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
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.
law being-ignored habit
Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.
insanity mind would-be
If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.
fall serious-illness black
There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.
self design humanity
We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.
faith bullshit degrees
All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.
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.
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.