Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons
Dan Simmonsis an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 April 1948
CountryUnited States of America
diversity design evolution
Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.
book ideas shadow
Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the concept of the approximation of the shadow of Truth vertically through time as well as longitudinally through knowledge.
blow reality wind
The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.
ideas cubes gas
Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.
life retreat
Life doesn't retreat.
love love-is lust
Love is nothing but lust misspelled.
self way waste
A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
sex pain mistake
To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.
loyalty love-is dust
In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.
expression once-upon-a-time brain
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another intelligence that it would be the result of a huge project ... a great mass of silicon and ancient transistors and chips and circuit boards ... a machine with lots of networking circuits, in other words, aping-if you will pardon the expression-the human brain in form and function. Of course, AIs did not evolve that way. They sort of slipped into existence when we humans were looking the other way.
mobility doe twins
Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion
war lessons may
Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.
dream machines sometimes
Sometimes ... dreams are all that separate us from the machines.
economy petroleum
Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.