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Dan Simmons

Index Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer. [1]

87 relations: A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Winter Haunting, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Arthur C. Clarke Award, Bachelor of Arts, Bradley Cooper, Bram Stoker Award, BSFA Award, Carrion Comfort, Charles Dickens, Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, Drood (novel), Endymion (Simmons novel), Fantasy, Fires of Eden, Forbidden Planet, Genre, Geoffrey Chaucer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Giovanni Boccaccio, Hard as Nails (novel), Hard Freeze, Hardcase (novel), Harlan Ellison, Historical fiction, Homer, Horror fiction, Hugo Award, Hyperion (Simmons novel), Hyperion Cantos, Iain Banks, Ilium (novel), Ilium/Olympos, Illinois, International Horror Guild Award, It (novel), Jack Vance, John Franklin, John Keats, Locus Award, Marcel Proust, Master of Education, Metacritic, Mount Everest, Muse of Fire, Nebula Award, Nick Bottom, Nocte Award, Northwest Passage, ..., Olympos (novel), Peoria, Illinois, Prayers to Broken Stones, Rotten Tomatoes, Science fiction, Scott Derrickson, Seiun Award, Song of Kali, Stephen King, Summer of Night, Syfy, T. S. Eliot, Televangelism, The Canterbury Tales, The Crook Factory, The Decameron, The Fall of Hyperion (novel), The Hollow Man (Simmons novel), The Hollywood Reporter, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Rise of Endymion, The Seattle Times, The Terror (novel), The Time Machine, Thriller (genre), To His Coy Mistress, Twilight Zone literature, Variety (magazine), Vladimir Nabokov, Wabash College, War poet, Warner Bros., Washington University in St. Louis, William Shakespeare, World Fantasy Award, World War I, 1989 in literature. Expand index (37 more) »

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96.

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A Winter Haunting

A Winter Haunting is a 2002 horror novel by American writer Dan Simmons.

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Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969.

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Arthur C. Clarke Award

The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.

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Bradley Cooper

Bradley Charles Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is an American actor and producer.

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Bram Stoker Award

The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented annually by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in dark fantasy and horror writing.

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BSFA Award

The BSFA Awards are literary awards presented annually since 1970 by the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) to honour works in the genre of science fiction.

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Carrion Comfort

Carrion Comfort is a science fiction/horror novel by American writer Dan Simmons, published in 1989 in hard cover by Dark Harvest and in 1990 in paperback by Warner Books.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri, commonly known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante (c. 1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages.

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Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) is a long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321.

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Drood (novel)

Drood is a novel written by Dan Simmons.

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Endymion (Simmons novel)

Endymion is the third science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons, part of his Hyperion Cantos fictional universe.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

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Fires of Eden

Fires of Eden is a novel by American writer Dan Simmons, published in 1994.

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Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet is a 1956 American science fiction film produced by Nicholas Nayfack, directed by Fred M. Wilcox that stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen.

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Genre

Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets.

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Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio (16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist.

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Hard as Nails (novel)

Hard as Nails is a 2003 novel by American writer Dan Simmons.

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Hard Freeze

Hard Freeze is a 2002 novel by American writer Dan Simmons.

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Hardcase (novel)

Hardcase is a 2001 novel by American writer Dan Simmons.

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Harlan Ellison

Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction, and for his outspoken, combative personality.

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Historical fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος, Hómēros) is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.

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Horror fiction

Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.

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Hugo Award

The Hugo Awards are a set of literary awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.

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Hyperion (Simmons novel)

Hyperion is a Hugo Award-winning 1989 science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons.

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Hyperion Cantos

The Hyperion Cantos is a series of science fiction novels by Dan Simmons.

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Iain Banks

Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author.

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Ilium (novel)

Ilium is a science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons, the first part of the Ilium/Olympos cycle, concerning the re-creation of the events in the Iliad on an alternate Earth and Mars.

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Ilium/Olympos

Ilium/Olympos is a series of two science fiction novels by Dan Simmons.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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International Horror Guild Award

The International Horror Guild Award (also known as the IHG Award) was an accolade recognizing excellence in the field of horror/dark fantasy, presented by the International Horror Guild (IHG) from 1995 to 2008.

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It (novel)

It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King.

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Jack Vance

John Holbrook "Jack" Vance (August 28, 1916 – May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer.

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John Franklin

Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin KCH FRGS (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was an English Royal Navy officer and explorer of the Arctic.

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John Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet.

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Locus Award

The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards by the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus, a monthly based in Oakland, California, United States.

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Marcel Proust

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922), known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier rendered as Remembrance of Things Past), published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.

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Master of Education

The Master of Education (M.Ed. or Ed.M.; Latin Magister Educationis or Educationis Magister) is a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries.

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.

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Mount Everest

Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmāthā and in Tibetan as Chomolungma, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.

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Muse of Fire

Muse of Fire is a science fiction novella by Dan Simmons.

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Nebula Award

The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States.

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Nick Bottom

Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who provides comic relief throughout the play.

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Nocte Award

The Nocte Award is a Spanish literary award presented by Nocte (Spanish Horror Writers Association) to those books worthy of mention published in Spain in the previous year, and also to those initiatives and careers that then and now dignify horror literature.

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Northwest Passage

The Northwest Passage (abbreviated as NWP) is, from the European and northern Atlantic point of view, the sea route to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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Olympos (novel)

Olympos is a science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons published in 2005; it is the sequel to Ilium and final part of the Ilium/Olympos series.

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Peoria, Illinois

Peoria is the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, and the largest city on the Illinois River.

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Prayers to Broken Stones

Prayers to Broken Stones is a short story anthology by American author Dan Simmons.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Scott Derrickson

Scott Derrickson (born July 16, 1966) is an American director, screenwriter and producer.

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Seiun Award

The is a Japanese speculative fiction award for the best science fiction works and achievements during the preceding year.

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Song of Kali

Song of Kali is a horror novel by American writer Dan Simmons, published in 1985.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Summer of Night

Summer of Night is the first in a series of horror novels by American writer Dan Simmons, published in 1991 by Warner Aspect.

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Syfy

Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel and Sci Fi) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".

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Televangelism

Televangelism is the use of media, specifically radio and television, to communicate Christianity.

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The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales (Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.

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The Crook Factory

The Crook Factory is a thriller novel by American author Dan Simmons.

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The Decameron

The Decameron (Italian title: "Decameron" or "Decamerone"), subtitled "Prince Galehaut" (Old Prencipe Galeotto and sometimes nicknamed "Umana commedia", "Human comedy"), is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375).

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The Fall of Hyperion (novel)

The Fall of Hyperion is the second novel in the Hyperion Cantos, a science fiction series by American author Dan Simmons.

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The Hollow Man (Simmons novel)

The Hollow Man is a novel by American author Dan Simmons.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is a multi-platform American digital and print magazine founded in 1930 and focusing on the Hollywood film industry, television, and entertainment industries, as well as Hollywood's intersection with fashion, finance, law, technology, lifestyle, and politics.

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens.

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The Rise of Endymion

The Rise of Endymion is a 1997 science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons.

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The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times is a daily newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, United States.

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The Terror (novel)

The Terror is a 2007 novel by American author Dan Simmons.

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The Time Machine

The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative.

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Thriller (genre)

Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television, having numerous, often overlapping subgenres.

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To His Coy Mistress

"To His Coy Mistress" is a metaphysical poem written by the English author and politician Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) either during or just before the English Interregnum (1649–60).

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Twilight Zone literature

Twilight Zone literature is an umbrella term for the many books and comic books which concern or adapt The Twilight Zone television series.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist.

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Wabash College

Wabash College is a small, private, men's liberal arts college in Crawfordsville, Indiana.

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War poet

A war poet is a poet who participates in a war and writes about his experiences, or a non-combatant who write poems about war.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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World Fantasy Award

The World Fantasy Awards are a set of awards given each year for the best fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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1989 in literature

This article presents a list of publications of literature, awards given, and births and deaths of major literary figures during 1989.

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Black Hills (novel), Dan Simmon, Flashback (novel), Phases of Gravity, The Abominable, The Fifth Heart.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Simmons

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