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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 4 April 1948
- Died
- 2026
- Works
- 143
Top works
- The Terror
- Hyperion [1/2]
- Hyperion [2/2]
- The Fall of Hyperion [1/2]
- The Fall of Hyperion [2/2]
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1948-04-04
- Active to
- 2026-02-21
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,556
- Total plays
- 91,723
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Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois) is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle. He spans genres such as science fiction, horror and fantasy, sometimes within the same novel: a typical example of Simmons' ability to intermingle genres is Song of Kali (1985), winner of World Fantasy Award. He is also a respected author of mysteries and thrillers. <a href="ht
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,942x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,157x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,860x
- The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system
· 2011 · cited 20,707x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,776x
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Quotes
- ““I ignore religions,” said Brawne Lamia. “I do not succumb to them.””
- “I now understand the need for faith—pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith—as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.”
- “The lieutenant took his time scanning their visa chips, letting them wait in the drizzle, occasionally making a comment with the idle arrogance common to such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.”
- “In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
- “Belief in one’s identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one’s immortality...and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.”
- “Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Daniel Joseph Simmons , ( 1948-04-04 ) April 4, 1948, Peoria, Illinois , U.S.
- Died
- February 21, 2026 (2026-02-21) (aged 77) , Longmont, Colorado , U.S.
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Education
- Wabash College ( BA ), WashU ( MEd )
- Period
- 1983–2026
- Genre
- Science fiction , horror fantasy
- Notable works
- Song of Kali (1985) Hyperion (1989) Carrion Comfort (1989) The Terror (2007)
- Spouse
- Karen Simmons
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Encyclopedic overview
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. He also wrote mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dan Simmons” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.