| From the multiple
award-winning author of the Hyperion Cantos –
one of the most acclaimed and popular series in contemporary
science fiction – comes ILIUM, a huge and powerful epic
of high-tech gods, human heroes, total war, and the extraordinary
transcendence of ordinary beings.
From the towering heights of Olympos Mons on Mars, the mighty
Zeus and his immortal family of gods, goddesses, and demigods
look down upon a momentous battle, observing – and often
influencing-the legendary exploits of Paris, Achilles, Hector,
Odysseus, and the clashing armies of Greece and Troy.
Thomas Hockenberry, former twenty-first-century professor
and Iliad scholar, watches as well. It is Hockenberry’s
duty to observe and report on the Trojan War’s progress...
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in Western New York, there's a remote mountaintop in
the moonlight, its dark forests and moon-dappled meadows
populated only by corpses. If ex-PI Joe Kurtz doesn't
unravel the secret of that place in five days, he'll
be one of them.
Everyone seems to want a piece of Kurtz these days and
most succeed in getting one. Unknown assailants gun
down Kurtz and his female parole officer, giving Kurtz
the headache of a lifetime but putting pretty Peg O'Toole
on life support. Working his own case through a haze
of concussion migraine, Kurtz has to deal with Toma
Gonzaga, the gay don who owes Kurtz a blood debt, and
Angelina Farino Ferrara, the female don who is after
Kurtz's body—or maybe just his head.
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Published by St. Martin's Press Minotaur
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In his first new collection since 1993's
LOVEDEATH, Dan Simmons offers us five long stories
- two of them new to American readers - that reaffirm
his status as a visionary storyteller and master of
narrative prose.
 In
"Looking for Kelly Dahl," two lost souls
- an alcoholic ex-teacher and his former student -
stalk each other across the haunted, mutable landscape
of the Colorado Rockies.
In "Orphans of the Helix,"
a brilliantly realized coda to the Hyperion saga,
a band of interstellar pilgrims make an unexpected
detour, and find themselves enmeshed in an ongoing
- and unwitting -- conflict between two alien cultures.
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Published by HarperCollins EOS
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With darkness closing in on him, Dale decides to return
to his boyhood home in
Illinois. Drawn by a recurring nightmare that has plagued
him since his youth
- and a troubling certainty that something is waiting
for him there - he
hopes to exorcise his demons.
In the last hours of Halloween, he reaches the outskirts
of the dying town of
Elm Haven. There, he moves into the abandoned farmhouse
that was once the
home of his closest boyhood friend, the strange and
brilliant Duane McBride, who
lost his young life in a grisly "accident"
back in the terrible summer of
1960. Hoping to find peace in isolation, he settles
in for the long, harsh
winter.
"One of the scariest and most unnerving ghost
stories to come along in quite some time."
-- St. Louis Post Dispatch
"A cracking good read . . . surely the first psychological/horror
masterpiece of the 21st Century."
-- Denver Post
Published by William Morrow & Co
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"In HARD FREEZE, Simmons slaps the traditional
crime novel around and makes it like it. You won't want
to miss this one." -- Joe R. Lansdale, author of
The Bottoms
"Hannibal Lecter meets the Godfather -- violent,
fast-paced, with a high body count, and plenty of sanguinary
and pyrotechnic detail, this high-octane thriller should
please both hard-boiled addicts and Simmons devotees
-- it's Simmons at his hard-driving best."
Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Simmons' novel
uncoils into a deliciously brutal chess game between
a chameleon serial killer and ex-con PI Kurtz . . .
[Simmons] writes action scenes that'll leave your hands
clammy on the page." -- Booklist
"A bristling climax . . . Kurtz makes a riveting
protagonist for the noir-is-beautiful crowd."
-- Kirkus Review (starred review)
"Readers looking for two-fisted, take-no-prisoners
action should pick up a copy."
--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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"There's no letdown from explosive start to hell-for-leather
finish in this hard-as-nails detective story. Comparison
with Richard Stark's amoral badguy Parker or Andrew
Vachss's Burke are inevitable, but Kurtz is more Parker
than Burke: there is no sentimentality or excess prose
here, just unceasing action with a ragged edge…An
exceptional tale of nonstop violence and double cross…Enthusiastically
recommended."
--Library Journal
"[A] dark...and cinematic story set among the
surly and largely unloved denizens of Buffalo, N.Y."
--Chicago Tribune
"Readers who figure hard-boiled fiction was a
tapped-out river will find a leviathon tugging on the
line when they sink their hooks in Hardcase."
--Denver Post
"[Simmons] handles the carnage here as confidently
as if he'd teethed on a .45."
--Kirkus Reviews
Publisher:St. Martin's Press Minotaur
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"Very tough, with a high body count...Simmons
writes better than most, and his ex-PI, Joe Kurtz, who
tries to hold onto a semblance of ethics while working
for a semi-retired Mafia don, is an interesting character...There
are some nifty Chandleresque twists and some nicely
done upstate New York scene layering."
--Boston Globe
"Kurtz is probably the toughest, darkest 'hero'
in crime fiction since Parker"
--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Within the first five pages of HARDCASE, you
know it's going to live up to its title...If you're
after a hard-core, full-tilt rocket ride, you'll find
it in HARDCASE."
--Rocky Mountain News
"[Simmons'] narrative is all sinew and bloody
gristle... Hard to beat for a pulp-fiction beach-read."
--Publisher's Weekly
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