Lovedeath — Dan Simmons

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 must choose the right woman or watch his people die.... A federal agent haunted by his failure to prevent a presidential assassination uncovers a dark secret that only a deviously potent mind drug can reveal .... From the trenches of World War I, a celebrated soldier-poet chronicles the terrors of this world and the transports of the next....

Explore the exquisite conjunction of love and death. Experience human sexuality at its most unbridled, startling pitch, and savor a love that flirts recklessly with its own extinction. Enter a world that hovers--sometimes terrifyingly, often tantalizingly--dust beyond the familiar. This is the world of acclaimed author Dan Simmons. Now, in the tradition of Stephen King's Different Seasons and Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, he presents his most ambitious work ever. Here is a collection of five novellas that confirms Dan Simmons as the unquestionable master of his craft--and will keep you awake and reading all night.