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 Dan Simmons in general
Newest Review: ... which is composed of tracts of Colorado drawn from different epochs of historical and geological time. Kelly spells the rules out to him on his arrival: the game is that they are to hunt each other, most likely to the death. At the end of the hunt he returns to his original reality -- but to discover that there's been a slight change: now there never was a Kelly Dahl under his tutelage; ... more  ... she has existed only in his memory. A lesser writer would have tied all this together with some neat explanation -- some explication of a mechanism that would make all the pieces of the story make sense. Wisely, Simmons doesn't do this: such a ...more |
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Dan Simmons in general: Worlds Enough & Time: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction (914 words)
by - written on 04/12/03 (Very useful, 16 readings)
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Dan Simmons is such a fine writer that it's unthinkable that any collection of his stories would be anything less than OK. But, by the same token, one expects a Simmons collection to be a bit more than OK, and I'm not too sure this one is. The five long stories are "Looking for Kelly Dahl" (1995), "Orphans of the Helix" (1999), "The Ninth of Av" (2000), "On K2 With Kanakaredes" (2001) and "The End of Gravity" (2002; original to this collection). The first of these is fantasy; the next three are science fiction; and the final piece is less a story than an edited movie treatment that has touches of ... Read the complete review
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