>it's real

fuck

>>25112421
FUCK!

RIP to one of the greats

GIVE STICKY NAOW

>>25112421
Not a sharp dresser

>>25112421
Rip. Hyperion is still one of the greats

Deserved sticky

His essay collection 'Writing Well' is still the best advice on writing fiction I've ever read. RIP.

>>25112942
You can only read them via Wayback Machine, for reasons unknown. Have fun: https://web.archive.org/web/20160430161023/http%3A//www.dansimmons.com/writing_welll/archive/writing_index.htm

>>25112942
>>25112948
Thank you

well earned sticky.
People talk about Hyperion, but his bravest book was Flashback.

just got done with mad men and damn, lane pryce was such a good character
perfect time to watch the terror again
RIP. i know this isnt the /tv/ board

>>25112421
Who

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>>25112421
Damn. His Ilium/Olympos series is leagues better than Hyperion. Shame no one's heard about it. I think I'll reread it this year, in his memory.

>>25113034
Some Zionist rat.

>>25113047
the zutt ran a train on your prophet

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Asking here since no one on /pol/ could anwer: What's the deal with the ending of Endymion?

Simp boy finds out the chick cucked him with his past self and she's gonna die in 2 years. But wouldn't the cycle just start again then? Once the 2 years are spent again, they would be at the same point, right?

Please be patient I'm retarded and time travel fuckery is gay and lame.

This gets a sticky? THIS??? This board is a fucking joke, its the /mu/ faggotry all over again.

Now he's Dead Simmons.

>>25112421
Never read him but does Dying at 77 from a stroke in a small mountain town make sense for his fate and books?

>>25112421
One of the greatest scifi authors of all time

>hated muslims
>warned muslim migratioon is an invasion
>literally has a short story of his future self coming back in time to warn of muslims taking over the world
>hated gays
>hated troons

Rest in peace great man

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>>25113118
>Legendary author gets a sticky
>tfw

>>25113118
fuck you illiterate inbreed, it's LITERALLY one of the best of all time

>sticky with 20 posts after 7 hours
Not even sffg cares. Why should we?

>>25112421
>(You) will never get to play with his neck gobbler

>>25113163
>>25113166
Go back to your containment thread. Better yet, go back to /tv/. This is not a genre fiction board.

>>25113181
kys leftist shit, all of you are mentally ill

Might give him a read now. The terror was always on my radar. How good is the book?

>genresloppa
lol
lmao

>>25112421
>glennbeck.jpg

>>25112421
One of the most interesting sci fi authors I've ever read. What a shame, Godspeed and thanks for all the good times.

>>25113196
You have to go back

RIP. The Hyperion Cantos are the greatest scifi novels.

>>25113158
>Gigantic philosemite
>hated Christianity
Come on.

>>25113040
Ilium is great, but Olympos is such a mess that I can't even recommend Ilium to my friends. The story in Olympos just kind of nonsensically evaporates in the 3rd act. It's a shame, since Ilium is absolutely great.

>>25112421
RIP

>>25113071
Yes, it's a retarded ending, because the endymion books are retarded.
He would keep living alone and she would go back in time to die.

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>>25112421
See you later alligator...

>>25112421
Carrion Comfort and Summer of Night are my favorites of his. RIP.

rip to a legend

All these posts are being made by the same person (me)
No one actually cares about Dan Simmons and that makes me sad

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People hate on Endymion for being a step down from Hyperion but I can't remember a book that sucked me in more before or since.

>>25112421
Song of kali is a great book! Fucking indians ! The vibe in kolkata is crazy! Very dark .

probably one of the highest profile obscure authors in sci fi.

maybe obscure is not the proper world. all modern sci fi authors are obscure.

F

I am not much of a reader, but every now and then, when on /v/ there is a thread about book you wish were adapted into videogames, I see Hyperion, on /tv/ as well.

>>25112421
who

damn this the lil nigga that wrote the terror? should i read that shit? i really loved the show

>>25112421
F

>>25112421
Rest in Peace

>>25112421
KFC sucks idk why u guys are crying over him

>>25112421
Is this the guy who wrote The DaVinci Code?

Literally who? Is he Richard Simmons's brother?

>>25113399
Hyperion stands alone, but the worlds open up in Endymion. I couldn't wait to get to the rafting and farcasting chapters. The battle with Nemes is so good.

The Fall of Hyperion is probably my all time favorite scifi novel, but Endymion was such rancid dogshit, I erased the whole author from my memory

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>>25113118
This is a imageboard for otakus and Hyperion (not a bad book per se, for what i remember is certainly full of Simmons' love for the medium) is my waifu Yuki Nagato's favorite novel (mine is the death of Ivan Ilych, btw).
You are completely wrong in your statement.
This sticky is a must

>a literally who receives a sticky
There wasn't even a sticky for McCarthy

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Do you think he lived long enough to see Israeli and US planes start pounding Iran last night? Would have given him one last smile.

>>25113800
>one of the most famous, influential american scifi authors of all time and the winner of over 40 literary awards
>literally who
You have to be over 6 months old to use this website

>>25113503
No that’s Dan brown

>>25113023
Hyperion was terrible aside from the first story (Priest). Poet chapter and his character as a whole is perhaps the most Reddit thing I've ever read.

>>25113158
>>25113163
GRRM of sci-fi, so of course /lit/ thinks he's great. This place is such a midwit shithole now.

>>25113800
Which is why the moderator's days are numbered like a character in a book who is given x number of pages but then dies or leaves town when it's clear they serve no purpose to the reader or writer...

>>25113181
You're such a faggot pseud, you're the kind of plague that killed this board, and the sickness of this world. Bet you are the same kind of cattle that read whatever others tell you to so you can larp "le sofisticated intellectual" while never cultivating a mental landscape of your own. You are a hollow excuse of a person, you have no volition, you have no identity, you have no value, and nobody gives a shit about fitting in more than you do. You're the shit on the sole of my boits, less than a cockroach. Kill yourself nigger, last reply you get, show some respect.

>>25113800
There was a sticky for Corncob, which you would know if you had any idea of what you're talking about in the first place, retard.

>>25114015
>Bet you are the same kind of cattle that read whatever others tell you to so you can larp "le sofisticated intellectual"
"Cattle" that just read the Western Canon are because they're told it's high literature are still infinitely better than retards like yourself that try "cultivating a mental landscape of [their] own" and end up reading midwit slop like GRR Martin and Simmons. People "cultivating a mental landscape of [their] own" instead of listening to their intellectual superiors is how we got the death of all high art.

>>25113071
I know you already admitted that you're retarded but holy shit this is not difficult to understand.
Foid travels to the future to cuck then-present Endymion with future Endymion, spends two years there before traveling back in time to continue her hippie movement and shagging cucked Endymion and die.
Ending is Endymion reaching that future point in time without time travel (he never travelled in time), and meeting what is then past-foid to him.
There is no cycle.

>>25112421
I just read about it, and came here to see if at least one of you fags would care. There's still hope.

Dude wrote a muscle mommy in Hyperion who sex a twink. Kek.

>>25114078
It really is the proto-reddit novel

>>25114015
>boits
boots.

>>25114033
GRRM is gonna get sticky too

F

The Terror and Carrion Comfort are his best works.

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MR HICKEY

This gets a sticky but the death of Shakespeare does not?

>>25112421
RIP

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>>25114218
>a dastardly gay as the villain
Love me faggot baddies

>>25113800
The sticky on McCarthy’s death is probably the single biggest /lit/ thread of all time.

>>25114249
Baron Harkonnen is a gay icon.

>>25113861
One last smile before going to Hell. Now that would be a good title.

>>25112421
Rest in peace man. Read a lot of your stuff.

my dad in shambles

I've never read his work, but F. My friends love it.

Spit on /pol/fags

>>25112421
RIP

>>25112421
Simmons street Silent Hill RIP

FUUUUUCK MEEE
RAY BRADBURY
THEGREATESTSCIFIWRITER
IN
HISTORY

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>>25113251
>You have to go back

>>25114033
The shit estrogen does to a nigger.

>>25113800
>>25114010
Retarded newfags who don’t remember the McCarthy sticky. You can go to the archives you morons.

Are the Hyperion sequels really that bad? I’ve never bother reading them.

>>25114033
>"Cattle" that just read the Western Canon are because they're told it's high literature are still infinitely better than retards like yourself
saaaaarrrrr

>>25114714
Why did you post a picture of yourself?

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>>25114811
>Why did you post a picture of yourself?

>>25114776
Fall of Hyperion is decent, but not as good as Hyperion. I'd recommend Hyperion to anyone, but fall only to people who like genre fiction.
The Endymion books are trash. Retcons, hippie bullshit magic, shitty worldbuilding, boring characters, simple travelogue plot

>>25113467
Read it.

I've never really been interested in reading anything by Dan Simmons despite hearing how good his books are, but fuck it, I just ordered a copy of Hyperion from Amazon. I've heard the latter two books in the series are pretty bad so do I have to read past book 2?

>>25114903
>do I have to read past book 2
No. Book 2 makes a satisfactory conclusion to the first book. The Endymion books are mostly separate.

Has somebody read a winter haunting? What the fuck was he thinking?

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>>25113040
noted

>>25112421
F

When has a genre fiction writer ever won the Nobel?

>>25115128
Barrack Hussein Obama won the Nobel Prize nine months after being elected president after being a senator for three years. He didn't win for his fiction but he did author some in the form of an autobiography.

>>25112421
Hyperion is a hellova ride
Rest in peace king

>>25115293
it's middling sci-fi slop

>>25112421
vaxxxxx status?

>>25115321
Goy'd.

So what exactly was the deal with this guy's unearthly infatuation with John Keats? Did he ever elaborate

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Hitler, hitler, hitler
Antisemitism its boon has sent
If I die and wither
I shall die content!

-AI Keats

>>25114719
Even troons read genre fiction.
This guy would be lucky enough to even attract them.

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Never finished Hyperion

>>25115422
Your ESL is showing, saar.

>>25115429
Oh so you really are a jeet. LOL how embarrassing 4 u.

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>>25115432
OK, jeet. Whatever you say.

>>25115310
Oh god not decentslop

No American cared about him until he went full fascist.

>>25115391
Simmons was an English teacher, wasn’t he? Ought to be some poets you love, to go down that path.

>>25115128
Bob Dylan

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>>25113399
Reading atm having read the first two last year, my issues so far are:
>Raul is a wondering gypsy yet is apparently incredibly eloquent and well educated
>In a mere 250 years the pax has taken over the old Hegemony without farcasters
>The city of Endymion is somehow incredibly well built with a once prestigious university on it, which wasn't mentioned in the prior books and the capital of Keats basically being mostly shanty and the only 'beautiful' city being the shortlived city of poets.
>A.Bettik and Raul are both incredibly unassuming and along for the ride, being far too complient

>>25112948
>Nor is the Da Vinci Code narrative style of breathless rushing to and fro without allowing time for one’s characters to sleep, eat, or go to the bathroom what I mean by narrative power. If there’s a phrase for that, it might be “bestselleroid attention deficit disordered hyperactivity.”

>>25115550
Yeah the story is full of dumb shit and it gets even worse in Rise of Endymion with the Temple of Hanging Air arc that goes on forever. It's mostly just a fun adventure.
.

>>25113040
it's great, especially so if you like the Trojan War.

>>25113140
Self-insert for Abominable lol

>>25113421
I think the word you're looking for is "niche."