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Dan Simmons
Born (1948-04-04)April 4, 1948 (age 77)
OccupationNovelist
EducationWabash College (BA)
Washington University in St. Louis (MEd)
Period1983–present
GenreScience fiction,horror,fantasy
Notable worksSong of Kali (1985)
Hyperion (1989)
Carrion Comfort (1989)
The Terror (2007)

Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an Americanscience fiction andhorror writer. He is the author of theHyperion Cantos and theIlium/Olympos cycles, among other works that span the science fiction, horror, and fantasygenres, sometimes within a single novel. Simmons's genre-interminglingSong of Kali (1985) won theWorld Fantasy Award.[1] He also writes mysteries andthrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz.

Biography

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Born inPeoria, Illinois, Simmons started writing stories as a child with the goal of mesmerizing his audience with his story telling.[2] Simmons received aB.A. in English fromWabash College in 1970 and, in 1971, aMasters in Education fromWashington University in St. Louis.[3]

He soon started writing short stories, although his career did not take off until 1982, when, throughHarlan Ellison's help, Simmons was invited to the Milford workshop, which Ellison considered to be "the best SF writing workshop in the world".[4] Simmons considered Ellison as a mentor, friend, and the reason he pursued writing full-time.[4] Simmons' short story "The River Styx Runs Upstream" was published and awarded first prize in aTwilight Zone Magazine story competition, and he was taken on as a client by Ellison's agent, Richard Curtis. Simmons's first novel,Song of Kali, was released in 1985.[3]

He worked in elementary education until 1989.[3]

He lives inLongmont, Colorado as of 2007[update].[5]

Horror fiction

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Summer of Night (1991) recounts the childhood of a group of pre-teens who band together in the 1960s, to defeat a centuries-old evil that terrorizes their hometown of Elm Haven,Illinois. The novel, which was praised byStephen King in a cover blurb, is similar to King'sIt (1986) in its focus on small-town life, the corruption of innocence, the return of an ancient evil, and the responsibility for others that emerges with the transition from youth to adulthood.

In the sequel toSummer of Night,A Winter Haunting (2002), Dale Stewart (one of the first book's protagonists and now an adult), revisits his boyhood home to come to grips with mysteries that have disrupted his adult life.

Between the publication ofSummer of Night (1991) andA Winter Haunting (2002), several additional characters fromSummer of Night appeared in:Children of the Night (1992), a loose sequel toSummer of Night, which features Mike O'Rourke, now much older and a Roman Catholic priest, who is sent on a mission to investigate bizarre events in a European city;Fires of Eden (1994), in which the adult Cordie Cooke appears; andDarwin's Blade (2000), a thriller in which Dale's younger brother, Lawrence Stewart, appears as a minor character.[6][7]

AfterSummer of Night, Simmons focused on writing science fiction until the 2007 work ofhistorical fiction and horror,The Terror. His 2009 bookDrood is based on the last years ofCharles Dickens' life leading up to the writing ofThe Mystery of Edwin Drood, which Dickens had partially completed at the time of his death.[8]

Historical fiction

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The Terror (2007) crosses the bridge between horror and historical fiction. It is a fictionalized account of SirJohn Franklin andhis expedition to find theNorthwest Passage. The two ships,HMS Erebus andHMS Terror, become icebound the first winter, and the captains and crew struggle to survive while being stalked across an Arctic landscape by a monster. The novel was adapted into aten-part television series.

The Abominable (2013) recounts a mid-1920s attempt onMount Everest by five climbers—two British, one French, oneSherpa, and one American (the narrator)—to recover the body of a cousin of one of the British characters.[9]

Literary references

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Many of Simmons's works have strong ties with classic literature. For example:

Bibliography

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Novels

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Series

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Hyperion Cantos
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  1. Hyperion (1989) –ISBN 978-0553283686
  2. The Fall of Hyperion (1990) –ISBN 978-0553288209
  3. Endymion (1996) –ISBN 978-3453315174
  4. The Rise of Endymion (1997) –ISBN 978-0747258933
Related short fiction
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Seasons of Horror
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  1. Summer of Night (1991) –ISBN 978-0312550677
  2. Children of the Night (1992) –ISBN 978-1250009852
  3. Fires of Eden (1994) –ISBN 978-0061056147
  4. Darwin's Blade (2000) –ISBN 978-0380973699
  5. A Winter Haunting (2002) –ISBN 978-0380817160
Related
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  • Banished Dreams (1990), collects three prophetic dream sequences that were expurgated from the published edition ofSummer of Night, entitled "Dale's Dream", "Kevin's Dream" and "Mike's Dream"
Joe Kurtz
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  1. Hardcase (2001) –ISBN 978-0312980160
  2. Hard Freeze (2002) –ISBN 978-0316213509
  3. Hard as Nails (2003) –ISBN 978-0312994686
Ilium/Olympos
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  1. Ilium (2003) –ISBN 978-0380817924
  2. Olympos (2005) –ISBN 978-0380817931

Standalone

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Short stories

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Collections

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  • Prayers to Broken Stones (1990), six short stories and seven novellas/novelettes:
    "The River Styx Runs Upstream", "Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams" (novelette), "Vanni Fucci Is Alive and Well and Living in Hell", "Vexed to Nightmare by a Rocking Cradle", "Remembering Siri" (novelette ofHyperion Cantos series), "Metastasis", "The Offering" (novelette), "E-Ticket to 'Namland" AKA "E-Ticket to Namland" (novelette), "Iverson's Pits" (novella), "Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites", "The Death of the Centaur" (novelette ofHyperion Cantos series), "Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds", "Carrion Comfort" (novelette)
  • Lovedeath (1993), collection of five novelettes and novellas
    "Entropy's Bed at Midnight" (novelette), "Dying in Bangkok" AKA "Death in Bangkok" (novelette), "Sleeping with Teeth Women" (novella), "Flashback" (novelette), "The Great Lover" (novella)
  • Worlds Enough & Time (2002), collection of five novellas/novelettes:
    "Looking for Kelly Dahl" (novella), "Orphans of the Helix" (novelette fromHyperion Cantos series), "The Ninth of Av" (novella), "On K2 with Kanakaredes" (novelette), "The End of Gravity" (novella)

Uncollected short fiction

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  • "Presents of Mind" (1986, withEdward Bryant,Steve Rasnic Tem andConnie Willis)
  • "Dying Is Easy, Comedy Is Hard" (1990, withEdward Bryant) -(Novelette)
  • "The Counselor" (1991) -(Novelette)
  • "All Dracula's Children" (1991) -(Novelette)
  • "My Private Memoirs of the Hoffer Stigmata Pandemic" (1991)
  • "This Year's Class Picture" (1992) (Appeared inThe Living Dead, an anthology edited byJohn Joseph Adams)
  • "Elm Haven, IL" (1992) -(Novelette), fromFreak Show series
  • "One Small Step for Max" (1992)
  • "My Copsa Micas" (1994) -(Novelette)
  • Madame Bovary, C'est Moi (2000)
  • Muse of Fire (2007) -(Novella)
  • The Guiding Nose of Ulfänt Banderōz (2009) -(Novella) published as achapbook and set inJack Vance'sDying Earth setting
  • The Final Pogrom (2024)

Non-fiction

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  • Going After the Rubber Chicken (1991), a collection of three convention guest-of-honor speeches by Simmons
  • Summer Sketches (1992), Simmons reveals how his travel experiences have allowed him to instill a feeling of place in readers of his fiction
  • Negative Spaces: Two talks (1999), about science fiction

Adaptations

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In January 2004, it was announced that the screenplay he wrote for his novelsIlium andOlympos would be made into a film byDigital Domain and Barnet Bain Films, with Simmons acting as executive producer.Ilium is described as an "epic tale that spans 5,000 years and sweeps across the entire solar system, including themes and characters fromHomer'sIliad andShakespeare'sThe Tempest."[21]

In 2008,Guillermo del Toro was scheduled to direct a film adaptation ofDrood forUniversal Pictures.[22] As of December 2017, the project is still listed as "in development".[23]

In 2009,Scott Derrickson was set to directHyperion Cantos forWarner Bros. and Graham King, with Trevor Sands penning a script adaptingHyperion andThe Fall of Hyperion into one film.[24] In 2011, actorBradley Cooper expressed interest in taking over the adaptation.[25] In 2015, it was announced that TV channelSyfy would produce a miniseries based on the Hyperion Cantos with the involvement of Cooper and King.[26] As of May 2017, the project was still "in development" at Syfy.[27] On November 1, 2021, Cooper and King restarted the feature film adaptation at Warner Bros., withTom Spezialy set to write the script.[28]

The Terror (2007) was adapted in 2018 as anAMC10-episode miniseries and received generally positive reviews upon release.[29][30]

Awards

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Wins

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WorkYear & AwardCategoryRef.
Song of Kali1986World Fantasy AwardNovel
Carrion Comfort1989Bram Stoker AwardNovel
1990 Locus AwardHorror Novel
1990British Fantasy AwardAugust Derleth Award
Hyperion1990Locus AwardSF Novel[31]
1990Hugo AwardNovel
1991Premio IgnotusForeign Novel
1995Seiun AwardTranslated Long Story
1998Tähtivaeltaja Award
The Fall of Hyperion1991 Locus AwardSF Novel
1991 SF Chronicle AwardNovel[32]
1991BSFA AwardNovel
1996 Seiun AwardTranslated Long Work
Entropy's Bed at Midnight1991 Locus AwardNovelette
1991 Readercon AwardsShort Work[33]
Prayers to Broken Stones1991 Bram Stoker AwardFiction Collection
Summer of Night1992 Locus AwardHorror/Dark Fantasy Novel
All Dracula's Children1992 Locus AwardNovelette
This Year's Class Picture1992 Bram Stoker AwardShort Fiction
1993 World Fantasy AwardShort Fiction
1993Theodore Sturgeon AwardShort Science Fiction
1999 Seiun AwardTranslated Short Story
2009FantLab's Book of the Year AwardNovella/Short Story
2010Nocte Award

(listed asLa foto de la clase de este año)

Foreign Short Story
Children of the Night1993 Locus AwardHorror/Dark Fantasy Novel[34]
Dying in Bangkok1993 Bram Stoker AwardNovelette
1994 Locus AwardNovelette
Fires of Eden1995 Locus AwardHorror/Dark Fantasy Novel
The Great Lover1996Grand Prix de l'ImaginaireForeign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories
The Rise of Endymion1998 Locus AwardSF Novel
1998 SF Chronicle AwardNovel[35]
1999 Prix ZoneForeign SF Novel[36]
Orphans of the Helix2000 Locus AwardNovella[37]
The Crook Factory2000 Colorado Book AwardLiterary Fiction[38]
A Winter Haunting2002International Horror Guild AwardNovel[39]
2003 Colorado Book AwardFiction[40]
Ilium2004 Locus AwardSF Novel[41]
2004 SF Site Readers PollSF/Fantasy Book[42]
The Terror2007 International Horror Guild AwardNovel
2008 FantLab's Book of the Year AwardNovel/Collection
Drood2009 Black Quill AwardsDark Novel Genre of the Year (Readers' Choice)[43]
2013World Horror Convention Grand Master Award

Nominations

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Dan Simmons has been nominated on numerous occasions in a range of categories for his fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Society Award, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.[44]

WorkYear & AwardCategoryRef.
The River Styx Runs Upstream1983Locus AwardShort Story[31]
2012 FantLab's Book of the Year AwardTranslated Novella or Short Story
Remembering Siri1984 Locus AwardNovelette
Song of Kali1986 Locus AwardFirst Novel
Metastasis1989World Fantasy AwardShort Fiction
Phases of Gravity1990 Locus AwardSF Novel
1995 Grand Prix de l'ImaginairePrix spécial[45]
Prayers To Broken Stones

Collection

1990Bram Stoker AwardFiction Collection
1990 Locus AwardCollection
1991 World Fantasy AwardCollection
Entropy's Bed at Midnight1990 Bram Stoker AwardLong Fiction
2012 FantLab's Book of the Year AwardTranslated Novella or Short Story
Hyperion1990BFSA AwardNovel
1990 SF ChronicleNovel[46]
1993Grand Prix de l'ImaginaireForeign Novel
Carrion Comfort1990 World Fantasy AwardNovel
The Fall of Hyperion1991Hugo AwardNovel
1991Nebula AwardNovel
Summer of Night1991 Bram Stoker AwardNovel
1992British Fantasy AwardAugust Derleth Award[47]
1993Kurd Laßwitz AwardForeign Work[48]
Children of the Night1992 Bram Stoker AwardNovel
Lovedeath1993 Bram Stoker AwardFiction Collection
1994 Locus AwardCollection
1996Grand Prix de l'ImaginaireForeign Novel[49]
The Hollow Man1993 Locus AwardSF Novel
1995 Kurd Laßwitz AwardForeign Work[50]
Flashback1993 Bram Stoker AwardNovella
1994 Locus AwardNovella
2011Goodreads Choice AwardsScience Fiction[51]
Dying in Bangkok1994 World Fantasy AwardShort Fiction
Looking for Kelly Dahl1996 Locus AwardNovella
1998 Grand Prix de l'ImaginaireForeign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories[52]
Endymion1997 Locus AwardSF Novel
1998Premio IgnotusForeign Novel
1998 Kurd Laßwitz AwardForeign Work[53]
The Rise of Endymion1998 Hugo AwardNovel
1999 Premio IgnotusForeign Novel
2000 Grand Prix de l'ImaginaireForeign Novel[54]
2000 Kurd Laßwitz AwardForeign Work[55]
Endymion &The Rise of Endymion2000 Seiun AwardTranslated Long Work
Madame Bovary, c'est moi2001 Locus AwardShort Story
Orphans of the Helix2001 Premio IgnotusForeign Story
On K2 with Kanakaredes2002 Locus AwardNovelette
Worlds Enough & Time2003 Locus AwardCollection
2005 Kurd Laßwitz AwardForeign Work
A Winter Haunting2003 Locus AwardFantasy Novel
Ilium2004 Hugo AwardNovel
2005 Premio IgnotusForeign Novel
2005 Grand Prix de l'ImaginaireForeign Novel[56]
2005 Kurd Laßwitz AwardForeign Work[57]
2007 Seiun AwardTranslated Long Work
Olympos2006 Locus AwardSF Novel
2008 Seiun AwardTranslated Long Work
The Terror2007 Black Quill AwardDark Genre Novel of the Year[58]
2007 Bram Stoker AwardNovel
2008Shirley Jackson AwardNovel[59]
2008 British Fantasy AwardAugust Derleth Award[60]
2009 Premio IgnotusForeign Novel
Muse of Fire2008 Locus AwardNovella
Drood2010 Locus AwardFantasy Novel
2011FantLab's Book of the Year AwardTranslated Novel/Collection
2012 Grand Prix de l'ImaginaireForeign Novel[61]
The Guiding Nose of Ulfant Banderoz2017 Seiun AwardTranslated Short Story

Finalists

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YearAwardCategoryWorkRef.
1992Arthur C. Clarke AwardScience Fiction NovelHyperion Cantos

Other

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YearAwardCategoryWorkResultRef.
1999SF Site Readers PollSF/Fantasy BookThe Rise of Endymion6th Place[62]
2006SF Site Readers PollSF/Fantasy BookOlympos9th Place[63]
2008SF Site Readers PollSF/Fantasy BookThe Terror9th Place[64]
2014RUSA CODES Reading ListHistorical FictionThe AbominableShortlisted[65]

References

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  1. ^"1986 Award Winners & Nominees".Worlds Without End. RetrievedJuly 16, 2009.
  2. ^alex@bookbanter.net,BookBanter Episode 004 - An Interview With Dan Simmons, retrievedApril 24, 2024
  3. ^abc"About Dan: Biographic Sketch".dansimmons.com. Archived fromthe original on June 4, 2018. RetrievedJune 14, 2018.
  4. ^ab""Something Only Your Soul Knew" – Wabash Magazine".blog.wabash.edu. RetrievedApril 24, 2024.
  5. ^Evans, Clay (February 7, 2007)."Myth and madness in the frozen north".Boulder Daily Camera. RetrievedDecember 2, 2023.
  6. ^"Review:Darwin's Blade".Publishers Weekly. October 30, 2000.
  7. ^Simmons, Dan (2000).Darwin's Blade. William Morrow.ISBN 978-0-380-97369-9.
  8. ^Gwinn, Mary Ann (February 15, 2009)."Q&A: Dan Simmons, author of "Drood"".The Seattle Times.
  9. ^Robbins, Michael (October 20, 2013)."Review: 'The Abominable' by Dan Simmons".Chicago Tribune.
  10. ^"1990 Award Winners & Nominees".Worlds Without End. RetrievedJuly 16, 2009.
  11. ^Miller, T. S. (2013)."Flying Chaucers, Insectile Ecclesiasts, and Pilgrims Through Space and Time: The Science Fiction Chaucer".The Chaucer Review.48 (2).doi:10.5325/chaucerrev.48.2.0129.S2CID 161558250. RetrievedMay 26, 2020.
  12. ^"John Keats".Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. September 6, 2018. RetrievedSeptember 7, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  13. ^Willems, Brian (2009).Hopkins and Heidegger. London: Continuum.ISBN 9781441169563.
  14. ^Feeley, Gregory (September 27, 1992)."The Hollow Man".The Washington Post.
  15. ^Stableford, Brian (March 1, 2009).News of the Black Feast and Other Random Reviews. Wildside Press LLC. pp. 73–74.ISBN 9781434403360.
  16. ^Marvell, A. (1981). "To his coy mistress." The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved on 17 October 2018 fromhttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44688/to-his-coy-mistress
  17. ^Owchar, Nick (August 7, 2011)."Book review: 'Flashback' by Dan Simmons".Los Angeles Times. RetrievedDecember 11, 2018.
  18. ^"Dan Simmons The Abominable cover art reveal!".Upcoming4.me. March 14, 2013. Archived fromthe original on March 19, 2013. Retrieved14 March 2013.
  19. ^"Dan Simmons To Release 'The Fifth Heart', His Next Book After 'The Abominable'".Kernel's Corner. March 10, 2014. RetrievedApril 6, 2014.
  20. ^Omega Canyon. March 14, 2025.ISBN 978-0-316-19891-2. RetrievedMarch 14, 2025.{{cite book}}:|work= ignored (help)
  21. ^Marc Graser; Jonathan Bing (January 8, 2004)."'Ilium,' 'Olympos' optioned for pic".Variety. RetrievedApril 29, 2019.
  22. ^Fleming, Michael Jr. (September 3, 2008)."Guillermo Del Toro booked thru 2017".Variety. RetrievedDecember 25, 2017.
  23. ^"Drood".IMDB.com. Internet Movie Database. RetrievedDecember 25, 2017.
  24. ^Fleming, Michael (January 29, 2009)."Scott Derrickson to direct 'Hyperion'".Variety.Archived from the original on July 22, 2015. RetrievedDecember 10, 2012.
  25. ^Falconer, Robert (May 27, 2011)."Bradley Cooper Anxious to Adapt Dan Simmons's Hyperion for the Screen".Cinemaspy. Archived fromthe original on July 3, 2012. Retrieved2012-12-10.
  26. ^Goldberg, Lesley (June 10, 2015)."Bradley Cooper, Graham King, Todd Phillips Adapting Dan Simmons' 'Hyperion' for Syfy".The Hollywood Reporter. RetrievedAugust 5, 2015.
  27. ^Fowler, Matt (May 12, 2017)."Syfy Reboot Includes Greenlit Krypton Series, George R.R. Martin's Nightflyers and More". IGN News. RetrievedMay 28, 2017.
  28. ^D'Alessandro, Anthony (November 1, 2021)."Bradley Cooper Launches Production Label; Sets 'Hyperion' At Warner Bros With Graham King".Deadline Hollywood. RetrievedJanuary 5, 2022.
  29. ^"The Terror: Season 1 (2018)".Rotten Tomatoes. RetrievedApril 10, 2018.
  30. ^"The Terror Reviews".Metacritic. RetrievedApril 10, 2018.
  31. ^ab"Sfadb : Dan Simmons Awards".
  32. ^"Sfadb: Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll 1991".
  33. ^"Sfadb: Readercon Awards 1991".
  34. ^"Sfadb: Locus Awards 1993".
  35. ^"Sfadb: Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll 1998".
  36. ^"Pages prix".
  37. ^"Sfadb: Locus Awards 2000".
  38. ^https://coloradohumanities.org/programs/colorado-book-awards/
  39. ^"International Horror Guild".
  40. ^https://coloradohumanities.org/programs/colorado-book-awards/
  41. ^"Title: Ilium".
  42. ^"Sfadb: SF Site Readers Poll 2004".
  43. ^http://www.darkscribemagazine.com/3rd-annual-winners/
  44. ^Works in the WWEnd Database for Dan Simmons.
  45. ^"1995 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire".
  46. ^"1990 SF Chronicle Award".
  47. ^"Sfadb: British Fantasy Awards 1992".
  48. ^"1993 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis".
  49. ^"1996 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire".
  50. ^"1995 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis".
  51. ^"Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Science Fiction!".
  52. ^"1998 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire".
  53. ^"1998 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis".
  54. ^"2000 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire".
  55. ^"2000 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis".
  56. ^"2005 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire".
  57. ^"2005 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis".
  58. ^"Black Quill Award | 2007 | Awards and Honors | LibraryThing".
  59. ^"Sfadb: Shirley Jackson Awards 2008".
  60. ^"Sfadb: British Fantasy Awards 2008".
  61. ^"2012 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire".
  62. ^"Sfadb: SF Site Readers Poll 1999".
  63. ^"Sfadb: SF Site Readers Poll 2006".
  64. ^"Sfadb: SF Site Readers Poll 2008".
  65. ^https://rusaupdate.org/awards/the-reading-list/

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