Dan Simmons Has Passed Away

[TacomaDiver]

Came across this on Reddit - didn't realize he was local to me.

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obit...mmons-12758871

[sholloman81]

Came across this on Reddit - didn't realize he was local to me.

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obit...mmons-12758871

Well that sucks to hear! Always enjoyed his writing and wish we could have gotten more. God Bless!

[Sock Monkey]

I had not heard of Simmon's passing until this post, so thank you for sharing. While not everything Simmons wrote resonated with me, I counted him among my favorite authors and I'm sorry to hear the news of his death.

[Ben Staad]

Another big loss. He was a helluva writer. RIP, Mr. Simmons. Your words will live for eternity.

[Chuggers]

Those reddit threads turned pretty vile, as they do.

He was a great.

[TacomaDiver]

Those reddit threads turned pretty vile, as they do.

Right? Admittedly I wasn't familiar with him outside of his writing, but damn people.

Seems like his death fell under the radar a bit - Ars Technica even posted something today and it's almost been a week since he passed.

[brlesh]

Sorry to hear this.

Simmons was truly one of the greatest writers of the last 50 years.

He transcended genre. Horror, science fiction, historical fantasy, crime. He could do it all, and do it all at a high level.

I haven’t read everything he’s written, but most of what I have read by him I’ve thoroughly enjoyed.

He will be sorely missed.

B

[RonClinton]

I was really sorry to see this yesterday. He always came off to me as an affable guy, brilliant but very down to earth. I had the pleasure of meeting him twice at two different book signings/readings. On the second one, several years ago, he and I had a pretty good conversation regarding his Joe Kurtz series, his Parker homage, a discussion I still think of and smile. He mentioned during our talk that there was/is a fourth Kurtz novel that Mulholland had and was supposed to publish…but now obviously never did. No idea why, but it’s a shame…maybe someday it’ll see the light of day. I really can’t think of a popular modern genre author with such a breadth of variety in their work: from outright horror to epic SF (HYPERION quartet, etc.) to crime (Joe Kurtz trilogy) to historical thrillers, and so on. Really a tremendous loss, both as an author whose work was almost always satisfying and as an example to the publishing industry that the best authors can't and shouldn’t be pigeonholed.