He also worked as a national language-arts consultant, sharing his own 'Writing Well' curriculum which he had created for his own classroom. During his years of teaching, he won awards from the Colorado Education Association and was a finalist for the Colorado Teacher of the Year. His last four years in teaching were spent creating, coordinating, and teaching in APEX, an extensive gifted/talented program serving 19 elementary schools and some 15,000 potential students. He then worked in elementary education for 18 years-2 years in Missouri, 2 years in Buffalo, New York-one year as a specially trained BOCES 'resource teacher' and another as a sixth-grade teacher-and 14 years in Colorado. in English from Wabash College in 1970, winning a national Phi Beta Kappa Award during his senior year for excellence in fiction, journalism and art.ĭan received his Masters in Education from Washington University in St. Here is a Hugo Award-winning landmark in Science Fiction.ĭan Simmons grew up in various cities and small towns in the Midwest, including Brimfield, Illinois, which was the source of his fictional 'Elm Haven' in 1991's SUMMER OF NIGHT and 2002's A WINTER HAUNTING. Here is a superb vision of future technology and ancient religions, of scientific revelation and timeless mystery, of transcendent joy and mind-bending horror. Something is drawing the Hegemony, the Ousters, the Als, the entire universe to the Shrike. His genesis could mean annihilation for man.

The Ousters are laying siege to the Hegemony of Man and the AIs we created have turned against us to build the Ultimate Intelligence God. The mysterious Time Tombs are opening and the Shrike that has risen from them may well control the fate of all mankind. The pilgrims have resolved to die before discovering anything less than the secrets of the universe itself. On the eve of disaster, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set fourth on a final voyage to the legendary Time Tombs on Hyperion, home to the Shrike, a lethal creature, part god and part killing machine, whose powers transcend the limits of time and space. Invasion by the warlike Ousters looms, and the mysterious schemes of the secessionist AI TechnoCore bring chaos ever closer. Lt is the 29th century and the universe of the Human Hegemony is under threat. Together in one volume for the first time, the first two novels of the Hyperion Cantos.

The Hyperion Omnibus by Dan Simmons