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
real imagination people
...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world'...
life waiting found
God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.
life real way
Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.
wall light law
There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked it. Conservative columnists acidly pointed out that hungry people don't steal stereo systems first and called for a crackdown in law enforcement. All of the reasoned editorials sounded hollow in light of the perverse randomness of the event. It was as if only a thin wall of electric lighting protected the great cities of the world from total barbarism.
real childhood geography
What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?
science thinking fiction
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
understanding lasts welcome
It is a mystery, and to tell the truth, I am intrigued by mysteries even if this is to be my last week of enjoying them. I would welcome some glimmer of understanding but, failing that, working on the puzzle will suffice.
writing relax exhausted
It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
art drunk quality
Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
ios want phrases
Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better. Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.
leadership political age
Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.
self design humanity
We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.
death heart sight
Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight.
art careers obscurity
Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.