![]() ![]() ![]() Now Dan Simmons has come through again, returning from his intellectual and corporeal wanderings to his science-fictional roots with the novel Ilium. His output is so prodigious one imagines him married to his word processor a la Asimov yet unlike Asimov he finds time to raise children and travel the world. One of my all-time favorite short stories called “Eyes I Dare Not Meet In Dreams” which he later expanded into the novel The Hollow Man. In fact, Simmons' novel called The Crook Factory features Hemingway as a character. His salt and pepper beard and prophetic squint makes you think of Hemingway had that salty old dog stayed home from Africa and become a professor of English. And if that isn't intimidation enough, he's a handsome devil too. Even after a career that spans 19 years, 23 novels and collections, and about a zillion short stories and articles, his gift for invention is unpredictable, seemingly superhuman and limitless. ( Jump down to see more reviews of this author's novels )ĭan Simmons is a writer who seems unable to limit himself to a particular niche or genre. ![]()
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