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Dan Simmons

(b.1948)

Since his first published short story won the Rod Serling Memorial Award in the 1982 Twilight Zone Magazine Short Fiction contest, Dan Simmons has won some of the top awards in science fiction, horror, fantasy, and thriller genres, as well as honors for his mainstream fiction. He lives along the Front Range of Colorado, where he is currently at work on a new Joe Kurtz novel.

Awards: Stoker (1994), WFA (1993), Sturgeon (1993), BSFA (1991) see all

Genres: Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Fantasy

Series

Hyperion
   1. Hyperion (1989)
   2. The Fall of Hyperion (1990)
   3. Endymion (1996)
   4. The Rise of Endymion (1997)

Seasons of Horror
   1. Summer of Night (1991)
   2. Children of the Night (1992)
   3. Fires of Eden (1994)
   4. A Winter Haunting (2002)

Joe Kurtz
   1. Hardcase (2001)
   2. Hard Freeze (2002)
   3. Hard as Nails (2003)

Ilium
1. Ilium (2003)
2. Olympos (2005)

Novels

   Song of Kali (1985)
   Carrion Comfort (1989)
   Phases of Gravity (1989)
   The Hollow Man (1992)
   The Crook Factory (1999)
   Darwin's Blade (2000)
   The Terror (2007)
   Muse of Fire (2008)
   Drood (2009)
   Black Hills (2010)
   Flashback (2011)
   The Abominable (2013)
   The Fifth Heart (2015)

Collections

   Prayers to Broken Stones (1990)
   Summer Sketches (1992)
   LoveDeath (1993)
   Worlds Enough and Time (2002)

Novellas and Short Stories

   Banished Dreams (1990)
   Entropy's Bed at Midnight (1990)
   This Year's Class Picture (1992)
   The Guiding Nose of Ulfant Banderoz (2013)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Dan Simmons

Flight or Fright (2018)
edited by
Stephen King and Bev Vincent

Bloodsuckers (2010)
(Vampire Archives, book 1)
edited by
Otto Penzler

Darkness (2010)
Two Decades of Modern Horror
edited by
Ellen Datlow

More books

Awards

	2004 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel : Ilium
	2000 Locus Award for Best Novella : Orphans of the Helix
	1998 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel : The Rise of Endymion
	1994 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novelette : Death in Bangkok
	1993 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story : This Year's Class Picture
	1993 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award : This Year's Class Picture
	1992 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction : This Year's Class Picture
	1991 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel : The Fall of Hyperion
	1991 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection : Prayers to Broken Stones
	1991 BSFA Award for Best Novel : The Fall of Hyperion
	1990 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel : Hyperion
	1990 Hugo Award for Best Novel : Hyperion
	1990 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel : Carrion Comfort
	1989 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel : Carrion Comfort
	1986 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel : Song of Kali

Award nominations

	2010 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Drood
	2008 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Terror
	2008 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Muse of Fire
	2008 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Terror
	2007 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel (nominee) : The Terror
	2006 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Olympos
	2004 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Ilium
	2003 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : A Winter Haunting
	2003 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Worlds Enough and Time: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction
	1998 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Rise of Endymion
	1997 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Endymion
	1996 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Looking for Kelly Dahl
	1994 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Death in Bangkok
	1994 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Flashback
	1994 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : LoveDeath
	1993 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Hollow Man
	1993 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (nominee) : LoveDeath
	1993 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (nominee) : Flashback [short story]
	1992 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel (nominee) : Children of the Night
	1992 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee) : Hyperion
	1991 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Prayers to Broken Stones
	1991 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Prayers to Broken Stones
	1991 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Fall of Hyperion
	1991 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel (nominee) : Summer of Night
	1991 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Entropy's Bed at Midnight [short story]
	1990 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Carrion Comfort
	1990 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Fall of Hyperion
	1990 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Phases of Gravity
	1990 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (nominee) : Prayers to Broken Stones
	1990 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (nominee) : Entropy's Bed at Midnight
	1990 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Hyperion
	1989 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Metastasis
	1986 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Song of Kali

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