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{{Short description|American science fiction and horror writer ( | {{Short description|American science fiction and horror writer (1948–2026)}} | ||
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{{Infobox writer | {{Infobox writer | ||
| name = Dan Simmons | |||
| image = Dan Simmons 2002.jpg | |||
| caption = Simmons in 2002<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.locusmag.com/2002/Issue10/Simmons.html |title=Dan Simmons: A Man for All Genres |year=2002 |magazine=Locus |access-date=February 27, 2026 |archive-date=December 19, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241219001320/https://locusmag.com/2002/Issue10/Simmons.html |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1948|4|4}} | |||
| birth_place = [[Peoria, Illinois]], U.S. | |||
| death_date = {{nobr|{{death date and age|2026|2|21|1948|4|4}}}} | |||
| death_place = [[Longmont, Colorado]], U.S. | |||
| occupation = Novelist | |||
| education = [[Wabash College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Washington University in St. Louis|WashU]] ([[Master of Education|MEd]]) | |||
| period = 1983–2026 | |||
| genre = {{hlist | [[Science fiction]] | <br/>[[Horror fiction|horror]] | [[fantasy]]}} | |||
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| notableworks = {{ubl | ''[[Song of Kali]]'' (1985) | ''[[Hyperion (Simmons novel)|Hyperion]]'' (1989) | ''[[Carrion Comfort]]'' (1989) | ''[[The Terror (novel)|The Terror]]'' (2007)}} | |||
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| website = {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160213163643/http://www.dansimmons.com/ |date=February 13, 2016 |title=Official Web Site}} | |||
| spouse = Karen Simmons | |||
| children = 1 | |||
| birth_name = Daniel Joseph Simmons | |||
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''' | '''Daniel Joseph Simmons''' (April 4, 1948 – February 21, 2026) was an American [[science fiction]] and [[Horror fiction|horror]] writer. He was the author of the [[Hyperion Cantos]] and the [[Ilium/Olympos]] cycles, among other works that span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy [[genres]], sometimes within a single novel. Simmons's genre-intermingling'' [[Song of Kali]]'' (1985) won the [[World Fantasy Award]].<ref name="WWE-1986" /> He also wrote mysteries and [[thriller (genre)|thrillers]], some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz. | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Born in [[Peoria, Illinois]], Simmons started writing stories as a child with the goal of mesmerizing his audience with his story telling.<ref>{{Citation |[email protected] |title=BookBanter Episode 004 | Born in [[Peoria, Illinois]], on April 4, 1948,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Carlson |first=Michael |date=March 22, 2026 |title=Dan Simmons obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/22/dan-simmons-obituary |access-date=March 22, 2026 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> Simmons started writing stories as a child with the goal of mesmerizing his audience with his story telling.<ref>{{Citation |[email protected] |title=BookBanter Episode 004 – An Interview With Dan Simmons |url=http://archive.org/details/BookBanterEpisode004-AnInterviewWithDanSimmons |access-date=2024-04-24}}</ref> Simmons received a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in English from [[Wabash College]] in 1970 and, in 1971, a [[Masters in Education]] from [[Washington University in St. Louis]].<ref name="biog">{{cite web | url=http://dansimmons.com/about/bio.htm | title=About Dan: Biographic Sketch | website=dansimmons.com | access-date=14 June 2018 | archive-date=4 June 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180604180901/http://dansimmons.com/about/bio.htm | url-status=dead}}</ref> | ||
Simmons soon started writing short stories, although his career did not take off until 1982, when, through [[Harlan Ellison]]'s help, Simmons was invited to the Milford workshop, which Ellison considered to be "the best SF writing workshop in the world".<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title="Something Only Your Soul Knew" – Wabash Magazine |url=https://blog.wabash.edu/magazine/2020/01/09/something-only-your-soul-knew/ |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=blog.wabash.edu |archive-date=April 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240424230020/https://blog.wabash.edu/magazine/2020/01/09/something-only-your-soul-knew/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Simmons considered Ellison as a mentor, friend, and the reason he pursued writing full-time.<ref name=":1" /> Simmons' short story "[[Prayers to Broken Stones#"The River Styx Runs Upstream"|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's first novel, ''Song of Kali'', was released in 1985.<ref name="biog" /> | |||
He worked in elementary education until 1989.<ref name="biog" /> | He worked in elementary education until 1989.<ref name="biog" /> | ||
Simmons died from complications of a stroke in [[Longmont, Colorado]], on February 21, 2026, at the age of 77.<ref>{{cite web | |||
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}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/02/hyperion-author-dan-simmons-dies-from-stroke-at-77/ |title=One of the greatest modern science fiction authors, Dan Simmons, has died |access-date=February 27, 2026 |archive-date=February 27, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260227195138/https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/02/hyperion-author-dan-simmons-dies-from-stroke-at-77/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
==Horror fiction== | ==Horror fiction== | ||
''[[Summer of Night]]'' (1991) recounts the childhood of a group of pre-teens who band together in the 1960s, to defeat a centuries-old evil that terrorizes their hometown of Elm Haven, [[Illinois]]. The novel, which was praised by [[Stephen King]] in a cover blurb, is similar to King's ''[[It (novel)|It]]'' (1986) in its focus on small-town life, the corruption of innocence, the return of an ancient evil, and the responsibility for others that emerges with the transition from youth to adulthood. | ''[[Summer of Night]]'' (1991) recounts the childhood of a group of pre-teens who band together in the 1960s, to defeat a centuries-old evil that terrorizes their hometown of Elm Haven, [[Illinois]]. The novel, which was praised by [[Stephen King]] in a cover blurb, is similar to King's ''[[It (novel)|It]]'' (1986) in its focus on small-town life, the corruption of innocence, the return of an ancient evil, and the responsibility for others that emerges with the transition from youth to adulthood.{{cn|date=February 2026}} | ||
In the sequel to ''Summer of Night'', ''[[A Winter Haunting]]'' (2002), Dale Stewart (one of the first book's protagonists and now an adult), revisits his boyhood home to come to grips with mysteries that have disrupted his adult life. | In the sequel to ''Summer of Night'', ''[[A Winter Haunting]]'' (2002), Dale Stewart (one of the first book's protagonists and now an adult), revisits his boyhood home to come to grips with mysteries that have disrupted his adult life.{{cn|date=February 2026}} | ||
Between the publication of ''Summer of Night'' (1991) and ''A Winter Haunting'' (2002), several additional characters from ''Summer of Night'' appeared in: ''Children of the Night'' (1992), a loose sequel to ''Summer of Night'', which features Mike O'Rourke, now much older and a Roman Catholic priest, who is sent on a mission to investigate bizarre events in a European city; ''[[Fires of Eden (novel)|Fires of Eden]]'' (1994), in which the adult Cordie Cooke appears; and ''Darwin's Blade'' (2000), a thriller in which Dale's younger brother, Lawrence Stewart, appears as a minor character.<ref>{{cite news|work=Publishers Weekly|title=Review: ''Darwin's Blade''|date=October 30, 2000 |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-380-97369-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Simmons, Dan|title=Darwin's Blade|publisher=William Morrow|date=2000|isbn=978-0-380-97369-9|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/darwinsblade00simm}}</ref> | Between the publication of ''Summer of Night'' (1991) and ''A Winter Haunting'' (2002), several additional characters from ''Summer of Night'' appeared in: ''Children of the Night'' (1992), a loose sequel to ''Summer of Night'', which features Mike O'Rourke, now much older and a Roman Catholic priest, who is sent on a mission to investigate bizarre events in a European city; ''[[Fires of Eden (novel)|Fires of Eden]]'' (1994), in which the adult Cordie Cooke appears; and ''Darwin's Blade'' (2000), a thriller in which Dale's younger brother, Lawrence Stewart, appears as a minor character.<ref>{{cite news|work=Publishers Weekly|title=Review: ''Darwin's Blade''|date=October 30, 2000|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-380-97369-9|archive-date=August 13, 2018|access-date=August 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813175024/https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-380-97369-9|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Simmons, Dan|title=Darwin's Blade|publisher=William Morrow|date=2000|isbn=978-0-380-97369-9|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/darwinsblade00simm}}</ref> | ||
After ''[[Summer of Night]]'', Simmons focused on writing science fiction until the 2007 work of [[historical fiction]] and horror, ''[[The Terror (novel)|The Terror]]''. His 2009 book ''[[Drood (novel)|Drood]]'' is based on the last years of [[Charles Dickens]]' life leading up to the writing of ''[[The Mystery of Edwin Drood]]'', which Dickens had partially completed at the time of his death.<ref name="st090215" /> | After ''[[Summer of Night]]'', Simmons focused on writing science fiction until the 2007 work of [[historical fiction]] and horror, ''[[The Terror (novel)|The Terror]]''. His 2009 book ''[[Drood (novel)|Drood]]'' is based on the last years of [[Charles Dickens]]'s life leading up to the writing of ''[[The Mystery of Edwin Drood]]'', which Dickens had partially completed at the time of his death.<ref name="st090215" /> | ||
==Historical fiction== | ==Historical fiction== | ||
''[[The Terror (novel)|The Terror]]'' (2007) crosses the bridge between horror and historical fiction. It is a fictionalized account of Sir [[John Franklin]] and [[Franklin's lost expedition|his expedition]] to find the [[Northwest Passage]]. The two ships, {{HMS|Erebus|1826|6}} and {{HMS|Terror|1813|6}}, become icebound the first winter, and the captains and crew struggle to survive while being stalked across an Arctic landscape by a monster. The novel was adapted into a [[The Terror (TV series)|ten-part television series]]. | [[File:Dan Simmons.jpg|thumb|216px|Simmons signing an autograph (1992)]] | ||
''[[The Terror (novel)|The Terror]]'' (2007) crosses the bridge between horror and historical fiction. It is a fictionalized account of Sir [[John Franklin]] and [[Franklin's lost expedition|his expedition]] to find the [[Northwest Passage]]. The two ships, {{HMS|Erebus|1826|6}} and {{HMS|Terror|1813|6}}, become icebound the first winter, and the captains and crew struggle to survive while being stalked across an Arctic landscape by a monster. The novel was adapted into a [[The Terror (TV series)|ten-part television series]].{{cn|date=February 2026}} | |||
''The Abominable'' (2013) recounts a mid-1920s attempt on [[Mount Everest]] by five climbers—two British, one French, one Sherpa, and one American (the narrator)—to recover the body of a cousin of one the British characters.<ref>{{cite news|title=Review: 'The Abominable' by Dan Simmons|date=October 20, 2013|work=Chicago Tribune|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-1020-abominable-dan-simmons-20131020-story.html|author=Robbins, Michael}}</ref> | ''The Abominable'' (2013) recounts a mid-1920s attempt on [[Mount Everest]] by five climbers—two British, one French, one [[Sherpa people|Sherpa]], and one American (the narrator)—to recover the body of a cousin of one of the British characters.<ref>{{cite news|title=Review: 'The Abominable' by Dan Simmons|date=October 20, 2013|work=Chicago Tribune|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-1020-abominable-dan-simmons-20131020-story.html|author=Robbins, Michael|archive-date=August 13, 2018|access-date=April 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813175139/http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-1020-abominable-dan-simmons-20131020-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> | ||
==Literary references== | ==Literary references== | ||
Many of Simmons's works have strong ties with classic literature. For example: | Many of Simmons's works have strong ties with classic literature.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SFE: Simmons, Dan |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/simmons_dan |access-date=2026-02-27 |website=sf-encyclopedia.com}}</ref> For example: | ||
* His 1989 novel ''Hyperion'', winner of Hugo and [[Locus Award]]s for the best science fiction novel,<ref name="WWE-1990" /> deals with a space war and is inspired in its structure by [[Giovanni Boccaccio|Boccaccio's]] ''[[Decameron]]'' and [[Chaucer]]'s ''[[Canterbury Tales]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Miller |first1=T. S. |title=Flying Chaucers, Insectile Ecclesiasts, and Pilgrims Through Space and Time: The Science Fiction Chaucer |journal=The Chaucer Review |date=2013 |volume=48 |issue=2 |doi=10.5325/chaucerrev.48.2.0129 |s2cid=161558250 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/522478 |access-date=26 May 2020|url-access=subscription }}</ref> | * His 1989 novel ''Hyperion'', winner of Hugo and [[Locus Award]]s for the best science fiction novel,<ref name="WWE-1990" /> deals with a space war and is inspired in its structure by [[Giovanni Boccaccio|Boccaccio's]] ''[[Decameron]]'' and [[Chaucer]]'s ''[[Canterbury Tales]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Miller |first1=T. S. |title=Flying Chaucers, Insectile Ecclesiasts, and Pilgrims Through Space and Time: The Science Fiction Chaucer |journal=The Chaucer Review |date=2013 |volume=48 |issue=2 |doi=10.5325/chaucerrev.48.2.0129 |s2cid=161558250 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/522478 |access-date=26 May 2020 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=July 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170726125432/http://muse.jhu.edu/article/522478 |url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
* The ''[[Hyperion Cantos]]'' take their titles from poems by the British Romantic [[John Keats]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-keats|title=John Keats|date=2018-09-06|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en-us | * The ''[[Hyperion Cantos]]'' take their titles from poems by the British Romantic [[John Keats]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-keats|title=John Keats|date=2018-09-06|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en-us|access-date=2018-09-07|archive-date=September 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905021859/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-keats|url-status=live}}</ref> | ||
* The title of ''[[Carrion Comfort]]'', as well as many of its themes, derives from the poem "Carrion Comfort" by [[Gerard Manley Hopkins]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Willems |first=Brian |date=2009 |title=Hopkins and Heidegger |location=London |publisher=Continuum |isbn=9781441169563}}</ref> | * The title of ''[[Carrion Comfort]]'', as well as many of its themes, derives from the poem "Carrion Comfort" by [[Gerard Manley Hopkins]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Willems |first=Brian |date=2009 |title=Hopkins and Heidegger |location=London |publisher=Continuum |isbn=9781441169563}}</ref> | ||
* [[The Hollow Man (1992 novel)|''The Hollow Man'']] (1992) is a novel influenced by Dante's ''Inferno'' and [[T. S. Eliot]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1992/09/27/science-fiction-and-fantasy/aaff7d02-0c27-41b9-b659-9d7423de442f/?noredirect=on|title=The Hollow Man|last=Feeley|first=Gregory|date=27 September 1992|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> | * [[The Hollow Man (1992 novel)|''The Hollow Man'']] (1992) is a novel influenced by Dante's ''Inferno'' and [[T. S. Eliot]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1992/09/27/science-fiction-and-fantasy/aaff7d02-0c27-41b9-b659-9d7423de442f/?noredirect=on|title=The Hollow Man|last=Feeley|first=Gregory|date=27 September 1992|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> | ||
* "The Great Lover" (1993) is a short story inspired by the [[World War I]] [[War Poets]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1YAQCZ5NyjUC&q=%22The+Great+Lover%22+by+%22Dan+Simmons%22+inspired+by+the+World+War+I+War+Poets&pg=PA73|title=News of the Black Feast and Other Random Reviews|last=Stableford|first=Brian|date=2009-03-01|publisher=Wildside Press LLC|isbn=9781434403360|pages=73{{en dash}}74|language=en}}</ref> | * "The Great Lover" (1993) is a short story inspired by the [[World War I]] [[War Poets]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1YAQCZ5NyjUC&q=%22The+Great+Lover%22+by+%22Dan+Simmons%22+inspired+by+the+World+War+I+War+Poets&pg=PA73|title=News of the Black Feast and Other Random Reviews|last=Stableford|first=Brian|date=2009-03-01|publisher=Wildside Press LLC|isbn=9781434403360|pages=73{{en dash}}74|language=en}}</ref> | ||
* Simmons's collection of short stories, ''Worlds Enough & Time'', takes its name from the first line of the poem "[[His Coy Mistress|To His Coy Mistress]]" by English poet [[Andrew Marvell]]: "Had we but world enough, and time"<ref>Marvell, A. (1981). "To his coy mistress." The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved on 17 October 2018 from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44688/to-his-coy-mistress</ref> | * Simmons's collection of short stories, ''Worlds Enough & Time'', takes its name from the first line of the poem "[[His Coy Mistress|To His Coy Mistress]]" by English poet [[Andrew Marvell]]: "Had we but world enough, and time"<ref>Marvell, A. (1981). "To his coy mistress." The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved on 17 October 2018 from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44688/to-his-coy-mistress {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015064525/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44688/to-his-coy-mistress |date=October 15, 2018 }}</ref> | ||
* The detective in ''Flashback'' is named [[Nick Bottom]] after a character in Shakespeare's ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-dan-simmons-20110807-story.html|title=Book review: 'Flashback' by Dan Simmons|last=Owchar|first=Nick|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=7 August 2011|access-date=2018-12-11}}</ref> | * The detective in ''Flashback'' is named [[Nick Bottom]] after a character in Shakespeare's ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-dan-simmons-20110807-story.html|title=Book review: 'Flashback' by Dan Simmons|last=Owchar|first=Nick|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=7 August 2011|access-date=2018-12-11|archive-date=December 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214070155/https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-dan-simmons-20110807-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> | ||
==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||
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=====Related short fiction===== | =====Related short fiction===== | ||
* "[[Prayers to Broken Stones#"Remembering Siri"|Remembering Siri]]" (1983) | * "[[Prayers to Broken Stones#"Remembering Siri"|Remembering Siri]]" (1983) – '''(Novelette)''', prequel to ''Hyperion''{{cn|date=February 2026}} | ||
* "[[Prayers to Broken Stones#"The Death of the Centaur"|The Death of the Centaur]]" (1990) | * "[[Prayers to Broken Stones#"The Death of the Centaur"|The Death of the Centaur]]" (1990) – '''(Novelette)'''{{cn|date=February 2026}} | ||
* "[[Orphans of the Helix]]" (1999) | * "[[Orphans of the Helix]]" (1999) – '''(Novelette)''', sequel to ''The Rise of Endymion''{{cn|date=February 2026}} | ||
=====Seasons of Horror===== | =====Seasons of Horror===== | ||
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# ''Children of the Night'' (1992) – {{ISBN|978-1250009852}} | # ''Children of the Night'' (1992) – {{ISBN|978-1250009852}} | ||
# ''[[Fires of Eden (novel)|Fires of Eden]]'' (1994) – {{ISBN|978-0061056147}} | # ''[[Fires of Eden (novel)|Fires of Eden]]'' (1994) – {{ISBN|978-0061056147}} | ||
# ''Darwin's Blade'' | # ''Darwin's Blade'' (2000) – {{ISBN|978-0380973699}} | ||
# ''[[A Winter Haunting]]'' (2002) – {{ISBN|978-0380817160}} | # ''[[A Winter Haunting]]'' (2002) – {{ISBN|978-0380817160}} | ||
=====Related===== | =====Related===== | ||
* ''Banished Dreams'' (1990), collects three prophetic dream sequences that were expurgated from the published edition of ''Summer of Night'', entitled "Dale's Dream", "Kevin's Dream" and "Mike's Dream" | * ''Banished Dreams'' (1990), collects three prophetic dream sequences that were expurgated from the published edition of ''Summer of Night'', entitled "Dale's Dream", "Kevin's Dream" and "Mike's Dream"{{cn|date=February 2026}} | ||
=====Joe Kurtz===== | =====Joe Kurtz===== | ||
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* ''[[Drood (novel)|Drood]]'' (2009) – {{ISBN|978-0316007023}} | * ''[[Drood (novel)|Drood]]'' (2009) – {{ISBN|978-0316007023}} | ||
* ''Black Hills'' (2010) – {{ISBN|978-1849160902}} | * ''Black Hills'' (2010) – {{ISBN|978-1849160902}} | ||
* ''Flashback'' (2011) – {{ISBN|978-0316006965}} | * ''[[Flashback_(novel)|Flashback]]'' (2011) – {{ISBN|978-0316006965}} | ||
* ''The Abominable'' (2013)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/dan-simmons-the-abominable-cover-art-reveal |title=Dan Simmons The Abominable cover art reveal! |work=Upcoming4.me |date=14 March 2013 |access-date=14 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130319034502/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/dan-simmons-the-abominable-cover-art-reveal |archive-date=March 19, 2013 |df=mdy}}</ref> – {{ISBN|978-0751550283}} | * ''[[The Abominable (novel)|The Abominable]]'' (2013)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/dan-simmons-the-abominable-cover-art-reveal |title=Dan Simmons The Abominable cover art reveal! |work=Upcoming4.me |date=14 March 2013 |access-date=14 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130319034502/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/dan-simmons-the-abominable-cover-art-reveal |archive-date=March 19, 2013 |df=mdy}}</ref> – {{ISBN|978-0751550283}} | ||
* ''The Fifth Heart'' (2015)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kernelscorner.com/2014/03/dans-simmons-to-release-fifth-heart-his.html |title=Dan Simmons To Release 'The Fifth Heart', His Next Book After 'The Abominable' |work=Kernel's Corner |date=10 March 2014 |access-date=6 April 2014}}</ref> – {{ISBN|978-0316198820}} | * ''The Fifth Heart'' (2015)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kernelscorner.com/2014/03/dans-simmons-to-release-fifth-heart-his.html |title=Dan Simmons To Release 'The Fifth Heart', His Next Book After 'The Abominable' |work=Kernel's Corner |date=10 March 2014 |access-date=6 April 2014}}</ref> – {{ISBN|978-0316198820}} | ||
* ''Omega Canyon'' (2025)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dan-simmons/omega-canyon/9780316198912/|title=Omega Canyon | | * ''Omega Canyon''{{efn|''Omega Canyon'' is listed as available on several booksellers websites; however as of February 2026 the book is still unable to be purchased, with no information as to when the book will be available.}} (unpublished, original publication date 2025)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Simmons |first1=Dan |url=https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dan-simmons/omega-canyon/9780316198912/ |title=Omega Canyon |via=Hachette Book Group |date=14 March 2025 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |isbn=978-0-316-19891-2 |access-date=14 March 2025 |archive-date=January 21, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250121034442/https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dan-simmons/omega-canyon/9780316198912/ |url-status=live }}</ref> – {{ISBN|978-0316198912}} | ||
=== Short stories === | === Short stories === | ||
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====Collections==== | ====Collections==== | ||
* ''[[Prayers to Broken Stones]]'' (1990), six short stories and seven novellas/novelettes: | * ''[[Prayers to Broken Stones]]'' (1990), six short stories and seven novellas/novelettes: | ||
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====Uncollected short fiction==== | ====Uncollected short fiction==== | ||
* "Presents of Mind" (1986, with [[Edward Bryant]], [[Steve Rasnic Tem]] and [[Connie Willis]]) | * "Presents of Mind" (1986, with [[Edward Bryant]], [[Steve Rasnic Tem]] and [[Connie Willis]]) | ||
* "Dying Is Easy, Comedy Is Hard" (1990, with [[Edward Bryant]]) | * "Dying Is Easy, Comedy Is Hard" (1990, with [[Edward Bryant]]) – '''(Novelette)''' | ||
* "The Counselor" (1991) | * "The Counselor" (1991) – '''(Novelette)''' | ||
* "All Dracula's Children" (1991) | * "All Dracula's Children" (1991) – '''(Novelette)''' | ||
* "My Private Memoirs of the Hoffer Stigmata Pandemic" (1991) | * "My Private Memoirs of the Hoffer Stigmata Pandemic" (1991) | ||
* "This Year's Class Picture" (1992) (Appeared in ''The Living Dead'', an anthology edited by [[John Joseph Adams]]) | * "This Year's Class Picture" (1992) (Appeared in ''The Living Dead'', an anthology edited by [[John Joseph Adams]]) | ||
* "Elm Haven, IL" (1992) | * "Elm Haven, IL" (1992) – '''(Novelette)''', from ''Freak Show'' series | ||
* "One Small Step for Max" (1992) | * "One Small Step for Max" (1992) | ||
* "My Copsa Micas" (1994) | * "My Copsa Micas" (1994) – '''(Novelette)''' | ||
* ''Madame Bovary, C'est Moi'' (2000) | * ''Madame Bovary, C'est Moi'' (2000) | ||
* ''[[Muse of Fire]]'' (2007) | * ''[[Muse of Fire]]'' (2007) – '''(Novella)''' | ||
* ''The Guiding Nose of Ulfänt Banderōz'' (2009) | * ''The Guiding Nose of Ulfänt Banderōz'' (2009) – '''(Novella)''' published as a [[chapbook]] and set in [[Jack Vance]]'s [[Dying Earth]] setting | ||
* ''The Final Pogrom'' (2024) | * ''The Final Pogrom'' (2024) | ||
=== Non-fiction === | === Non-fiction === | ||
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==Adaptations== | ==Adaptations== | ||
In January 2004, it was announced that the screenplay he wrote for his novels ''Ilium'' and ''Olympos'' would be made into a film by [[Digital Domain]] and Barnet Bain Films, with Simmons acting as executive producer. ''Ilium'' is described as an "epic tale that spans 5,000 years and sweeps across the entire solar system, including themes and characters from [[Homer]]'s [[The Iliad|''Iliad'']] and [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s [[The Tempest (play)|''The Tempest'']]."<ref>{{cite web|author1=Marc Graser|author2=Jonathan Bing|title='Ilium,' 'Olympos' optioned for pic|url=https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/ilium-olympos-optioned-for-pic-1117898065/|date=8 January 2004|website=Variety|access-date=29 April 2019}}</ref> | In January 2004, it was announced that the screenplay he wrote for his novels ''Ilium'' and ''Olympos'' would be made into a film by [[Digital Domain]] and Barnet Bain Films, with Simmons acting as executive producer. ''Ilium'' is described as an "epic tale that spans 5,000 years and sweeps across the entire solar system, including themes and characters from [[Homer]]'s [[The Iliad|''Iliad'']] and [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s [[The Tempest (play)|''The Tempest'']]."<ref>{{cite web|author1=Marc Graser|author2=Jonathan Bing|title='Ilium,' 'Olympos' optioned for pic|url=https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/ilium-olympos-optioned-for-pic-1117898065/|date=8 January 2004|website=Variety|access-date=29 April 2019|archive-date=May 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180508213057/http://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/ilium-olympos-optioned-for-pic-1117898065/|url-status=live}}</ref> | ||
In 2008, [[Guillermo del Toro]] was scheduled to direct a film adaptation of ''Drood'' for [[Universal Pictures]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Fleming|first=Michael Jr.|url=https://variety.com/2008/film/features/guillermo-del-toro-booked-thru-2017-1117991560/|title=Guillermo Del Toro booked thru 2017|date=3 September 2008|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|access-date=25 December 2017}}</ref> As of December 2017, the project is still listed as "in development".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1290396/|title=Drood|website=IMDB.com|publisher=Internet Movie Database|access-date=25 December 2017}}</ref> | In 2008, [[Guillermo del Toro]] was scheduled to direct a film adaptation of ''Drood'' for [[Universal Pictures]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Fleming|first=Michael Jr.|url=https://variety.com/2008/film/features/guillermo-del-toro-booked-thru-2017-1117991560/|title=Guillermo Del Toro booked thru 2017|date=3 September 2008|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|access-date=25 December 2017|archive-date=October 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231010192421/https://variety.com/2008/film/features/guillermo-del-toro-booked-thru-2017-1117991560/|url-status=live}}</ref> As of December 2017, the project is still listed as "in development".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1290396/|title=Drood|website=IMDB.com|publisher=Internet Movie Database|access-date=25 December 2017|archive-date=September 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903051324/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1290396/|url-status=live}}</ref> | ||
In 2009, [[Scott Derrickson]] was set to direct ''Hyperion Cantos'' for [[Warner Bros.]] and Graham King, with Trevor Sands penning a script adapting ''[[Hyperion (Simmons novel)|Hyperion]]'' and ''[[The Fall of Hyperion (novel)|The Fall of Hyperion]]'' into one film.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fleming|first=Michael|title=Scott Derrickson to direct 'Hyperion'|url=https://variety.com/2009/film/markets-festivals/scott-derrickson-to-direct-hyperion-1117999283/|website=[[Variety.com|Variety]]|access-date=2012-12-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722053326/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117999283?refCatId=13|archive-date=July 22, 2015|date=Jan 29, 2009|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In 2011, actor [[Bradley Cooper]] expressed interest in taking over the adaptation.<ref>{{cite web|last=Falconer|first=Robert|title=Bradley Cooper Anxious to Adapt Dan Simmons's Hyperion for the Screen|website=Cinemaspy.|url=http://www.cinemaspy.com/movie-news/bradley-cooper-anxious-to-adapt-dan-simmonss-hyperion-for-the-screen-7564|access-date=2012-12-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120703144151/http://www.cinemaspy.com/movie-news/bradley-cooper-anxious-to-adapt-dan-simmonss-hyperion-for-the-screen-7564/|archive-date=July 3, 2012|date=May 27, 2011|url-status=dead|df=mdy}}</ref> In 2015, it was announced that TV channel [[Syfy]] would produce a miniseries based on the Hyperion Cantos with the involvement of Cooper and King.<ref>{{cite web|last=Goldberg|first=Lesley |title=Bradley Cooper, Graham King, Todd Phillips Adapting Dan Simmons' 'Hyperion' for Syfy|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/bradley-cooper-graham-king-todd-801537|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|access-date=2015-08-05|date=June 10, 2015}}</ref> As of May 2017, the project was still "in development" at Syfy.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fowler|first=Matt|title=Syfy Reboot Includes Greenlit Krypton Series, George R.R. Martin's Nightflyers and More|url=http://in.ign.com/tv/108057/news/syfy-reboot-includes-greenlit-krypton-series-george-rr-marti|access-date=28 May 2017|publisher=IGN News|date=12 May 2017}}</ref> On November 1, 2021, Cooper and King restarted the feature film adaptation at Warner Bros., with [[Tom Spezialy]] set to write the script.<ref>{{cite web|last=D'Alessandro|first=Anthony|title=Bradley Cooper Launches Production Label; Sets 'Hyperion' At Warner Bros With Graham King|url=https://deadline.com/2021/11/bradley-cooper-set-hyperion-at-warner-bros-with-graham-king-1234865881/|date=November 1, 2021|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|access-date=January 5, 2022}}</ref> | In 2009, [[Scott Derrickson]] was set to direct ''Hyperion Cantos'' for [[Warner Bros. Pictures|Warner Bros.]] and Graham King, with Trevor Sands penning a script adapting ''[[Hyperion (Simmons novel)|Hyperion]]'' and ''[[The Fall of Hyperion (novel)|The Fall of Hyperion]]'' into one film.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fleming|first=Michael|title=Scott Derrickson to direct 'Hyperion'|url=https://variety.com/2009/film/markets-festivals/scott-derrickson-to-direct-hyperion-1117999283/|website=[[Variety.com|Variety]]|access-date=2012-12-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722053326/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117999283?refCatId=13|archive-date=July 22, 2015|date=Jan 29, 2009|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In 2011, actor [[Bradley Cooper]] expressed interest in taking over the adaptation.<ref>{{cite web|last=Falconer|first=Robert|title=Bradley Cooper Anxious to Adapt Dan Simmons's Hyperion for the Screen|website=Cinemaspy.|url=http://www.cinemaspy.com/movie-news/bradley-cooper-anxious-to-adapt-dan-simmonss-hyperion-for-the-screen-7564|access-date=2012-12-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120703144151/http://www.cinemaspy.com/movie-news/bradley-cooper-anxious-to-adapt-dan-simmonss-hyperion-for-the-screen-7564/|archive-date=July 3, 2012|date=May 27, 2011|url-status=dead|df=mdy}}</ref> In 2015, it was announced that TV channel [[Syfy]] would produce a miniseries based on the Hyperion Cantos with the involvement of Cooper and King.<ref>{{cite web|last=Goldberg|first=Lesley|title=Bradley Cooper, Graham King, Todd Phillips Adapting Dan Simmons' 'Hyperion' for Syfy|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/bradley-cooper-graham-king-todd-801537|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|access-date=2015-08-05|date=June 10, 2015|archive-date=December 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215003953/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/bradley-cooper-graham-king-todd-801537|url-status=live}}</ref> As of May 2017, the project was still "in development" at Syfy.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fowler|first=Matt|title=Syfy Reboot Includes Greenlit Krypton Series, George R.R. Martin's Nightflyers and More|url=http://in.ign.com/tv/108057/news/syfy-reboot-includes-greenlit-krypton-series-george-rr-marti|access-date=28 May 2017|publisher=IGN News|date=12 May 2017|archive-date=June 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616030742/http://in.ign.com/tv/108057/news/syfy-reboot-includes-greenlit-krypton-series-george-rr-marti|url-status=live}}</ref> On November 1, 2021, Cooper and King restarted the feature film adaptation at Warner Bros., with [[Tom Spezialy]] set to write the script.<ref>{{cite web|last=D'Alessandro|first=Anthony|title=Bradley Cooper Launches Production Label; Sets 'Hyperion' At Warner Bros With Graham King|url=https://deadline.com/2021/11/bradley-cooper-set-hyperion-at-warner-bros-with-graham-king-1234865881/|date=November 1, 2021|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|access-date=January 5, 2022}}</ref> | ||
''[[The Terror (novel)|The Terror]]'' (2007) was adapted in 2018 as an [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]] [[The Terror (TV series)|10-episode miniseries]] and received generally positive reviews upon release.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_terror/s01/|title=''The Terror'': Season 1 (2018)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-terror|title=''The Terror'' Reviews|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref> | ''[[The Terror (novel)|The Terror]]'' (2007) was adapted in 2018 as an [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]] [[The Terror (TV series)|10-episode miniseries]] and received generally positive reviews upon release.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_terror/s01/|title=''The Terror'': Season 1 (2018)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=April 10, 2018|archive-date=April 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180419004942/https://rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_terror/s01|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-terror|title=''The Terror'' Reviews|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=April 10, 2018|archive-date=April 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180406231344/http://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-terror|url-status=live}}</ref> | ||
==Awards== | ==Awards== | ||
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===Wins=== | ===Wins=== | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
! Work !! Year & Award!! Category!! Ref. | ! Work !! Year & Award!! Category!! Ref. | ||
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|1990 [[Locus Award]] | |1990 [[Locus Award]] | ||
|SF Novel | |SF Novel | ||
|<ref name="eja4J">{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Dan_Simmons | title=Sfadb : Dan Simmons Awards }}</ref> | |<ref name="eja4J">{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Dan_Simmons | title=Sfadb : Dan Simmons Awards | access-date=June 24, 2022 | archive-date=October 8, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008045126/http://www.sfadb.com/Dan_Simmons | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
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|1990 [[Hugo Award]] | |1990 [[Hugo Award]] | ||
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|1991 SF Chronicle Award | |1991 SF Chronicle Award | ||
|Novel | |Novel | ||
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Science_Fiction_Chronicle_Readers_Poll_1991 | title=Sfadb: Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll 1991 }}</ref> | |<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Science_Fiction_Chronicle_Readers_Poll_1991 | title=Sfadb: Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll 1991 | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=October 10, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241010075544/https://www.sfadb.com/Science_Fiction_Chronicle_Readers_Poll_1991 | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
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|1991 [[BSFA Award]] | |1991 [[BSFA Award]] | ||
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|1991 Readercon Awards | |1991 Readercon Awards | ||
|Short Work | |Short Work | ||
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Readercon_Awards_1991 | title=Sfadb: Readercon Awards 1991 }}</ref> | |<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Readercon_Awards_1991 | title=Sfadb: Readercon Awards 1991 | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=August 7, 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250807000320/https://sfadb.com/Readercon_Awards_1991 | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
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| rowspan="1" |''[[Prayers to Broken Stones]]'' | | rowspan="1" |''[[Prayers to Broken Stones]]'' | ||
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|1993 Locus Award | |1993 Locus Award | ||
|Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel | |Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel | ||
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1993 | title=Sfadb: Locus Awards 1993 }}</ref> | |<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1993 | title=Sfadb: Locus Awards 1993 | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=March 12, 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250312085406/https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1993 | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
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| rowspan="2" |''Dying in Bangkok'' | | rowspan="2" |''Dying in Bangkok'' | ||
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|1999 Prix Zone | |1999 Prix Zone | ||
|Foreign SF Novel | |Foreign SF Novel | ||
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bdfi.net/prix/prix.php?id=ozone | title=Pages prix }}</ref> | |<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bdfi.net/prix/prix.php?id=ozone | title=Pages prix | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=December 8, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241208161451/http://www.bdfi.net/prix/prix.php?id=ozone | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
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| rowspan="1" |''[[Orphans of the Helix]]'' | | rowspan="1" |''[[Orphans of the Helix]]'' | ||
|2000 Locus Award | |2000 Locus Award | ||
|Novella | |Novella | ||
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2000 | title=Sfadb: Locus Awards 2000 }}</ref> | |<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2000 | title=Sfadb: Locus Awards 2000 | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=February 20, 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250220002410/https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2000 | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| rowspan="1" |''[[The Crook Factory]]'' | | rowspan="1" |''[[The Crook Factory]]'' | ||
|2000 Colorado Book Award | |2000 Colorado Book Award | ||
|Literary Fiction | |Literary Fiction | ||
|<ref> https://coloradohumanities.org/programs/colorado-book-awards/ </ref> | |<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://coloradohumanities.org/programs/colorado-book-awards/#tab-253c77d28c5c5ca36a6 |title=Literary Fiction – Past Winners |website=Colorado Humanities}}</ref> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| rowspan="2" |''[[A Winter Haunting]]'' | | rowspan="2" |''[[A Winter Haunting]]'' | ||
|2002 [[International Horror Guild Award]] | |2002 [[International Horror Guild Award]] | ||
|Novel | |Novel | ||
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://horroraward.org/prevrec.html | title= | |<ref>{{cite web | url=https://horroraward.org/prevrec.html | title=International Horror Guild | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=August 20, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820001911/https://horroraward.org/prevrec.html | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|2003 Colorado Book Award | |2003 Colorado Book Award | ||
|Fiction | |Fiction | ||
|<ref> https://coloradohumanities.org/programs/colorado-book-awards/ </ref> | |<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://coloradohumanities.org/programs/colorado-book-awards/#tab-08e5c1dbabf25c3dca3 |title=Genre Fiction – Past Winners |website=Colorado Humanities}}</ref> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| rowspan="2" |''[[Ilium (novel)|Ilium]]'' | | rowspan="2" |''[[Ilium (novel)|Ilium]]'' | ||
|2004 Locus Award | |2004 Locus Award | ||
|SF Novel | |SF Novel | ||
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?23854 | title=Title: Ilium }}</ref> | |<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?23854 | title=Title: Ilium | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=April 26, 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250426094250/https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?23854 | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|2004 SF Site Readers Poll | |2004 SF Site Readers Poll | ||
|SF/Fantasy Book | |SF/Fantasy Book | ||
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/SF_Site_Readers_Poll_2004 | title=Sfadb: SF Site Readers Poll 2004 }}</ref> | |<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/SF_Site_Readers_Poll_2004 | title=Sfadb: SF Site Readers Poll 2004 | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=May 15, 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250515035929/https://sfadb.com/SF_Site_Readers_Poll_2004 | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
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| rowspan="2" |''[[The Terror (novel)|The Terror]]'' | | rowspan="2" |''[[The Terror (novel)|The Terror]]'' | ||
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|2009 Black Quill Awards | |2009 Black Quill Awards | ||
|Dark Novel Genre of the Year (Readers' Choice) | |Dark Novel Genre of the Year (Readers' Choice) | ||
|<ref> http://www.darkscribemagazine.com/3rd-annual-winners/ </ref> | |<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=http://www.darkscribemagazine.com/3rd-annual-winners/ |title=Winners of the 3rd Annual Black Quill Awards |date=February 7, 2010 |magazine=Dark Scribe}}</ref> | ||
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===Nominations=== | ===Nominations=== | ||
Simmons has been nominated on numerous occasions in a range of categories for his fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Society Award, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.<ref>[http://www.worldswithoutend.com/author.asp?ID=38#books ''Works in the WWEnd Database''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105212603/http://www.worldswithoutend.com/author.asp?ID=38#books |date=November 5, 2020 }} for Dan Simmons.</ref> | |||
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! Work !! Year & Award!! Category!! Ref. | ! Work !! Year & Award!! Category!! Ref. | ||
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| rowspan="2" |''The River Styx Runs Upstream '' | | rowspan="2" |''The River Styx Runs Upstream'' | ||
|1983 [[Locus Award]] | |1983 [[Locus Award]] | ||
|Short Story | |Short Story | ||
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|1995 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | |1995 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | ||
|Prix spécial | |Prix spécial | ||
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+1995 | title=1995 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire }}</ref> | |<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+1995 | title=1995 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=May 26, 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250526222225/https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25%201995 | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
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| rowspan="3" |''Prayers To Broken Stones'' | | rowspan="3" |''Prayers To Broken Stones'' | ||
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|1990 SF Chronicle | |1990 SF Chronicle | ||
|Novel | |Novel | ||
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?36+1990 | title=1990 SF Chronicle Award }}</ref> | |<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?36+1990 | title=1990 SF Chronicle Award | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=October 7, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241007121553/https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?36+1990 | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
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|1993 [[Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire]] | |1993 [[Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire]] | ||
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|1992 [[British Fantasy Award]] | |1992 [[British Fantasy Award]] | ||
|August Derleth Award | |August Derleth Award | ||
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/British_Fantasy_Awards_1992 | title=Sfadb: British Fantasy Awards 1992 }}</ref> | |<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/British_Fantasy_Awards_1992 | title=Sfadb: British Fantasy Awards 1992 | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=May 2, 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250502005521/https://www.sfadb.com/British_Fantasy_Awards_1992 | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
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|1993 [[Kurd Laßwitz Award]] | |1993 [[Kurd Laßwitz Award]] | ||
|Foreign Work | |Foreign Work | ||
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64+1993 | title=1993 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis }}</ref> | |<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64+1993 | title=1993 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=August 7, 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250807060532/https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64+1993 | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
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| rowspan="1" |''Children of the Night'' | | rowspan="1" |''Children of the Night'' | ||
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|1996 [[Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire]] | |1996 [[Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire]] | ||
|Foreign Novel | |Foreign Novel | ||
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+1996 | title=1996 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire }}</ref> | |<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+1996 | title=1996 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=August 7, 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250807054743/https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+1996 | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
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| rowspan="2" |''[[The Hollow Man (1992 novel)|The Hollow Man]]'' | | rowspan="2" |''[[The Hollow Man (1992 novel)|The Hollow Man]]'' | ||
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|1995 Kurd Laßwitz Award | |1995 Kurd Laßwitz Award | ||
|Foreign Work | |Foreign Work | ||
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| rowspan="3" |''Flashback'' | | rowspan="3" |''Flashback'' | ||
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|2011 [[Goodreads Choice Awards]] | |2011 [[Goodreads Choice Awards]] | ||
|Science Fiction | |Science Fiction | ||
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-science-fiction-books-2011 | title=Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Science Fiction! }}</ref> | |<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-science-fiction-books-2011 | title=Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Science Fiction! | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=March 22, 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250322174906/https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-science-fiction-books-2011 | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
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| rowspan="1" |''Dying in Bangkok'' | | rowspan="1" |''Dying in Bangkok'' | ||
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|1998 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | |1998 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | ||
|Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories | |Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories | ||
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+1998 | title=1998 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire }}</ref> | |<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+1998 | title=1998 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=August 7, 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250807143236/https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+1998 | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
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| rowspan="3" |''[[Endymion (Simmons novel)|Endymion]]'' | | rowspan="3" |''[[Endymion (Simmons novel)|Endymion]]'' | ||
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|1998 Kurd Laßwitz Award | |1998 Kurd Laßwitz Award | ||
|Foreign Work | |Foreign Work | ||
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| rowspan="4" |''[[The Rise of Endymion]]'' | | rowspan="4" |''[[The Rise of Endymion]]'' | ||
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|2000 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | |2000 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | ||
|Foreign Novel | |Foreign Novel | ||
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+2000 | title=2000 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire }}</ref> | |<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+2000 | title=2000 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=August 7, 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250807060013/https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+2000 | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
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|2000 Kurd Laßwitz Award | |2000 Kurd Laßwitz Award | ||
|Foreign Work | |Foreign Work | ||
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64+2000 | title=2000 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis }}</ref> | |<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64+2000 | title=2000 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=August 7, 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250807054728/https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64%202000 | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
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| rowspan="1" |''[[Endymion (Simmons novel)|Endymion]]'' & ''[[The Rise of Endymion]]'' | | rowspan="1" |''[[Endymion (Simmons novel)|Endymion]]'' & ''[[The Rise of Endymion]]'' | ||
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|2005 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | |2005 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | ||
|Foreign Novel | |Foreign Novel | ||
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+2005 | title=2005 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire }}</ref> | |<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+2005 | title=2005 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=August 7, 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250807065813/https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25%202005 | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
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|2005 Kurd Laßwitz Award | |2005 Kurd Laßwitz Award | ||
|Foreign Work | |Foreign Work | ||
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|2007 Seiun Award | |2007 Seiun Award | ||
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|2008 [[Shirley Jackson Award]] | |2008 [[Shirley Jackson Award]] | ||
|Novel | |Novel | ||
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Shirley_Jackson_Awards_2008 | title=Sfadb: Shirley Jackson Awards 2008 }}</ref> | |<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Shirley_Jackson_Awards_2008 | title=Sfadb: Shirley Jackson Awards 2008 | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=December 10, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241210184125/http://www.sfadb.com/Shirley_Jackson_Awards_2008 | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
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|2008 British Fantasy Award | |2008 British Fantasy Award | ||
|August Derleth Award | |August Derleth Award | ||
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/British_Fantasy_Awards_2008 | title=Sfadb: British Fantasy Awards 2008 }}</ref> | |<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/British_Fantasy_Awards_2008 | title=Sfadb: British Fantasy Awards 2008 | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=December 28, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228151139/https://www.sfadb.com/British_Fantasy_Awards_2008 | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
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|2009 Premio Ignotus | |2009 Premio Ignotus | ||
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|2012 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | |2012 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | ||
|Foreign Novel | |Foreign Novel | ||
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| rowspan="1" |''The Guiding Nose of Ulfant Banderoz'' | | rowspan="1" |''The Guiding Nose of Ulfant Banderoz'' | ||
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|Translated Short Story | |Translated Short Story | ||
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===Finalists=== | ===Finalists=== | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
! Year !! Award !! Category !! Work !! Ref. | |||
! Year | |||
|- | |- | ||
| 1992||[[Arthur C. Clarke Award]]||Science Fiction Novel||''Hyperion Cantos''|| | | 1992||[[Arthur C. Clarke Award]]||Science Fiction Novel||''Hyperion Cantos''|| | ||
|} | |} | ||
===Other=== | ===Other=== | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
! Year !! Award !! Category !! Work !! Result !! Ref. | |||
|- | |- | ||
| 1999||SF Site Readers Poll ||SF/Fantasy Book||''The Rise of Endymion''||{{Nominated|6th Place}}||<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/SF_Site_Readers_Poll_1999 | title=Sfadb: SF Site Readers Poll 1999 | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=May 23, 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250523085121/https://www.sfadb.com/SF_Site_Readers_Poll_1999 | url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
|- | |- | ||
| | | 2006||SF Site Readers Poll ||SF/Fantasy Book||''Olympos''||{{Nominated|9th Place}}||<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/SF_Site_Readers_Poll_2006 | title=Sfadb: SF Site Readers Poll 2006 | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=March 19, 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250319013442/https://www.sfadb.com/SF_Site_Readers_Poll_2006 | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | 2008||SF Site Readers Poll ||SF/Fantasy Book||''The Terror''||{{Nominated|9th Place}}||<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/SF_Site_Readers_Poll_2008 | title=Sfadb: SF Site Readers Poll 2008 | access-date=March 5, 2025 | archive-date=December 8, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241208093344/http://www.sfadb.com/SF_Site_Readers_Poll_2008 | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 2014||RUSA CODES Reading List||Historical Fiction||''The Abominable''||{{sho}}||<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://rusaupdate.org/awards/the-reading-list/ |title=The Reading List {{!}} Historical Fiction – Short List |website=RUSA Update |year=2014}}</ref> | |||
| 2014||RUSA CODES Reading List||Historical Fiction||''The Abominable''||{{sho}}||<ref> https://rusaupdate.org/awards/the-reading-list/ </ref> | |||
|} | |} | ||
==Notes== | |||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
<references> | |||
<ref name="st090215">{{cite news |first=Mary Ann |last=Gwinn |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2008737263_drood15.html |title=Q&A: Dan Simmons, author of "Drood" |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |date=February 15, 2009}}</ref> | <ref name="st090215">{{cite news |first=Mary Ann |last=Gwinn |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2008737263_drood15.html |title=Q&A: Dan Simmons, author of "Drood" |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |date=February 15, 2009}}</ref> | ||
<ref name="WWE-1986">{{cite web |url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1986 |title = 1986 Award Winners & Nominees |work = Worlds Without End |access-date=2009-07-16}}</ref> | <ref name="WWE-1986">{{cite web |url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1986 |title = 1986 Award Winners & Nominees |work = Worlds Without End |access-date = 2009-07-16 |archive-date = April 11, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160411232428/https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1986 |url-status = live }}</ref> | ||
<ref name="WWE-1990">{{cite web |url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1990 |title = 1990 Award Winners & Nominees |work = Worlds Without End |access-date=2009-07-16}}</ref> | <ref name="WWE-1990">{{cite web |url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1990 |title = 1990 Award Winners & Nominees |work = Worlds Without End |access-date = 2009-07-16 |archive-date = July 30, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120730132838/https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1990 |url-status = live }}</ref> | ||
</references> | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:42, 1 May 2026
Daniel Joseph Simmons (April 4, 1948 – February 21, 2026) was an American science fiction and horror writer. He was the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works that span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. Simmons's genre-intermingling Song of Kali (1985) won the World Fantasy Award.[1] He also wrote mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz.
Biography
Born in Peoria, Illinois, on April 4, 1948,[2] Simmons started writing stories as a child with the goal of mesmerizing his audience with his story telling.[3] 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.[4]
Simmons soon started writing short stories, although his career did not take off until 1982, when, through Harlan Ellison's help, Simmons was invited to the Milford workshop, which Ellison considered to be "the best SF writing workshop in the world".[5] Simmons considered Ellison as a mentor, friend, and the reason he pursued writing full-time.[5] Simmons' 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's first novel, Song of Kali, was released in 1985.[4]
He worked in elementary education until 1989.[4]
Simmons died from complications of a stroke in Longmont, Colorado, on February 21, 2026, at the age of 77.[6][7]
Horror fiction
Summer of Night (1991) recounts the childhood of a group of pre-teens who band together in the 1960s, to defeat a centuries-old evil that terrorizes their hometown of Elm Haven, Illinois. The novel, which was praised by Stephen King in a cover blurb, is similar to King's It (1986) in its focus on small-town life, the corruption of innocence, the return of an ancient evil, and the responsibility for others that emerges with the transition from youth to adulthood.[citation needed]
In the sequel to Summer of Night, A Winter Haunting (2002), Dale Stewart (one of the first book's protagonists and now an adult), revisits his boyhood home to come to grips with mysteries that have disrupted his adult life.[citation needed]
Between the publication of Summer of Night (1991) and A Winter Haunting (2002), several additional characters from Summer of Night appeared in: Children of the Night (1992), a loose sequel to Summer of Night, which features Mike O'Rourke, now much older and a Roman Catholic priest, who is sent on a mission to investigate bizarre events in a European city; Fires of Eden (1994), in which the adult Cordie Cooke appears; and Darwin's Blade (2000), a thriller in which Dale's younger brother, Lawrence Stewart, appears as a minor character.[8][9]
After Summer of Night, Simmons focused on writing science fiction until the 2007 work of historical fiction and horror, The Terror. His 2009 book Drood is based on the last years of Charles Dickens's life leading up to the writing of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which Dickens had partially completed at the time of his death.[10]
Historical fiction
The Terror (2007) crosses the bridge between horror and historical fiction. It is a fictionalized account of Sir John Franklin and his expedition to find the Northwest Passage. The two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, become icebound the first winter, and the captains and crew struggle to survive while being stalked across an Arctic landscape by a monster. The novel was adapted into a ten-part television series.[citation needed]
The Abominable (2013) recounts a mid-1920s attempt on Mount Everest by five climbers—two British, one French, one Sherpa, and one American (the narrator)—to recover the body of a cousin of one of the British characters.[11]
Literary references
Many of Simmons's works have strong ties with classic literature.[12] For example:
- His 1989 novel Hyperion, winner of Hugo and Locus Awards for the best science fiction novel,[13] deals with a space war and is inspired in its structure by Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.[14]
- The Hyperion Cantos take their titles from poems by the British Romantic John Keats.[15]
- The title of Carrion Comfort, as well as many of its themes, derives from the poem "Carrion Comfort" by Gerard Manley Hopkins.[16]
- The Hollow Man (1992) is a novel influenced by Dante's Inferno and T. S. Eliot[17]
- "The Great Lover" (1993) is a short story inspired by the World War I War Poets[18]
- Simmons's collection of short stories, Worlds Enough & Time, takes its name from the first line of the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by English poet Andrew Marvell: "Had we but world enough, and time"[19]
- The detective in Flashback is named Nick Bottom after a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream[20]
Bibliography
Novels
Series
- Hyperion (1989) – ISBN 978-0553283686
- The Fall of Hyperion (1990) – ISBN 978-0553288209
- Endymion (1996) – ISBN 978-3453315174
- The Rise of Endymion (1997) – ISBN 978-0747258933
Related short fiction
- "Remembering Siri" (1983) – (Novelette), prequel to Hyperion[citation needed]
- "The Death of the Centaur" (1990) – (Novelette)[citation needed]
- "Orphans of the Helix" (1999) – (Novelette), sequel to The Rise of Endymion[citation needed]
Seasons of Horror
- Summer of Night (1991) – ISBN 978-0312550677
- Children of the Night (1992) – ISBN 978-1250009852
- Fires of Eden (1994) – ISBN 978-0061056147
- Darwin's Blade (2000) – ISBN 978-0380973699
- A Winter Haunting (2002) – ISBN 978-0380817160
Related
- Banished Dreams (1990), collects three prophetic dream sequences that were expurgated from the published edition of Summer of Night, entitled "Dale's Dream", "Kevin's Dream" and "Mike's Dream"[citation needed]
Joe Kurtz
- Hardcase (2001) – ISBN 978-0312980160
- Hard Freeze (2002) – ISBN 978-0316213509
- Hard as Nails (2003) – ISBN 978-0312994686
- Ilium (2003) – ISBN 978-0380817924
- Olympos (2005) – ISBN 978-0380817931
Standalone
- Song of Kali (1985) – ISBN 978-0312944087
- Carrion Comfort (1989), expansion of the eponymous novelette published in Prayers to Broken Stones – ISBN 978-0913165386
- Phases of Gravity (1989) – ISBN 978-0553277647
- The Hollow Man (1992) – ISBN 978-0935716641
- The Crook Factory (1999) – ISBN 978-0380973682
- The Terror (2007) – ISBN 978-0316017442
- Drood (2009) – ISBN 978-0316007023
- Black Hills (2010) – ISBN 978-1849160902
- Flashback (2011) – ISBN 978-0316006965
- The Abominable (2013)[21] – ISBN 978-0751550283
- The Fifth Heart (2015)[22] – ISBN 978-0316198820
- Omega Canyon[lower-alpha 1] (unpublished, original publication date 2025)[23] – ISBN 978-0316198912
Short stories
Collections
- Prayers to Broken Stones (1990), six short stories and seven novellas/novelettes:
- "The River Styx Runs Upstream", "Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams" (novelette), "Vanni Fucci Is Alive and Well and Living in Hell", "Vexed to Nightmare by a Rocking Cradle", "Remembering Siri" (novelette of Hyperion Cantos series), "Metastasis", "The Offering" (novelette), "E-Ticket to 'Namland" AKA "E-Ticket to Namland" (novelette), "Iverson's Pits" (novella), "Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites", "The Death of the Centaur" (novelette of Hyperion Cantos series), "Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds", "Carrion Comfort" (novelette)
- Lovedeath (1993), collection of five novelettes and novellas
- "Entropy's Bed at Midnight" (novelette), "Dying in Bangkok" AKA "Death in Bangkok" (novelette), "Sleeping with Teeth Women" (novella), "Flashback" (novelette), "The Great Lover" (novella)
- Worlds Enough & Time (2002), collection of five novellas/novelettes:
- "Looking for Kelly Dahl" (novella), "Orphans of the Helix" (novelette from Hyperion Cantos series), "The Ninth of Av" (novella), "On K2 with Kanakaredes" (novelette), "The End of Gravity" (novella)
Uncollected short fiction
- "Presents of Mind" (1986, with Edward Bryant, Steve Rasnic Tem and Connie Willis)
- "Dying Is Easy, Comedy Is Hard" (1990, with Edward Bryant) – (Novelette)
- "The Counselor" (1991) – (Novelette)
- "All Dracula's Children" (1991) – (Novelette)
- "My Private Memoirs of the Hoffer Stigmata Pandemic" (1991)
- "This Year's Class Picture" (1992) (Appeared in The Living Dead, an anthology edited by John Joseph Adams)
- "Elm Haven, IL" (1992) – (Novelette), from Freak Show series
- "One Small Step for Max" (1992)
- "My Copsa Micas" (1994) – (Novelette)
- Madame Bovary, C'est Moi (2000)
- Muse of Fire (2007) – (Novella)
- The Guiding Nose of Ulfänt Banderōz (2009) – (Novella) published as a chapbook and set in Jack Vance's Dying Earth setting
- The Final Pogrom (2024)
Non-fiction
- Going After the Rubber Chicken (1991), a collection of three convention guest-of-honor speeches by Simmons
- Summer Sketches (1992), Simmons reveals how his travel experiences have allowed him to instill a feeling of place in readers of his fiction
- Negative Spaces: Two talks (1999), about science fiction
Adaptations
In January 2004, it was announced that the screenplay he wrote for his novels Ilium and Olympos would be made into a film by Digital Domain and Barnet Bain Films, with Simmons acting as executive producer. Ilium is described as an "epic tale that spans 5,000 years and sweeps across the entire solar system, including themes and characters from Homer's Iliad and Shakespeare's The Tempest."[24]
In 2008, Guillermo del Toro was scheduled to direct a film adaptation of Drood for Universal Pictures.[25] As of December 2017, the project is still listed as "in development".[26]
In 2009, Scott Derrickson was set to direct Hyperion Cantos for Warner Bros. and Graham King, with Trevor Sands penning a script adapting Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion into one film.[27] In 2011, actor Bradley Cooper expressed interest in taking over the adaptation.[28] In 2015, it was announced that TV channel Syfy would produce a miniseries based on the Hyperion Cantos with the involvement of Cooper and King.[29] As of May 2017, the project was still "in development" at Syfy.[30] On November 1, 2021, Cooper and King restarted the feature film adaptation at Warner Bros., with Tom Spezialy set to write the script.[31]
The Terror (2007) was adapted in 2018 as an AMC 10-episode miniseries and received generally positive reviews upon release.[32][33]
Awards
Wins
| Work | Year & Award | Category | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Song of Kali | 1986 World Fantasy Award | Novel | |
| Carrion Comfort | 1989 Bram Stoker Award | Novel | |
| 1990 Locus Award | Horror Novel | ||
| 1990 British Fantasy Award | August Derleth Award | ||
| Hyperion | 1990 Locus Award | SF Novel | [34] |
| 1990 Hugo Award | Novel | ||
| 1991 Premio Ignotus | Foreign Novel | ||
| 1995 Seiun Award | Translated Long Story | ||
| 1998 Tähtivaeltaja Award | |||
| The Fall of Hyperion | 1991 Locus Award | SF Novel | |
| 1991 SF Chronicle Award | Novel | [35] | |
| 1991 BSFA Award | Novel | ||
| 1996 Seiun Award | Translated Long Work | ||
| Entropy's Bed at Midnight | 1991 Locus Award | Novelette | |
| 1991 Readercon Awards | Short Work | [36] | |
| Prayers to Broken Stones | 1991 Bram Stoker Award | Fiction Collection | |
| Summer of Night | 1992 Locus Award | Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel | |
| All Dracula's Children | 1992 Locus Award | Novelette | |
| This Year's Class Picture | 1992 Bram Stoker Award | Short Fiction | |
| 1993 World Fantasy Award | Short Fiction | ||
| 1993 Theodore Sturgeon Award | Short Science Fiction | ||
| 1999 Seiun Award | Translated Short Story | ||
| 2009 FantLab's Book of the Year Award | Novella/Short Story | ||
| 2010 Nocte Award
(listed as La foto de la clase de este año) |
Foreign Short Story | ||
| Children of the Night | 1993 Locus Award | Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel | [37] |
| Dying in Bangkok | 1993 Bram Stoker Award | Novelette | |
| 1994 Locus Award | Novelette | ||
| Fires of Eden | 1995 Locus Award | Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel | |
| The Great Lover | 1996 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories | |
| The Rise of Endymion | 1998 Locus Award | SF Novel | |
| 1998 SF Chronicle Award | Novel | [38] | |
| 1999 Prix Zone | Foreign SF Novel | [39] | |
| Orphans of the Helix | 2000 Locus Award | Novella | [40] |
| The Crook Factory | 2000 Colorado Book Award | Literary Fiction | [41] |
| A Winter Haunting | 2002 International Horror Guild Award | Novel | [42] |
| 2003 Colorado Book Award | Fiction | [43] | |
| Ilium | 2004 Locus Award | SF Novel | [44] |
| 2004 SF Site Readers Poll | SF/Fantasy Book | [45] | |
| The Terror | 2007 International Horror Guild Award | Novel | |
| 2008 FantLab's Book of the Year Award | Novel/Collection | ||
| Drood | 2009 Black Quill Awards | Dark Novel Genre of the Year (Readers' Choice) | [46] |
| 2013 World Horror Convention Grand Master Award |
Nominations
Simmons has been nominated on numerous occasions in a range of categories for his fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Society Award, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.[47]
| Work | Year & Award | Category | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| The River Styx Runs Upstream | 1983 Locus Award | Short Story | [34] |
| 2012 FantLab's Book of the Year Award | Translated Novella or Short Story | ||
| Remembering Siri | 1984 Locus Award | Novelette | |
| Song of Kali | 1986 Locus Award | First Novel | |
| Metastasis | 1989 World Fantasy Award | Short Fiction | |
| Phases of Gravity | 1990 Locus Award | SF Novel | |
| 1995 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Prix spécial | [48] | |
| Prayers To Broken Stones
Collection |
1990 Bram Stoker Award | Fiction Collection | |
| 1990 Locus Award | Collection | ||
| 1991 World Fantasy Award | Collection | ||
| Entropy's Bed at Midnight | 1990 Bram Stoker Award | Long Fiction | |
| 2012 FantLab's Book of the Year Award | Translated Novella or Short Story | ||
| Hyperion | 1990 BFSA Award | Novel | |
| 1990 SF Chronicle | Novel | [49] | |
| 1993 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Novel | ||
| Carrion Comfort | 1990 World Fantasy Award | Novel | |
| The Fall of Hyperion | 1991 Hugo Award | Novel | |
| 1991 Nebula Award | Novel | ||
| Summer of Night | 1991 Bram Stoker Award | Novel | |
| 1992 British Fantasy Award | August Derleth Award | [50] | |
| 1993 Kurd Laßwitz Award | Foreign Work | [51] | |
| Children of the Night | 1992 Bram Stoker Award | Novel | |
| Lovedeath | 1993 Bram Stoker Award | Fiction Collection | |
| 1994 Locus Award | Collection | ||
| 1996 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Novel | [52] | |
| The Hollow Man | 1993 Locus Award | SF Novel | |
| 1995 Kurd Laßwitz Award | Foreign Work | [53] | |
| Flashback | 1993 Bram Stoker Award | Novella | |
| 1994 Locus Award | Novella | ||
| 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards | Science Fiction | [54] | |
| Dying in Bangkok | 1994 World Fantasy Award | Short Fiction | |
| Looking for Kelly Dahl | 1996 Locus Award | Novella | |
| 1998 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories | [55] | |
| Endymion | 1997 Locus Award | SF Novel | |
| 1998 Premio Ignotus | Foreign Novel | ||
| 1998 Kurd Laßwitz Award | Foreign Work | [56] | |
| The Rise of Endymion | 1998 Hugo Award | Novel | |
| 1999 Premio Ignotus | Foreign Novel | ||
| 2000 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Novel | [57] | |
| 2000 Kurd Laßwitz Award | Foreign Work | [58] | |
| Endymion & The Rise of Endymion | 2000 Seiun Award | Translated Long Work | |
| Madame Bovary, c'est moi | 2001 Locus Award | Short Story | |
| Orphans of the Helix | 2001 Premio Ignotus | Foreign Story | |
| On K2 with Kanakaredes | 2002 Locus Award | Novelette | |
| Worlds Enough & Time | 2003 Locus Award | Collection | |
| 2005 Kurd Laßwitz Award | Foreign Work | ||
| A Winter Haunting | 2003 Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | |
| Ilium | 2004 Hugo Award | Novel | |
| 2005 Premio Ignotus | Foreign Novel | ||
| 2005 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Novel | [59] | |
| 2005 Kurd Laßwitz Award | Foreign Work | [60] | |
| 2007 Seiun Award | Translated Long Work | ||
| Olympos | 2006 Locus Award | SF Novel | |
| 2008 Seiun Award | Translated Long Work | ||
| The Terror | 2007 Black Quill Award | Dark Genre Novel of the Year | [61] |
| 2007 Bram Stoker Award | Novel | ||
| 2008 Shirley Jackson Award | Novel | [62] | |
| 2008 British Fantasy Award | August Derleth Award | [63] | |
| 2009 Premio Ignotus | Foreign Novel | ||
| Muse of Fire | 2008 Locus Award | Novella | |
| Drood | 2010 Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | |
| 2011 FantLab's Book of the Year Award | Translated Novel/Collection | ||
| 2012 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Novel | [64] | |
| The Guiding Nose of Ulfant Banderoz | 2017 Seiun Award | Translated Short Story |
Finalists
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Arthur C. Clarke Award | Science Fiction Novel | Hyperion Cantos |
Other
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | SF Site Readers Poll | SF/Fantasy Book | The Rise of Endymion | Template:Nominated | [65] |
| 2006 | SF Site Readers Poll | SF/Fantasy Book | Olympos | Template:Nominated | [66] |
| 2008 | SF Site Readers Poll | SF/Fantasy Book | The Terror | Template:Nominated | [67] |
| 2014 | RUSA CODES Reading List | Historical Fiction | The Abominable | Shortlisted | [68] |
Notes
- ↑ Omega Canyon is listed as available on several booksellers websites; however as of February 2026 the book is still unable to be purchased, with no information as to when the book will be available.
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- ↑ Carlson, Michael (March 22, 2026). "Dan Simmons obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved March 22, 2026.
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- ↑ "Daniel Joseph Simmons Obituary". DignityMemorial.com. Dignity Memorial. February 21, 2026. Archived from the original on February 28, 2026. Retrieved February 27, 2026.
- ↑ "One of the greatest modern science fiction authors, Dan Simmons, has died". Archived from the original on February 27, 2026. Retrieved February 27, 2026.
- ↑ "Review: Darwin's Blade". Publishers Weekly. October 30, 2000. Archived from the original on August 13, 2018. Retrieved August 13, 2018.
- ↑ Simmons, Dan (2000). Darwin's Blade. William Morrow. ISBN 978-0-380-97369-9.
- ↑ Gwinn, Mary Ann (February 15, 2009). "Q&A: Dan Simmons, author of "Drood"". The Seattle Times.
- ↑ Robbins, Michael (October 20, 2013). "Review: 'The Abominable' by Dan Simmons". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on August 13, 2018. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
- ↑ "SFE: Simmons, Dan". sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved February 27, 2026.
- ↑ "1990 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Archived from the original on July 30, 2012. Retrieved July 16, 2009.
- ↑ Miller, T. S. (2013). "Flying Chaucers, Insectile Ecclesiasts, and Pilgrims Through Space and Time: The Science Fiction Chaucer". The Chaucer Review. 48 (2). doi:10.5325/chaucerrev.48.2.0129. S2CID 161558250. Archived from the original on July 26, 2017. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
- ↑ "John Keats". Poetry Foundation. September 6, 2018. Archived from the original on September 5, 2018. Retrieved September 7, 2018.
- ↑ Willems, Brian (2009). Hopkins and Heidegger. London: Continuum. ISBN 9781441169563.
- ↑ Feeley, Gregory (September 27, 1992). "The Hollow Man". The Washington Post.
- ↑ Stableford, Brian (March 1, 2009). News of the Black Feast and Other Random Reviews. Wildside Press LLC. pp. 73–74. ISBN 9781434403360.
- ↑ Marvell, A. (1981). "To his coy mistress." The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved on 17 October 2018 from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44688/to-his-coy-mistress Archived October 15, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Owchar, Nick (August 7, 2011). "Book review: 'Flashback' by Dan Simmons". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on December 14, 2018. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
- ↑ "Dan Simmons The Abominable cover art reveal!". Upcoming4.me. March 14, 2013. Archived from the original on March 19, 2013. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
- ↑ "Dan Simmons To Release 'The Fifth Heart', His Next Book After 'The Abominable'". Kernel's Corner. March 10, 2014. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
- ↑ Simmons, Dan (March 14, 2025). Omega Canyon. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-19891-2. Archived from the original on January 21, 2025. Retrieved March 14, 2025 – via Hachette Book Group.
- ↑ Marc Graser; Jonathan Bing (January 8, 2004). "'Ilium,' 'Olympos' optioned for pic". Variety. Archived from the original on May 8, 2018. Retrieved April 29, 2019.
- ↑ Fleming, Michael Jr. (September 3, 2008). "Guillermo Del Toro booked thru 2017". Variety. Archived from the original on October 10, 2023. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
- ↑ "Drood". IMDB.com. Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on September 3, 2018. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
- ↑ Fleming, Michael (January 29, 2009). "Scott Derrickson to direct 'Hyperion'". Variety. Archived from the original on July 22, 2015. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
- ↑ Falconer, Robert (May 27, 2011). "Bradley Cooper Anxious to Adapt Dan Simmons's Hyperion for the Screen". Cinemaspy. Archived from the original on July 3, 2012. Retrieved 2012-12-10.
- ↑ Goldberg, Lesley (June 10, 2015). "Bradley Cooper, Graham King, Todd Phillips Adapting Dan Simmons' 'Hyperion' for Syfy". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on December 15, 2019. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
- ↑ Fowler, Matt (May 12, 2017). "Syfy Reboot Includes Greenlit Krypton Series, George R.R. Martin's Nightflyers and More". IGN News. Archived from the original on June 16, 2018. Retrieved May 28, 2017.
- ↑ D'Alessandro, Anthony (November 1, 2021). "Bradley Cooper Launches Production Label; Sets 'Hyperion' At Warner Bros With Graham King". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 5, 2022.
- ↑ "The Terror: Season 1 (2018)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on April 19, 2018. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
- ↑ "The Terror Reviews". Metacritic. Archived from the original on April 6, 2018. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
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- ↑ "Sfadb: Readercon Awards 1991". Archived from the original on August 7, 2025. Retrieved March 5, 2025.
- ↑ "Sfadb: Locus Awards 1993". Archived from the original on March 12, 2025. Retrieved March 5, 2025.
- ↑ "Sfadb: Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll 1998".
- ↑ "Pages prix". Archived from the original on December 8, 2024. Retrieved March 5, 2025.
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- ↑ "Sfadb: SF Site Readers Poll 2004". Archived from the original on May 15, 2025. Retrieved March 5, 2025.
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