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Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77 (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

https://bookshop.org/beta-search?keywords=dan+simmons

He did a lot of other books.

"Drood" is a wild tale told by an opium addict, pretty much the ultimate unreliable narrator.

"The Crook Factory" has Ernest Hemingway chasing Nazi submarines lurking near Cuba.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Drood was so ... long to read (I mean weird pacing) and I couldn't decide if it was intentional or not.

    Also not giving us more of the tusk lady etc was criminal (but I knew that fairly from the start that I'm getting snubbed in my ghostly lore needs).

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Drood isn't for everyone, but I enjoyed the craziness.

    'Black Hills' is also pretty good. Native man gets a job working on the Mount Rushmore project. It's a desecration but he needs the work.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    Oh, I kinda enjoyed Drood (like a snack I'm already fed up with yet keep munching), but in comparison some passages felt fatiguing, style a bit different, topics a bit mondaine (again, might have been intentional to show opium changes, idk).

    Didn't read Black Hills, almost don't want to, but prob will at some point (thx for reminding me).

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