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
talking survival may
It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.
american-author evolving gods life power race theme
I really appreciated his theme of life evolving from one race of gods to another, with one power having to give way to another, as Hyperion must.
avenue offers venue
This is a grassroots-level venue that offers an avenue for anglers that aren't necessarily on a professional level.
real reality imagination
His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.
support language nightmare
This is every writer's nightmare--the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us...
essence civilization ideas
Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." 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 spermatozoa attacking an ovum. It might be argued that the Siamese twin infants of word/idea are the only contribution the human species can, will, or should make to the raveling cosmos.
essence civilization ideas
Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." 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 spermatozoa attacking an ovum. It might be argued that the Siamese twin infants of word/idea are the only contribution the human species can, will, or should make to the raveling cosmos.