Talk:Dan Simmons

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Contents 1 Fulsome praise 2 Olympus vs Olympos 3 "Time traveler" thing 4 Vagina Dentata 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Hyperion omnibus.jpg

[edit] Fulsome praise

"From the beginning, Simmons showed himself to be one of the few genre authors who possessed plot developing abilities, and he proved able to write high-level prose that is derived from his familiarity with the classics."

The first part of the sentence strikes me as rather excessively POV, both towards Simmons and against all the other genre authors. The second part seems complimentary but not particularly meaningful; what is the definition of "high-level prose"? I'm not familiar with his work, could someone who is revise the sentence in question? —Clement Cherlin 04:52, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Better now? --maru (talk) contribs 05:06, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Olympus vs Olympos

I noticed that in the header rows, Simmons' latest duology is referred to as Ilium / Olympus.
Since the book itself bears the titel Olympos I think the headers should be adjusted.
I will do this if there are no objections. If so, I'd be interested why the -us variant is preferred.

[edit] "Time traveler" thing

Do we consider this thing to be worth mentionning ? There were some reactions over the Internet, and Simmons has defended it [1] later. Rama 08:38, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

There is some hostility towards foreigners through his early authorship, Indians in Song of Kali, Romanians in Children of the Night, although in both cases there is a "good" representative of both people, and since they are horror stories focusing on the bad side is understandable. The hostility towards Islam (especially arabic) in Ilium/Olympos is more clear cut, and clearly influenced by the 9/11 attacks (which are referenced in the books). The blog message above falls perfectly in line with this.

However, unless it has been been a subject of analysis outside of Internet fora, it is not really something we can mention here. No original research. --Per Abrahamsen 17:08, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vagina Dentata

I've read in a book, and I'm fairly sure that it's either Neil Stephenson, Greg Bear or Dan Simmons, a Native American legend involving vagina dentatas belonging to three "spider women". I wanted to add this to the Vagina Dentata article. Does anyone know if this comes from Simmons? Tomandlu (talk) 09:32, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Hyperion omnibus.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:44, 2 January 2008 (UTC)