescent. It's teased at in the third book and fourth book until finally it's revealed to be a love story with a power ala The Stars My Destination.
- Gazoche 8mo agoI have never read an ending that was as sad, happy, clever and beautiful as the ending to Rise of Endymion. To this day it's one of the very few books that made me shed a tear. Now, over decade later, I am in the middle of re-reading every book in the Cantos series back to back (this time in their original language), and still loving them. Rest in peace Mr Simmons. You had the words of a poet and the mind of a dreamer.
- eatonphil 8mo agoI really liked Children of the Night.
- crorella 8mo agoI am sad to know about this, Dan Simmons had a mind blowing amount of imagination and the ability to turn that into interesting and imaginative books that expanded my imagination when I read them. I loved Hyperion cantos, Illium and then non sci-fi books like A Winter Haunting and Summer of night (which I read in the wrong order lol). I am also happy to read that he was a great person overall and a great teacher. May he rest in peace.
- elorm 8mo agoSimmons wrote one of my favourite short stories of all time Vanni Fucci is Alive and Well and living in Hell. While I'm definitely not willing to put myself through any of his books after 9/11, I haven't stopped recommending Vanni Fucci as an introduction to Dan Simmons. Rest in peace.
- loloquwowndueo 8mo agoIt’s all about the Hyperion Cantos which is fair but - the one Dan Simmons book we still talk about, years later, is his first novel: Song of Kali. Short and raw, one of the most horrifying books I’ve ever read.
- colkassad 8mo agoI've had this internet handle since the last century. Most people in here are talking about Hyperion but Simmons was a fantastic cross-genre author. My favorites were his historical fiction that contained a fantastical bent: Drood: Has Wilkie Collins as an unreliable narrator, depicting the last five or so years of Charles Dickens' life. Crook Factory: An FBI agent is sent to Cuba to keep an eye on Ernest Hemingway, hijinks ensue. The Fifth Heart: Henry James and Sherlock Holmes team up to solve a mystery. The Terror: Tells the story of what happened to the HMS Terror that attempted to make the northwest passage. The Arctic is a character in itself in this amazing story. I thought the TV mini-series was fine. Abominable and Black Hills: I haven't read these yet but look forward to doing so. Honestly, I think Dan Simmons is my favorite author. I know his politics became unpalatable but I could never find it in myself to care. My heart sank when I saw this post.
- eigencoder 8mo agoI've only read the first Hyperion novel, none of his other works. Thanks for recommending them!
- tetrisgm 8mo agoThank you for the wonderful stories. Hyperion was such a trip. It managed to move me, an aging hardcore sci-fi fan, with its silly, chaotic, poetic universe.
- FpUser 8mo agoRIP. Absolutely loved his writings
- Eric_WVGG 8mo agoI texted a RIP message to a friend-chat with the comment, "easily one of the top five space opera novels of all time" One of the friends asked Claude-AI "what are the top five space opera novels of all time," and it ranked Hyperion as #2, only behind Dune. I personally think LLM "knowledge" is… kind of stupid… but I have to admit it speaks to Simmons legacy that even the word swamp recognizes Hyperion as an all-time classic. (it ranked Stars Are Legion by K. Hurley as #5, which I unconditionally agree with, but am also kind of shocked, I've never heard of this book so much as referenced in any kind of article or conversation. But yeah, read it. Star Wars meets Alien — the Death Star is the alien)
- upsideDownBlue 8mo agoThe Hollow Man - a telepathic widower goes on the run. Story inspired by Dante's Inferno, I believe. The only book I've read in one sitting overnight. Prayers to Broken Stones - a book of short stories, contains the original novella of 'Carrion Comfort' (which works rather better, I believe, than the full novel), and some other classics, including Metastasis. A really interesting author; I'm glad he was writing.
- freetonik 8mo agoThe tale of the priest in Hyperion Cantos is the scariest thing I have ever read. Just this one story is a masterpiece. But the books contain dozens and dozens of stories, worlds, characters like that. The scope of the universe Simmons had built is immense. Truly a great writer. See you later, alligator…
- linksnapzz 8mo agoI read Hyperion in hs; and so much of what I read afterward (Chaucer, Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Keats, Eliot, Valéry) was influenced by Dan Simmons writing about it/quoting it. At this point, I doubt I could tell you where his influence on my taste & opinions on fiction begins or ends. Gone too soon.
- KingMob 8mo agoI loved the Hyperion books, but I moved on to other authors over time. Apparently, this is for the best, given what I've heard about his attitudes and his writing in his later decades.
- david_shi 8mo agoHyperion is a beautiful book, and prophetic in many ways. RIP to Dan Simmons.
- mstaoru 8mo agoEvery now and then I will google "books like Hyperion", read something, and conclude that it was nothing like Hyperion. Wonderful books, wonderful writer. A loss.
- davidswalkabout 8mo agoI'd enjoy an entire book series with Martin Silenus as the central character. He's hilarious. Any suggestions?
- tuzemec 8mo ago... and also "The Hollow Man". Loved that one too.