About Dan Simmons: Dan Simmons is an American science fiction and horror writer and author of the Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, the Hyperion Cantos, and the Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle.
It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
It was as if they had climbed the last hill in creation.
To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow.
As Ummon and the other Masters teach, it explains why the giraffe evolved a long neck but never why the other animals did not. It explains why humankind evolved to intelligence, but not why the tree near the front gate refused to.
Who are you, Hockenberry, to thwart Fate and defy the Will of the Gods? I am me, Thomas Hockenberry. I am fed up with these power-addled thugs who call themselves gods.
Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatoza attacking an ovum. It might be argued that the Siamese-twin inf...
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.
I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
