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
avenue offers venue
This is a grassroots-level venue that offers an avenue for anglers that aren't necessarily on a professional level.
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Finally, there's the simple fact that I would be bored silly if I read in only one genre or one type of author - so why write in only one form?
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I really appreciated his theme of life evolving from one race of gods to another, with one power having to give way to another, as Hyperion must.
dream soul humanity
There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have paid for it with their humanity and their immortal souls.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction
humor together violence
It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
ignorance shields losing
Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.
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.
love love-is lust
Love is nothing but lust misspelled.
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.
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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
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.