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
grease meat foam
In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.
knows
You have to live to really know things, my love
pain knowing fullness
There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.
pain fall men
Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level ... that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference.
passion brain
Mobs have passions, not brains.
harder hard dies
Its hard to die. Harder to live
data water dolphins
Context is to data what water is to a dolphin
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.
mobility doe twins
Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion
faith sea law
I now understand the need for faith—pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith—as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.
self way waste
A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
stupidity paid
Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.
powerful names voice
The powerful have received their share of the world's attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil. The victim's remain the faceless masses. Numbers. Mass graves. These monsters have fertilized our century with the mass graves of their victims and it is time that the powerless had names and faces -- and voices.
space boundaries i-loved-you
I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.