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
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.
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.
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.