Dan Simmons
Author of Hyperion
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
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Series
Works by Dan Simmons
The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion / The Fall of Hyperion / Endymion / The Rise of Endymion (1990) 91 copies
Looking for Kelly Dahl {novella} 8 copies
[unidentified works] 8 copies
Metastasis 7 copies
Shave And A Haircut Two Bites 7 copies
Carrion Comfort [original novella] 6 copies
On K2 with Kanakaredes 5 copies
La mort du centaure 5 copies
Death in Bangkok 4 copies
Ilium and Olympos 3 copies
Remembering Siri {short story} 3 copies
Dying Is Easy Comedy is Hard — Author — 2 copies
The Vanishing 2 copies
The End of Gravity 1 copy
The Ninth of Av 1 copy
Ilium & Olympos, Part 3 of 7 1 copy
L'échiquier du mal 1 1 copy
All Dracula's Children 1 copy
Ilium & Olympos, Part 2 of 7 1 copy
Ilium & Olympos, Part 1 of 7 1 copy
The Offering {short story} 1 copy
The Offering [teleplay] 1 copy
Associated Works
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Contributor — 184 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 12 [December 1986] (1986) — Contributor — 13 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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Would you Drood with me? *Spoilers May Lurk Here* in The Green Dragon (August 2022)
Historical Horror Novels by Dan Simmons in Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night (April 2009)
science fiction book in Name that Book (December 2008)
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- Works
- 113
- Also by
- 46
- Members
- 61,026
- Popularity
- #236
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
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- Favorited
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