O terrible wife of Siva / Your tongue is drinking the blood, / O dark Mother! O unclad Mother.' It is remarkable that prior to writing this first novel, Dan Simmons had spent only two and a half days in Calcutta, a city 'too wicked to...

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 ...

ALA Reading List Award for History, Short ListA thrilling tale of high-altitude death and survival set on the snowy summits of Mount Everest, from the bestselling author of The TerrorIt's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highes...

"Simmons writes like a hot-rodding angel." –Stephen King  An evil legacy comes to life in this classic and ultimately human novel about believable vampires, featuring a brand-new introduction by Dan Simmons.  Children o...

"A literary thriller like no other...A hard-charging, edge-of-the-seat tale." -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Darwin Minor travels a dangerous road. A Vietnam veteran turned reluctant expert on interpreting the wreckage of fatal...

Dale Stewart, the protagonist in Simmons's 1991 horror novel SUMMER OF NIGHT, returns. Now he's 51, with his university career and marriage in shambles after an obsessive affair, and he's off to his boyhood home in Illinois to hole up...

In a story of love, memory, triumph, and terror, written by the recipient of the World Fantasy Award and author of Hyperion, Raul Endymion is selected as the bodyguard to the next messiah and must rescue the girl from the enigmatic Sh...

In the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, a sinister being is stalking the town's children, and when a long-silent bell peals in the middle of the night, the townfolk know it marks the end of innocence. Reprint. PW.

The Hyperion saga is an astonishing achievement, overbrimming with adventure, lyricism and insight. A miracle of invention and economy, played out on a dozen and more meticulously created worlds, the tetralogy is surely one of science...

Generously conceived and stylistically sure-handed...an unfailingly inventive narrative that bears comparison with such classics as Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation' series, Frank Herbert's 'Dune', and Gene Wolfe's 'Book of the New Sun'.

In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams--member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Pres...

A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable epic by the multiple-award-winning author of ...

The concluding volume in Simmon's Nebula Award-winning Hyperion saga continues the story of Aenea and Raul Endymion. As Raul ascends the political ladder, and Aenea realizes her destiny as the messiah, the two travel to Hyperion, wher...

Paha Sapa, a young Sioux warrior, first encounters General George Armstrong Custer as Custer lies dying on the battlefield at Little Bighorn. He believes--as do the holy men of his tribe--that the legendary general's ghost entered him...

The United States is near total collapse. But 87% of the population doesn't care: they're addicted to flashback, a drug that allows its users to re-experience the best moments of their lives. After ex-detective Nick Bottom's wife died...

Jeremy Bremen has a secret.  All his life he's been cursed with the ability to read minds.  He knows the secret thoughts, fears, and desires of others as if they were his own.  For years, his wife, Gail, has served as a shield b...

Dan Simmons’s extraordinarily complex, epic science fictional exploration of Homer’s ILIAD, the structure and history of human literature, and the future of humanity wraps up in this sequel to ILIUM. The far-future reenact...

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, O...

Rage. Sing, O Muse, of the rage of Achilles, of Peleus' son, murderous man-killer, fated to die, sing of the rage that cost the Achaeans so many good men and sent so many vital, hearty souls down to the dreary House of Death. And whil...

It's the summer of 1942, and FBI agent Joe Lucas has come to Cuba at the behest of the Director to keep an eye on Ernest Hemingway in the Caribbean. Lucas thinks of it as a demotion-a babysitting job for a famous writer who has decide...

If you're going to shoot Joe Kurtz, you'd better shoot to kill.Ex-PI Joe Kurtz's survival is on the line when an ambush leaves him badly wounded and his parole officer, Peg O'Toole, clinging to life. Their respective professions have ...

Revenge has never been served so cold.Joe Kurtz, former investigator and convicted felon, is on parole. But the years he spent in Attica didn't make his old haunts any safer. Back on the streets of Buffalo, he's already marked by a lo...

Once Joe Kurtz needed revenge--and revenge cost him eleven years in Attica prison. Now Kurtz needs a job, and the price is going to be higher. Out of prison, out of touch, Kurtz signs on with the Byron Farino, Don of a Mob family whos...

The bestselling novel, "a brilliant, massive combination of history and supernatural horror" (Stephen King) is now a major TV series.The men on board the HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage. But what the...