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I love early Simmons. The two Hyperions you speak of were tremendous reads - you will love what he does in the final two as well. You gotta give Carrion Comfort a chance, as it's easily one the...

Yeah, and right wingers probably have similar feelings towards King. I find it easy to separate the two, as long as it does not creep into the works they create.

Sad to say that I gave up on Dan a few years ago, right after a succession of Drood, Black Hills, and Flashback. Didn't care for the middle one, and the first was just too long, even for a gothic...

Unfortunately these sales support that Dan just isn't that collectable any more. So sad. I love his earlier works. I would love to see limiteds done of the Joe Kurtz books, perhaps as a set.

Well, four numbered editions, which originally sold for $250 on Sub Press, went for $150-$225 on eBay. The lettered sold for $750 on the website, and while there might be a market for it, I would...

I agree with A Winter Haunting. I didn't care for that one at all. I enjoyed Children of the Night okay.

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Fires of Eden is easily the worst of Simmons' novels. That being said,...

I have been a Simmons fan for a very long time.

If you like science fiction at all, then begin with Hyperion (one of the best sci-fi novels of all time), but be prepared to read the Fall of...

My point exactly. Despite the significant jump in time that sometimes occur, they really are one big volume.

If you read Hyperion series, you will love Endymion series. I read all four in a row and loved them.[/QUOTE]

You have to read the whole series (loved them!) - they really are four books in my...

Must be my ADD.

For those interested, I just checked ABE.com and found a number of copies of the chapbook Banished Dreams, which are the deleted dreams of the major characters from Summer of Night. As it says in...

I know what you mean. For a while I was enjoying Simmons more than King, then came The Terror and all that followed. Both King and Simmons can be a bit bloated in their narratives.

The books are quasi related, with one of the main characters being a grown-up version of the boy from Summer. They are standalone books, but I find it richer to know the character's backgrounds.

Another brilliant aspect of the four novels is how genre bending they are. Hyperion is the the Canterbury Tales in space. Fall of Hyperion is like a high tech look at AI. Endymion is like a sic-fi...

As will I. I only recently got into reading Simmons because his books are somewhat hard to find where I live, but so far I'm pretty impressed. I read Children of the Night, Flashback, The Terror and...

I didn't mean to imply one would read them out of order - thanks for clarifying. The game in time between Fall and Endymion creates a fine gap in the narrative so one would not feel compelled to...

I beg to differ a little:
1 - Hyperions Cantos (you can read them in pairs)
2 - Carrion Comfort - I love this book!
3 - Summer of Night - love coming of age stories.
4 - Ilium and Olympos and...