| Dan
Simmons's first published story, "The River Styx
Runs Upstream," won the Rod Serling Memorial Award in
1982. His first novel, SONG OF KALI, won the 1986 World Fantasy
Award (the only first-novel to do so up to that time.) His
next novel, 1989's CARRION COMFORT, won the Bram Stoker Award
from the Horror Writers of America. His first science fiction
novel, the 1989 HYPERION, won the Hugo Award.
Since then his work has included contemporary literary fiction
(Phases OF GRAVITY, THE HOLLOW MAN, ENTROPY'S BED AT MIDNIGHT),
psychological suspense and horror (SUMMER OF NIGHT, CHILDREN
OF THE NIGHT, FIRES OF EDEN, A WINTER HAUNTING), three collections
of shorter fiction (PRAYERS TO BROKEN STONES, LOVEDEATH, WORLDS
ENOUGH & TIME), three hardboiled noir novels in the ongoing
"Joe Kurtz" series (HARDCASE, HARD FREEZE, and HARD
AS NAILS), a screenplay adaptation of "Children of the
Night," several film treatments, two produced TV scripts,
and completion of his four-volume science-fiction HYPERION
CANTOS epic (HYPERION, THE FALL OF HYPERION, ENDYMION, AND
THE RISE OF ENDYMION),about which The New York Times wrote
--"An exemplary specimen of an all-too-rare subgenre:
literate space opera, replete with believable characters facing
hard moral choices" and of which The Denver Post said
-- "Simmons' own genius transforms space opera into a
new kind of poetry." |
 Simmons's
1999 literary-mystery-espionage novel THE CROOK FACTORY, about
the spy ring run by Ernest Hemingway in Cuba in 1942, was
awarded the 2000 Colorado Book Award for Best Novel. His 2002
horror novel, A WINTER HAUNTING, won the 2003 Colorado Book
Award for Best Genre Novel. In 2001, Dan did an original film
treatment – "The End of Gravity" for European
producer/director Andrei Ujica. The treatment is available
in novella form in Dan's 2002 collection WORLDS ENOUGH &
TIME: FIVE TALES OF SPECULATIVE FICTION, published by Harper
Collins Eos.
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| In July of 2003,
Harper Collins Eos published ILIUM, an epic SF novel based
in part on Homer's ILIAD. ILIUM was on the extended New York
Times bestseller lists, the LOCUS bestseller lists, and on
several notable-books-of-2003 lists, including Amazon.com’s
Top 50 Editor’s Picks for the year. The tale begun in
ILIUM is scheduled to be concluded in OLYMPOS, to be published
by Harper Collins in the spring of 2005.
In January 2004, Digital Domain, one of the world’s
largest special effects studios, entered into a project to
produce “Ilium- Olympos”
as a major motion picture with Simmons to write the treatment.
Also published late in 2003 was HARD AS NAILS, the third
book in the "Joe Kurtz" series. After completing
OLYMPOS in 2004, Simmons is currently contracted to write
a movie treatment and original screenplay based on his two
novels SUMMER OF NIGHT and A WINTER HAUNTING. He will also
be involved in the ongoing “Hyperion” movie project
in the role of producer.
Locus magazine says, "Challenges appear to be what
Dan Simmons is all about." Science Fiction Chronicle
says, "Simmons doesn't just promise; he delivers."
Dan in Bangkok, 1992
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