![]() ![]() Olympos is even dedicated to Harold Bloom-presumably inspired by the Yale scholar’s literary criticism and not his bad fantasy novel, The Flight to Lucifer. ![]() For instance, Hyperion and its three sequels ( The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, and The Rise of Endymion) weave Keats and his poetry into their imagined future, while Ilium (2003) and its sequel Olympos (2005) play out Homer’s Iliad on Mars with the aid of nanotechnology, and depict cybernetic organisms that debate the merits of Proust as they explore the icy seas of alien planets. His six major sci-fi novels, beginning with the 1989 Hyperion (which won the Hugo Award), treat the classic sci-fi theme of the relationship between technology and humanity, and they also feature a more distinctive concern with the nature of literary genius. Not all of them are science fiction-he works in other popular genres too-but most are bestsellers, and many have won awards. ![]() Science fiction writer Dan Simmons is the author of more than two dozen novels. ![]()
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