Dan Simmons

'I am in awe of Dan Simmons' STEPHEN KINGPaha Sapa, 'Black Hills', is an American Indian shaman who, as a young boy at the Battle of Little Bighorn, believes that he has taken the ghost of the dying General Custer into his body.Sixty years later, while working as a dynamiter on Mount Rushmore, Paha Sapa plots to blow up the monument. Meanwhile, Custer finds himself trapped in a strange, dark place and begins to write sensuous, heartbreaking missives to his beloved wife.Thus begins an intricate, visionary story that sweeps across some of the most tumultuous and violent periods of American history, from the old West to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and into our own time and beyond.Readers are enthralled by Black Hills'Absolutely incredible' *****'Exciting and enthralling' *****'Totally immersive' *****'Wonderful!' *****

A classic horror story from the bestselling author of The Terror that reinvents the traditional vampire story to become something even darker . . .

On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens -- at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world -- hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research . . . or something more terrifying? Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens's life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens's friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), Drood explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author's last years and may provide the key to Dickens's final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, Drood is Dan Simmons at his powerful best.

Embraced by giants such as Stephen King and Dean R. Koontz, Dan Simmons's Carrion Comfort was originally published by Warner Books in 1989, and remains a classic of dark fantasy and horror. "One of the three greatest horror novels of the 20th century. Simple as that." --Stephen KingTHE PAST... Caught behind the lines of Hitler's Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazi's themselves... THE PRESENT... Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret society of beings who may often exist behind the world's most horrible and violent events. Killing from a distance, and by darkly manipulative proxy, they are people with the psychic ability to 'use' humans: read their minds, subjugate them to their wills, experience through their senses, feed off their emotions, force them to acts of unspeakable aggression. Each year, three of the most powerful of this hidden order meet to discuss their ongoing campaign of induced bloodshed and deliberate destruction. But this reunion, something will go terribly wrong. Saul's quest is about to reach its elusive object, drawing hunter and hunted alike into a struggle that will plumb the depths of mankind's attraction to violence, and determine the future of the world itself... "Epic in scale and scope but intimately disturbing, Carrion Comfort spans the ages to rewrite history and tug at the very fabric of reality. A nightmarish chronicle of predator and prey that will shatter your world view forever. A true classic." --Guillermo del Toro

'I am in awe of Dan Simmons' Stephen KingThis story shall be about my friend (as at least about the man who was once my friend) Charles Dickens and about the accident that took away his peace of mind, his health, and, some might whisper, his sanity...In 1865 Charles Dickens, the world's most famous writer, narrowly escapes death in the Staplehurst Rail Disaster. He will never be the same again. A public hero for rescuing survivors, he slowly descends into madness as he hunts the individual he believes to be responsible for the carnage: a spectral figure known only as Drood.His best friend, Wilkie Collins, is enlisted for the pursuit. Together they venture into Undertown, the shadowy, lawless web of crypts and catacombs beneath London. Here Drood is rumoured to hold sway over a legion of brainwashed followers. But as Wilkie spirals ever further into opium addiction and jealousy of the more successful novelist, he must face a terrifying possibility: is Charles Dickens really capable of murder?Readers are loving Drood'Beautifully written, fiction heaven!' *****'One of my favourite reads ever' *****'A masterpiece' *****'Epic adventure' *****'Surprising - I enjoyed every page' *****

England im Jahr 1845: Unter dem Kommando von Sir John Franklin brechen die modernsten Schiffe ihrer Zeit - die "Terror" und die "Erebus" - auf, um die legendäre Nord-West-Passage zu finden: den Weg durch das ewige Eis der Arktis in den Pazifik. 130 Männer nehmen an der Expedition teil. Keiner von ihnen wird je zurückkehren. Dies ist ihre Geschichte.

A Terror Eight title: dark reads for hot summer nights!

"Dan Simmons writes with the salty grace and precision of Patrick O'Brian. But in piling supernatural nightmare upon historical nightmare, layering mystery upon mystery, he has produced a turbocharged vision of popular doom." -Men's JournalGreeted with excited critical praise, this extraordinary novel-inspired by the true story of two ice ships that disappeared in the Arctic Circle during an 1845 expedition-swells with the heart-stopping suspense and heroic adventure that have won Dan Simmons praise as "a writer who not only makes big promises but keeps them" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). THE TERROR chills readers to the core."Brutal, relentless, yet oddly uplifting, THE TERROR is a masterfully chilling work." -Entertainment Weekly"In the hands of a lesser writer than Dan Simmons, THE TERROR might well have dissolved into a series of frigid days and three-dog nights. But Simmons is too good a writer to ignore the real gold in his story-its beleaguered cast." -Bookpage"Guaranteed to have readers pulling their covers up to their noses, THE TERROR will make for a blood-freezing, bedtime read this winter-and any season thereafter." -Pages

V 1845 godu ekspeditsija pod komandovaniem opytnogo poljarnogo issledovatelja sera Dzhona Franklina otpravljaetsja na sudakh "Terror" i "Erebus" k severnomu poberezhju Kanady na poisk Severo-Zapadnogo prokhoda iz Atlanticheskogo okeana v Tikhij - i bessledno ischezaet. Poiski ee zatjanulis na neskolko desjatiletij, svedenija o ee sudbe sobiralis bukvalno po krupitsam, i do sikh por kartina proisshedshego pestrit belymi pjatnami, khotja osenju 2014 goda grjanula sensatsija: posle bolee chem polutora vekov poiskov "Erebus" byl nakonets obnaruzhen, i uchenye uzhe pristupili k izucheniju ostankov korablja, idealno sokhranivshikhsja v poljarnykh vodakh; nu a dva goda spustja, osenju 2016-go, pri pomoschi distantsionno upravljaemoj mini-submariny byl najden i "Terror". No esche za neskolko let do etogo porazitelnogo otkrytija Den Simmons, znamenityj avtor "Giperiona" i "Endimiona", "Ilio-na" i "Olimpa", "Pesni Kali" i "Temnoj igry smerti", predlozhil svoju versiju sobytij: glavnuju ugrozu dlja ekspeditsii predstavljali ne sokrushitelnye objatija lda, ne stuzha s vjugoj i ne isporchennye konservy - a nevedomoe ispolinskoe chudovische, budto sotkannoe iz snega i poljarnogo mraka.Vesnoj 2018 goda na teleekrany vykhodit 10-serijnaja ekranizatsija "Terrora", snjataja kompaniej Ridli Skotta Scott Free Productions. Postanovschikom vystupil Edvard Berger, v rabote nad stsenariem uchastvoval sam Simmons, glavnye roli ispolnili Dzhared Kharris, Kiaran Khajnds, Tobajas Menzis, Pol Redi. Na 2019 god uzhe zajavlen i vtoroj sezon.

V 1845 godu ekspeditsija pod komandovaniem opytnogo poljarnogo issledovatelja sera Dzhona Franklina otpravljaetsja na sudakh "Terror" i "Erebus" k severnomu poberezhju Kanady na poisk Severo-Zapadnogo prokhoda iz Atlanticheskogo okeana v Tikhij - i bessledno ischezaet. Poiski ee zatjanulis na neskolko desjatiletij, svedenija o ee sudbe sobiralis bukvalno po krupitsam, i do sikh por kartina proisshedshego pestrit belymi pjatnami - khotja osenju 2014 goda grjanula sensatsija: posle bolee chem polutora vekov poiskov "Erebus" byl nakonets obnaruzhen, i uchenye uzhe gotovjatsja pristupit k izucheniju ostankov korablja, idealno sokhranivshikhsja v poljarnykh vodakh. No esche za neskolko let do etogo porazitelnogo otkrytija Den Simmons, znamenityj avtor "Giperiona" i "Endimiona", "Iliona" i "Olimpa", "Pesni Kali" i "Temnoj igry smerti", predlozhil svoju versiju sobytij: glavnuju ugrozu dlja ekspeditsii sostavljali ne sokrushitelnye objatija lda, ne stuzha s vjugoj i ne isporchennye konservy - a nevedomoe ispolinskoe chudovische, budto...

The conclusion to the groundbreaking Hyperion Cantos, from the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Terror, which is now a chilling TV show.

Part three of the groundbreaking Hyperion Cantos, from the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Terror, which is now a chilling TV show.

The sequel to the bestselling and acclaimed ILIUM. Together these books are the SF event of the decade.

A companion to Ilium finds the briefly allied Achilles and Hector laying siege to the home of the gods, inadvertently triggering a massive conflict between humanity and such powerful beings as Setebos, Prospero, and Caliban. Reprint.

The Trojan War rages at the foot of Olympos Mons on Mars -- observed and influenced from on high by Zeus and his immortal family -- and twenty-first-century professor Thomas Hockenberry is there to play a role in the insidious private wars of vengeful gods and goddesses. On Earth, a small band of the few remaining humans pursues a lost past and devastating truth -- as four sentient machines depart from Jovian space to investigate, perhaps terminate, the potentially catastrophic emissions emanating from a mountaintop miles above the terraformed surface of the Red Planet.

The epic Hyperion duo - credited with reinventing SF in the 1990s - together in one volume for the first time.

A compelling melding of ancient Greek mythology and space opera from one of SF's masters.

A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage -- and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town -- the one-time residence of a strange and brilliant friend who lost his young life in a grisly "accident" back in the terrible summer of 1960 -- is only the latest in his long succession of recent mistakes. Because Dale is not alone here. He has been followed to this house of shadows by private demons who are now twisting his reality into horrifying new forms. And a thick, blanketing early snow is starting to fall ...

A new selection of speculative fiction by the Hugo Award-winning author of Hyperion includes five intriguing novellas, including Orphans of the Helix, set in the Hyperion universe, as well as Looking for Kelly Dahl, The Ninth of Av, On K2 with Kanakaredes, and The End of Gravity. Original.

The magnificent conclusion to one of the greatest science fiction sagas of our time The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples. But first they must embark on a final spectacular mission to discover the underlying meaning of the universe itself. They have been followed on their journey by the mysterious Shrike--monster, angel, killing machine--who is about to reveal the long-held secret of its origin and purpose. And on the planet of Hyperion, where the story first began, the final revelation will be delivered--an apocalyptic message that unlocks the secrets of existence and the fate of humankind in the galaxy.