Dan Simmons
![Dan Simmons](/assets/img/authors/dan-simmons.jpg)
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
art careers obscurity
Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.
art opportunity skills
Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.
american-author common frowned praised subversive
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.