Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons ( born April 4, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois, USA) is an American writer.
Life
Dan Simmons was born on April 4, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois. After he graduated from college in 1970, he worked for 17 years as a primary school teacher. Since writing is his main occupation. Already as a student he fell to its literary talent. However, the first story he published in 1982 and therefore won a literary prize. Since then, awards for his works of the rule.
Genres & Style
Dan Simmons is a prolific author who is in several genres at home. He wrote horror novels, psychological thriller and action as well as science-fiction stories. Within his works he crosses the genre boundaries also. In Darwin 's Blade about the hero is simultaneously a physicist, specializing in the reconstruction of traffic accidents, and, as a sniper trained Vietnam veteran. Consequently, the book provides informative insights into the dangers of mobile society. The machinations of organized insurance fraudsters come in the explosive, action-packed story as much a language, as numerous, extravagant described firefights.
Action guide or the characterization of the main characters staged Simmons often associations with scenes and characters well-known movies. This is also true for Hardcase, the " opener" a highly acclaimed series about the private investigator Joe Kurtz. In Cold Blood he directed towards the murderer of his secretary and sat for eleven years in the penitentiary. Simmons tries with the crime series, the moral limits of the classic detective novel to expand, but can not offer in this field, set by authors such as Raymond Chandler, highlights.
With the Hyperion / Endymion - Cycle, however, a four-volume mix of space opera and fantasy, that Simmons new standards. Appeared in 2004 with the ilium, the first part of a comparable Opus, which was continued with Olympos 2005. At a gambling on multiple planets, imaginative science fiction story, the author provides the reader here is a knowledgeable analysis of Homer's Iliad and Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. The selective use of characters from William Shakespeare's The Tempest makes this modern saga is not really bad.
Works
Audiobooks (selection)
- 2011: Flashback, Random House Audio, ISBN 978-3-8371-1187-3, unabridged, read by Martin Bross, 1222 Min
Films
In February 2013, the U.S. pay- TV channel AMC presented a series project for 2014, the film adaptation of Simmons 's novel of terror from the year 2007, which revolves around the lost Franklin expedition. In his novel Simmons wove the historical facts with other known side effects of the shipwreck and horror elements. In a press release from AMC it is, they wanted to " focus on the horror of the substance ." Produces the series of AMC itself, Television 360 and Scott Free. David Kajganich was obliged to write the script for the pilot episode.