Dan Simmons

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1985
  • Latest Book:
    July 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Hyperion

1 - Hyperion (Jun-1989)
2 - The Fall of Hyperion (Feb-1990)
3 - Endymion (Dec-1995)
4 - The Rise of Endymion (Aug-1997)

A Joe Kurtz Novel

1 - Hardcase (Jul-2001)
2 - Hard Freeze (Aug-2002)
3 - Hard as Nails (Oct-2003)

Summer of Night

1 - Summer of Night (1991)
2 - A Winter Haunting (Jan-2002)

Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • Song of Kali

    Robert Luczak, an American journalist on assignment in Calcutta, experiences firsthand unforgettably horrifying proof of the existence of the Cult of Kali. Despite the banishment of the evil Goddess of Destruction thousands of years ago, Her terri...

  • Hyperion

    Hyperion - 1

    A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable epic by the multiple-award-winning author of The Hollow Man.<...

  • Prayers to Broken Stones

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    Dark, disturbing, inventive, provocative: these are the qualities that have made Dan Simmons an award-winning master of brilliantly speculative science fiction and nightmarish horror. Now the author of acclaimed novels such as Hyperion, Phases of Gra...

  • The Fall of Hyperion

    Hyperion - 2

    Now, in the stunning conclusion to the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that ...

  • Carrion Comfort

    All humans feed on violence. But only those with the Ability have tasted the ultimate power. Ordinary vampires possess the body. But only those who use the living can violate the soul. They gather their strength through the years. They plot the...

  • Summer of Night

    Summer of Night - 1

    It's the summer of 1960. The sixth-grade boys of Elm Haven, Illinois, are forging the powerful, magical bonds that a lifetime of growth and loss will never erase. Amid the sun-drenched cornfields and the sly flirtations of the town's young girls, tha...

  • Phases of Gravity

    Richard Baedecker thinks his greatest challenge was walking on the moon, but then he meets a mysterious woman who shows him his past. Join Baedecker as he comes to grips with the son and wife he lost in his passion for space exploration, his forgotte...

  • Children of the Night

    In a desolate orphanage in what remains of post-Communist Romania, a desperately ill infant is given the wrong blood transfusion--and flourishes when he's sup-posed to die. The discovery of his unique immune system may hold the key to the long-awaite...

  • The Hollow Man

    Jeremy Bremen has a secret. All his life he's been cursed with the ability to read minds. He knows the secret thoughts, fears, and desires of others as if they were his own. For years, his wife, Gail, has served as a shield between Jeremy and the bur...



  • Lovedeath

    A father and daughter drive straight into a cosmic battle between love and laughter on one side and pain and death on the other .... In the Asian flesh bazaars, a woman has the power to seduce both body and soul .... A young Sioux on a vision quest m...

  • Fires of Eden

    When a billionaire developer builds a luxurious resort on the Kona Coast of Hawaii, he reopens a centuries-old battle between a volcano goddess and her immortal enemies, and the ensuing chaos brings about the death of many patrons. Reprint....

  • Endymion

    Hyperion - 3

    It is 274 years after the Fall and the universe is in chaos. Raul Endymion, onetime shepherd and convicted murderer, is chosen as a pawn in a cosmic game whose outcome will determine the fate of humanity. Selected as a bodyguard to the next messiah, ...

  • The Rise of Endymion

    Hyperion - 4

    THE MAGNIFICENT CONCLUSION TO ONE OF THE GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION SAGAS OF OUR TIME The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has unde...

  • The Crook Factory

    At the height of World War Two, the famous writer Ernest Hemingway sought permission from the U.S. government to operate a spy ring out of his house in the Cuban countryside. This much is true... It is the summer of '42, and FBI agent Joe Luca...

  • Darwin's Blade

    A series of high-speed fatal car wrecks--accidents that seem as if they may have been staged--is leading Darwin Minor down a dangerous road. A reluctant expert on violent ways to die, he sifts clues from wreckage the way a brilliant coroner extracts ...

  • Hardcase

    A Joe Kurtz Novel - 1

    Award-winning author Dan Simmons takes the reader on a trip with Joe Kurtz through the cold, windy streets of Buffalo, New York, where one wrong move could mean a bellyful of lead... Once Joe Kurtz needed revenge--and revenge cost him eleven years...

  • A Winter Haunting

    Summer of Night - 2

    A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage -- and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where h...

  • Hard Freeze

    A Joe Kurtz Novel - 2

    Revenge has never been served so cold. Joe Kurtz, former investigator and convicted felon, is on parole. But the years he spent in Attica didn't make his old haunts any safer. Back on the streets of Buffalo, he's already marked by a local Mafia don....

  • Worlds Enough & Time: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction

    An extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantalizing the mind and touching the soul. Now he offers us a superb quintet of novellas -- five dazzling ...



  • Ilium

    The Trojan War rages at the foot of Olympos Mons on Mars--observed and influenced from on high by Zeus and his immortal family--and twenty-first-century professor Thomas Hockenberry is there to play a role in the insidious private wars of vengeful go...

  • Hard as Nails

    A Joe Kurtz Novel - 3

    Ex-PI Joe Kurtz's survival is on the line when an ambush leaves him badly wounded and his parole officer Peg O'Toole barely clinging to life. Their respective professions have ensured that neither suffers from a shortage of enemies so discovering whi...

  • Olympos

    Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative. But that was before twenty-first century scholar Thomas Hockenberry stirred...

  • The Terror

    Their captain's insane vision of a Northwest Passage has kept the crewmen of The Terror trapped in Arctic ice for two years without a thaw. But the real threat to their survival isn't the ever-shifting landscape of white, the provisions that have tur...

  • Muse of Fire

    In the distant future, a wandering acting troupe performs the plays of Shakespeare for a series of increasingly important alien species, with evidence that the fate of all humanity may rest on the quality of their work....

  • Drood

    On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtl...

  • Black Hills

    When Paha Sapa, a young Sioux warrior, counts coup on General George Armstrong Custer as Custer lies dying on the battlefield at the Little Bighorn, the legendary general's ghost enters him - and his voice will speak to him for the rest of his event-...

  • Flashback

    The United States is near total collapse. But 87% of the population doesn't care: they're addicted to flashback, a drug that allows its users to re-experience the best moments of their lives. After ex-detective Nick Bottom's wife died in a car accide...

  • The Guiding Nose of Ulfant Banderoz

    Jack Vance's stories of the Dying Earth are among the most indelible creations of 20th century fantasy. Set on a far future Earth moving toward extinction under a slowly dying sun, these baroque tales of wonder have exerted a profound influence on ge...

  • The Abominable

    A thrilling tale of high-altitude death and survival set on the snowy summits of Mount Everest, from the bestselling author of The Terror It's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the sh...



  • The Fifth Heart

    In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams--member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Presidents. Clover's...

  • This Year's Class Picture

    Ms. Geiss is the most dedicated fourth-grade teacher imaginable. She goes to extraordinary lengths to make sure her students are presented with every opportunity -- showing them slides from her summer vacations during Geography, reading to them from ...

  • Omega Canyon

    A thrilling tale of a scientist turned Nazi spy informing on America's nuclear war program. The location and mission of Omega Canyon were top secret. During World War II, it served as the most restricted area on the Los Alamos atomic-bomb research...

  • Blood Is Not Enough

    “An excellent collection” of vampire stories, from authors such as Harlan Ellison, Dan Simmons, Gahan Wilson, Tanith Lee, and Fritz Leiber (Publishers Weekly).   Renowned editor Ellen Datlow has gathered seventeen variations on vampirism ran...

  • Ilion

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    Jav?ban d?l a tr?jai h?bor? a Marson, az Olympus hegy l?b?n?l. A cs?csr?l Zeusz ?s halhatatlan csal?dja figyeli ?s alak?tja az esem?nyeket. Thomas Hockenberry, a 21. sz?zadi professzor, elobb kr?nik?sk?nt, majd egy fontos k?ldet?s v?grehajt?jak?nt bo...

Award-Winning Books by Dan Simmons

Carrion Comfort
1990 Bram Stoker Award -- Novel
1990 Locus Award -- Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel
Children of the Night
1993 Locus Award -- Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel
1995 Garden State Teen Book Award -- Fiction (Grades 9-12)
The Fall of Hyperion
1991 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
Fires of Eden
1995 Locus Award -- Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel
Hyperion
1990 Hugo Award -- Novel
1990 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
Ilium
2004 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
Prayers to Broken Stones
1992 Bram Stoker Award -- Collection
The Rise of Endymion
1998 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
Song of Kali
1986 World Fantasy Award -- Novel
Summer of Night
1992 Locus Award -- Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dan Simmons has published 34 books.

Dan Simmons does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Blood Is Not Enough, was published in July 2019.

The first book by Dan Simmons, Song of Kali, was published in January 1985.

Yes. Dan Simmons has 3 series.
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