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Black Hills by Dan Simmons
Category: Fiction SPECIALS
Paha Sapa, 'Black Hills', is a Red Indian shaman who as a young boy at the Battle of Little Bighorn takes the ghost of the dying General Custer into his own body. Sixty years later as an old man working as a dynamiter on Mount Rushmore, he plots to blow it up. Meanwhile, Custer finds himself trapped in ...Show more
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
Category: Fiction
THE PAST. Caught behind the lines of Hitler's Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. But he will soon fall into the clutches of an evil far older and greater than the Nazis themselves. THE PRESENT. A rare few individuals have the ...Show more
Drood by Dan Simmons
Category: Fiction
Sealed for 125 years, a secret manuscript by Charles Dickens' friend and some-time collaborator Wilkie Collins, reveals the dark secret that obsessed both men - a secret that not only ended their long friendship, but also brought each writer to the very brink of murder. On June 9, 1865, while traveling ...Show more
Drood : A novel by Dan Simmons
Category: Fiction
This story shall be about my friend (as at least about the man who was once my friend) Charles Dickens and about the accident that took away his peace of mind, his health, and, some might whisper, his sanity...' Sealed for one hundred and twenty-five years, Wilkie Collins's scribbled words launch a feve ...Show more
Endymion by Dan Simmons
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the universethat is his greatest triumph–the world of Hyperion and The Fall ofHyperion –with a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors. Dan Simmons’s Hyperion was an immediate sensation on its firstpublication in 1989. This staggeri ...Show more
Endymion by Dan Simmons
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Gollancz S.F.
Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raoul and Aenea travel the river Tet ...Show more
Fifth Heart by Dan Simmons
Category: Fiction
In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to investigate the suicide of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams - a member of the family that has given the United States two Presidents. Quickly, the investigators deduce that there's more to Clover's death than me ...Show more
Flashback by Dan Simmons
Category: Fiction
America, 2036: a wasteland in economic ruin. Terrorism and ultra-violence plague a once powerful society, whose only escape is to numb itself on flashback - a euphoric yet cripplingly addictive drug that allows its users to re-visit their happier, past experiences. Ex-cop Nick Bottom is about to receive ...Show more
Flashback by Dan Simmons
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
AMERICA, 2036: A WASTELAND IN RUIN. Terrorism and ultra-violence plague a once powerful society, whose only escape is to numb itself on flashback: a euphoric yet cripplingly addictive regression drug. Ex-cop and addict Nick Bottom has seen flashback take his badge, his reputation and the love of his son ...Show more
Flight or Fright by Stephen King; Cody Goodfellow; John Varley; Joe Hill; David Schow; Ray Bradbury; Roald Dahl; Peter Treemayne; James L. Dickey; Bev Vincent; Michael Lewis; Arthur Conan Doyle; Richard Matheson; Ambrose Bierce; E. c. Tubb; Tom Bissell; Dan Simmons
Category: Fiction
Stephen King hates to fly. Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you. Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up ...Show more
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Category: Fiction | Series: Gollancz S.F.
It is the 29th century and the universe of the Human Hegemony is under threat. Invasion by the warlike Ousters looms, and the mysterious schemes of the secessionist AI TechnoCore bring chaos ever closer. On the eve of disaster, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set fourth on a final voyage t ...Show more