Worlds Enough & Time: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction
By Dan Simmons
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An extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantalizing the mind and touching the soul. Now he offers us a superb quintet of novellas -- five dazzling masterworks of speculative fiction, including "Orphans of the Helix," his award-winning return to the Hyperion Universe -- that demonstrates the unique mastery, breathtaking invention, and flawless craftsmanship of one of contemporary fiction's true greats.
Human colonists seeking something other than godhood encounter their long-lost "cousins"...and an ancient scourge.
- A devastated man in suicide's embrace is caught up in a bizarre cat-and-mouse game with a young woman possessing a world-ending power.
- The distant descendants of a once-oppressed people learn a chilling lesson about the persistence of the past.
- A terrifying ascent up the frigid, snow-swept slopes of K2 shatters preconceptions and reveals the true natures of four climbers, one of whom is not human.
- At the intersection of a grand past and a threadbare present, an aging American in Russia confronts his own mortality as he glimpses a wondrous future.
Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons is the Hugo Award-winning author of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion, and their sequels, Endymion and The Rise of Endymion. He has written the critically acclaimed suspense novels Darwin's Blade and The Crook Factory, as well as other highly respected works, including Summer of Night and its sequel A Winter Haunting, Song of Kali, Carrion Comfort, and Worlds Enough & Time. Simmons makes his home in Colorado.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I am not much of a short story reader, but I was pleasantly surprised by this collection. Dan Simmons writes five stories, two of which are connected with the Hyperion universe and one with the Illium; speculative fiction is the right description, as they're not really science fiction. The stories are brief, but seem very well-paced; just the right amount of detail and complexity for their length. I didn't like that the endings were all fairly happy - nothing wrong with optimism, but I often feel that a little darkness makes a tale more realistic. This is particularly an objection to "Orphans of the Helix." Even so, I found it a pleasant and enjoyable read, and will keep it on my shelf.