KlankyHyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77
BallShapedManWell shit. I wish the best for his loved ones. 77 is too young for sure.
ORbituaryIs it? 77 feels just right to me for the end. Not too old to be decrepit, not young enough to regret it.
Depends on how good ones health and savings are I guess
gravitas_deficiencyNoooooooo he was such a good author :(
I loved especially Hyperion, but I said my final goodbye the day I opened Flashback… what an awful piece of rear end production that was.
The Hyperion series was awesome, original, well-thought out, spiced with a background of Enoch the Prophet, flying space trees … and I’ll cherish it forever.
Flashback not so much, what a hateful piece of right wing trash that was. And I’m not necessarily against a solid story that makes me think or even just learn to appreciate other’s viewpoints, but this was more like something Ben Shapiro would write. “leftie bad hur durr”, you probably know what I mean. On top of that, it was shattered, incoherent and relied insanely on Deus Ex Machina constructions throughout.
I never understood and I never ever will I. Sad.
I never understood and I never ever will I.
Oh, I understand it. Simmons was too eager to tell us why he didn’t like “certain people.”
Oh definitely. I just never understood how this could be the same author.
SpiceDealerWithout Dan Simmons and Hyperion, sci-fi literature would’ve been still been regarded as disposable paperbacks. Simmons did away with the trappings of early pulp sci-fi that held a shadow over the genre for many decades. Instead, Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion took the shape of the Western Canon and could be discussed as serious literature. Without spoiling too much, I remember reading the story of Sol Weintraub and his daughter and almost being brought to tears; something that no other book, regardless of genre, has done.
Rest well, scribe. Asimov, Heinland, Clarke, Herbert and, of course, Keats. You’ll be in good company
Without Dan Simmons and Hyperion, sci-fi literature would’ve been still been regarded as disposable paperbacks. Simmons did away with the trappings of early pulp sci-fi that held a shadow over the genre for many decades. Instead, Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion took the shape of the Western Canon and could be discussed as serious literature.
Hyperion was pretty good, but the 70s New Wave of science fiction had already done that: Ursula K. Le Guin, J. G. Ballard, Samuel Delany, etc. They deserve their credit.
Hadn’t Bradbury already been doing a lot of that like 2 decades before? I guess it mentions him as a predecessor in that article, but if the movement is distinguished by “an emphasis on the psychological and social sciences as opposed to the physical sciences”, that sounds like Bradbury to a T.
What a crazy coincidence that my newly formed book club chose this as our inaugural choice and then, literally just yesterday, finished Fall of Hyperion.
I appreciate you Dan Simmons. I’m sorry people no longer get to experience your imagination.
SpaceCowboyI’m actually reading the first book right now… So I first saw the image which is the cover of the book I’m reading and thought “heyyyy!” then read the headline… oof.