Top 3 Dan Simmons Books

There is a standard that is often adhered to by today's science fiction writers. Almost all of them are prolific authors, surely thanks to their fertile imagination, capable of generating new worlds on the plane of blank pages.

We have John Scalzi and Kim stanley robinson to certify it. Or, in more fantastic science fiction aspects to Patrick Rothfuss, Brandon Sanderson or the very George RR Martin.

However Dan simmons, master of masters thanks to his emblematic work "Hyperion" (a work in the most usual sense of the Science Fiction series, with sequels and prequels that delve into new complete and complex worlds), has also chosen in parallel to fertilize new spaces creative, redirecting at times to terror (natural drift from the fantastic), to historical fiction or to a black gender in which it is standing out as if it were there forever.

So currently one cannot accommodate waiting for the new Dan Simmons, because you never know the directions that his plots will take. And certainly, despite the disappointment of fans anchored in unique themes, variety is always something to be thankful for.

Top 3 Recommended Novels by Dan Simmons

Hyperion

I have always been fascinated by the ease of creating new worlds that are as exhaustive as they are accessible to us readers. The balance achieved by authors like Pratchett, Tolkien or now Simmons.

The writers of this type of mixture between epic science fiction and fantasy, with projections always from our world, end up dragging millions of fans who inhabit the new worlds. Simply wonderful.

In the world called Hyperion, beyond the Web of Man's Hegemony, awaits the Shrike, a surprising and fearsome creature revered as Lord of Pain by members of the Church of Final Atonement.

On the eve of Armageddon and against the backdrop of the possible war between the Hegemony, the Exter swarms and the artificial intelligences of the TechnoCore, seven pilgrims flock to Hyperion to resurrect an ancient religious rite.

All of them are bearers of impossible hopes and, also, of terrible secrets. A diplomat, a Catholic priest, a military man, a poet, a teacher, a detective and a navigator cross their destinies in their pilgrimage in search of the Shrike while they search the Tombs of Time, majestic and incomprehensible constructions that house a secret of the future.

The horror

In the XNUMXth century, the seas and oceans of the planet still conserved an old aura of mystery and large doses of adventure for all those who ventured to travel them for any purpose. Beyond the oceanographic cartographies that already outlined lands and seas, the old myths and the still limited communication and navigation techniques, transformed any expedition into an adventure.

This novel is based on what happened on the expedition of the Erebus and Terror boats that left London on May 18, 1945 and that after several months of navigation, once they entered the Arctic, led to the death of the 135 crew members. The sad objective facts were discovered some time later, but what happened in the day-to-day life of the tragedy will remain in a frozen limbo of shocking air currents.

And that, the most unknown intrahistory of the disaster, has been dealt with by Dan Simmons, who, with his prodigious imagination presents us with a thriller from the most basic instincts of survival, spiced up with perverse certainties that something else could have taken care of everyone those men who died at more than twenty degrees below zero.

Hope is the last thing a sea lion or risk-loving adventurer loses. Dan Simons introduces us to some men determined to get ahead in the face of a catastrophe. Only, as the provisions are disappearing and the cold continued to intensify in flesh and spirit, violence is occupying the souls of all those men.

The authority of the command is weakening and cannibalism appears as the only alternative. But not only men themselves consider eating the victims of their species, those who until recently were adventure companions in search of new routes to the northwest of the world. Something else stalks them like a disturbing bluish shadow, which moves through the cold breezes and ends up attacking like a practically invisible beast.

A dark summer

A novel already published in the early 90's but it's always nice to rediscover it in new improved editions. A novel reminiscent of Stephen King that made his characters get lost in towns as insane as "Despair."

Summer of 1960. In the small town of Elm Haven, Illinois, five twelve-year-old preteens spend their days under sunsets on bicycles, games and discoveries typical of a peaceful childhood in an idyllic place. However, after the disappearance of a classmate, their desire for adventure will lead them to discover much more than they expected: a parallel world in which reality and fantasy are barely distinguished.

The unexpected ringing of a strange European bell in the middle of the night will mark the end of quiet days. Now, from the depths of Old Central School, evil lurks. Unusual and chilling events begin to take over everyday life, spreading fear throughout the town: a dead soldier who is chasing them, giant worms under the ground, the animated body of a deceased professor and a series of demons that have awakened and that only Our five protagonists will be able to challenge, determined to put an end to the dark force that dominates the night...