Ars TechnicaFeb 27
Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77
I went into Hyperion blind, decades ago, knowing almost nothing about it. I was never the same.
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@arstechnica Something reminded me of the Hyperion books a bit ago and I was thinking that I should read them again...
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Show threadAlexa FontanillaFeb 28

@crenquis
#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
Dan Simmons (American fiction writer), the author of more than three dozen books, including the famed Hyperion Cantos, has died from a stroke. He was 77.

Simmons, who worked in elementary education before becoming an author in the 1980s, produced a broad portfolio of writing that spanned several genres, including horror fiction, historical fiction, and science fiction. Often, his books included elements of all of these.

Show threadAlexa FontanillaFeb 28

@crenquis
This obituary will focus on what is generally considered his greatest work, and what I believe is possibly the greatest science fiction novel of all time, Hyperion.

Published in 1989, Hyperion is set in a far-flung future in which human settlement spans hundreds of planets. The novel feels both familiar, in that its structure follows Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and utterly unfamiliar in its strange, far-flung setting.

RIP, Dan...