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
space silence cozy
Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.
ignorance routes absolutes
The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
past way rising
The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.
real reality imagination
His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.
expression once-upon-a-time brain
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another intelligence that it would be the result of a huge project ... a great mass of silicon and ancient transistors and chips and circuit boards ... a machine with lots of networking circuits, in other words, aping-if you will pardon the expression-the human brain in form and function. Of course, AIs did not evolve that way. They sort of slipped into existence when we humans were looking the other way.
war lessons may
Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.
ideas cubes gas
Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.
life blessing long
No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.
done ifs our-time
If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.
blow reality wind
The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.
life loss way
Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
flow violence needs
All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.
life retreat
Life doesn't retreat.
forever religion endymion
If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.