Dan Simmons

Biography

Horror fiction

Historical fiction

Literary references

• His 1989 novel Hyperion, winner of Hugo and Locus Awards for the best science fiction novel, deals with a space war and is inspired in its structure by Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
• The Hyperion Cantos take their titles from poems by the British Romantic John Keats.
• The title of Carrion Comfort, as well as many of its themes, derives from the poem "Carrion Comfort" by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
• [The Hollow Man (1992 novel)|The Hollow Man] is a novel influenced by Dante's Inferno and T. S. Eliot
• "The Great Lover" is a short story inspired by the World War I War Poets
• Simmons's collection of short stories, Worlds Enough & Time, takes its name from the first line of the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by English poet Andrew Marvell: "Had we but world enough, and time"
• The detective in Flashback is named Nick Bottom after a character in Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''

  Novels

Series

[Hyperion Cantos]

1. Hyperion –
2. The [Fall of Hyperion (novel)|The Fall of Hyperion] –
3. Endymion –
4. The Rise of Endymion –

   Related short fiction

• "Remembering Siri" - ', prequel to Hyperion
• "The Death of the Centaur" - '
• "Orphans of the Helix" - , sequel to ''The Rise of Endymion''

  Seasons of Horror

1. Summer of Night –
2. Children of the Night –
3. Fires of Eden –
4. Darwin's Blade –
5. A Winter Haunting –

   Related

• Banished Dreams, collects three prophetic dream sequences that were expurgated from the published edition of Summer of Night, entitled "Dale's Dream", "Kevin's Dream" and "Mike's Dream"

  Joe Kurtz

1. Hardcase –
2. Hard Freeze –
3. Hard as Nails –

   ''[Ilium/Olympos]''

4. Ilium –
5. Olympos –

   Standalone

• Song of Kali –
• Carrion Comfort, expansion of the eponymous novelette published in Prayers to Broken Stones –
• Phases of Gravity –
• The Hollow Man –
• The Crook Factory –
• The Terror –
• Drood –
• Black Hills –
• Flashback –
• The Abominable –
• The Fifth Heart –
• Omega Canyon –

  Short stories

Collections

• Prayers to Broken Stones, six short stories and seven novellas/novelettes:
• : "The River Styx Runs Upstream", "Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams", "Vanni Fucci Is Alive and Well and Living in Hell", "Vexed to Nightmare by a Rocking Cradle", "Remembering Siri", "Metastasis", "The Offering", "E-Ticket to 'Namland" AKA "E-Ticket to Namland", "Iverson's Pits", "Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites", "The Death of the Centaur", "Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds", "Carrion Comfort"
• Lovedeath, collection of five novelettes and novellas
• : "Entropy's Bed at Midnight", "Dying in Bangkok" AKA "Death in Bangkok", "Sleeping with Teeth Women", "Flashback", "The Great Lover"
• Worlds Enough & Time, collection of five novellas/novelettes:
• : "Looking for Kelly Dahl", "Orphans of the Helix", "The Ninth of Av", "On K2 with Kanakaredes", "The End of Gravity"

  Uncollected short fiction

• "Presents of Mind"
• "Dying Is Easy, Comedy Is Hard" - '
• "The Counselor" - '
• "All Dracula's Children" - '
• "My Private Memoirs of the Hoffer Stigmata Pandemic"
• "This Year's Class Picture"
• "Elm Haven, IL" - ', from Freak Show series
• "One Small Step for Max"
• "My Copsa Micas" - '
• Madame Bovary, C'est Moi
• Muse of Fire - '
• The Guiding Nose of Ulfänt Banderōz - published as a chapbook and set in Jack Vance's Dying Earth setting
• ''The Final Pogrom''

  Non-fiction

• Going After the Rubber Chicken, a collection of three convention guest-of-honor speeches by Simmons
• Summer Sketches, Simmons reveals how his travel experiences have allowed him to instill a feeling of place in readers of his fiction
• Negative Spaces: Two talks, about science fiction

  Adaptations

Awards

Wins

Nominations

Finalists

Other