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Science Fiction

jambo101

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5. Dan Simmonds

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Sun May 20, 2012, 01:57 AM

May 2012

I've read his Illium and Olympos series and the Hyperion series and found his writing in those books very satisfying..As yet i havent read Flashback,is this a new book or something he wrote when he was starting out?.

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So I'm reading Flashback by Dan Simmons. The setting is [View all] hedgehog May 2012 OP

Quoting him: "In a word . . . no. In two words . . . hell no." getting old in mke May 2012 #1

I don't buy it. hedgehog May 2012 #2

He believes it. He's one of the viler writers out there. Posteritatis May 2012 #3

I've really enjoyed his work in the past but a few things I've read make me think he's fucking crazy Rowdyboy May 2012 #4

Dan Simmonds jambo101 May 2012 #5

I think it was published in 2011 hedgehog May 2012 #6

I comfort myself with the idea that we wake up as slightly different people every day. sudopod May 2012 #7

Well, shit. There's another author down the tubes. semillama Jun 2012 #8

Thoroughly. Posteritatis Jun 2012 #9

well, at least we still have David Brin. n/t semillama Jun 2012 #10

Sadly, most of what wingnuts genuinely believe is just that OTT Bucky Jun 2012 #11