New Releases by Dan Simmons

LOCUS AWARD WINNER • The multiple-award-winning science fiction master continues the epic adventure that began in Hyperion, where the opening of the Time Tombs threatens to alter the very fabric of time and space, in the second novel in the Hyperion Cantos. “One of the finest achievements of modern science fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review The shadow of war has fallen on the Web. In the corridors of power on Tau Ceti Center, chaos reigns. Out of reach from the clashing empires, the artificial intelligences of the TechnoCore manipulate everyone and everything. And on Hyperion itself, where battle rages in the skies and on the streets, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing—nothing anywhere in the universe—will ever be the same.

LOCUS AWARD WINNER • Multiple-award-winning science fiction master Dan Simmons concludes the renowned Hyperion Cantos with this magnificent “full-blooded action novel” (The New York Times Book Review). “An enormously satisfying conclusion to one of the major works of modern science fiction.”—Locus The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples. But first they must embark on a final spectacular mission to discover the underlying meaning of the universe itself. They have been followed on their journey by the mysterious Shrike—monster, angel, killing machine—who is about to reveal the long-held secret of its origin and purpose. And on the planet of Hyperion, where the story first began, the final revelation will be delivered—an apocalyptic message that unlocks the secrets of existence and the fate of humankind in the galaxy.

Conectado por uma rede de milhares de portais, o governo interplanetário da Hegemonia do Homem se vê ameaçado por uma conspiração sem precedentes. Quando naves alienígenas tomam os céus de Hyperion e uma criatura imbatível se ergue para amedrontar a população no solo do planeta, medidas hão de ser tomadas. Se o controle não for restabelecido, o progresso secular de uma civilização com dezenas de bilhões de indivíduos estará em risco. Esse destino está nas mãos de um grupo de peregrinos enviado às Tumbas Temporais após longa viagem. Um a um, deverão sacrificar-se ao Picanço em uma batalha da qual só haverá um sobrevivente. A redenção pessoal não é uma alternativa. Uma saga espacial única, conceitos instigantes, questionamentos à conduta durante guerras e a convivência entre inteligências artificiais e humanos combinam-se nesta continuação de proporções épicas, escrita com a qualidade literária premiada de Dan Simmons. "Simmons aproveita com maestria o potencial da ficção científica." — Locus "Uma ficção científica de alto calibre, um romance que é um marco." — Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

Hét zarándok indult útnak a Hyperion távoli bolygójára, hogy a Shrike színe elé járulva választ találjanak kérdéseikre. De vajon melyikük kívánságát teljesíti a félig szerves, félig gép szörnyeteg? És mi lesz a többi hős sorsa? A világegyetem fordulóponthoz érkezett. A Hyperion félreeső bolygóján az időben visszafelé haladó, rejtélyes Időkripták megnyitják kapuikat, hogy a Shrike, a fájdalom és a megtorlás félistene milliók sorsa felett döntsön. A Számkivetettek ostrom alá veszik a Hegemóniát, míg az emberek által teremtett, megbízhatatlan MI-k azon fáradoznak, hogy létrehozzák a Végső Intelligenciát, Istent. A gépek istenét, mely pusztulásba taszíthatja az egész emberiséget. Dan Simmons klasszikus regényének, a Hyperion című űroperának a folytatása még az első kötetnél is grandiózusabb képet fest a technológiai fejlődés és az emberi civilizáció jövőjéről, de a gépek, fajok, vallások és filozófiák eposzi léptékű háborújában sem veszíti szem elől az egyént. Az olvasó újraszerkesztett kiadásban tartja kezében a könyvet.

Un soir, Darwin Minor, expert en reconstitution d'accidents de la route, reçoit un appel qui l'avertit d'un crash. Négligence, crime ou suicide, Darwin sait faire la différence. Mais là, il reste perplexe. Son enquête l'entraîne sur les traces d'une mafia spécialisée dans les arnaques à l'assurance mais il se retrouve aussi la cible de tueurs à gages russes. Est-ce que tout cela a à voir avec la mort dramatique de sa femme et de son fils dix ans auparavant dans le crash d'un 737 ?

A dermesztõ nyár fullasztó télbe fordul. Dale Stewart azt hitte, gyerekkorában végleg megszabadult a sötétségtõl, ám nagyobbat nem is tévedhetett volna. Az egykor köztiszteletben álló egyetemi oktató és regényíró élete kisiklott: felesége elhagyta, karrierje romokban, sõt egy katasztrofális viszonyt követõen még öngyilkosságot is megkísérel. Úgy dönt, hogy mindent maga mögött hagy, és visszatér gyermekkora színhelyére, az egykor virágzó kisvárosnak számító Elm Haven összeaszott maradványai közé, ahol reményei szerint nyugalomra lel. Régi barátja házát bérli ki, hogy megírja élete elsõ komoly regényét, ami történetesen a négy évtizeddel azelõtti nyár eseményeit dolgozza fel. Ám azzal, hogy a városka szélén álló, régóta elhagyatott házba vackolja be magát - ahol egykor legjobb barátja, az 1960 dermesztõ nyarán szörnyû halált halt Duane McBride lakott -, csupán az eddig elkövetett hibáit tetézi. Mert nincs egyedül a házban: ide is követték saját bejáratú démonjai, akik valami szörnyû dologra készülnek. És a hó lassan mindent maga alá temet... Az ártatlan gyermekkor végét és a felnõtté válás rémületét megragadó Dermesztõ nyár folytatásában a kultikus horroríró Dan Simmons a felnõttkor borzalmairól, a kudarcok és a megbánások sivár pusztájáról mesél átütõ erõvel.

La verdadera historia de una legendaria expedición al Ártico, transformada en una excitante y extraordinaria novela en la línea del mejor Stephen King o Patrick O'Brian. En 1847, dos barcos de la Armada británica, el HMS Erebus y el HMS Terror, que navegaban bajo el mando de sir John Franklin, están atrapados en el hielo del Ártico. En su anhelada búsqueda del paso del Noroeste, parecen haber fracasado. Sin poder hacer nada por continuar su marcha y completar su expedición, rodeados del frío polar y de inminentes peligros, solo pueden esperar a que llegue el deshielo que les permita escapar. Poco a poco, los días van pasando y las condiciones de supervivencia se vuelven más extremas; temperaturas que superan los cincuenta grados bajo cero, provisiones de comida escasas, el deterioro de los barcos o la llegada de enfermedades van mellando la esperanza de la tripulación. Por si fuera poco, la extraña presencia de una criatura bestial y misteriosa hace que los hombres crean que se enfrentan no solo a las condiciones naturales más adversas, sino también a fuerzas sobrenaturales que superan, por momentos, sus creencias y su razón. Con el tiempo y la llegada de las primeras muertes, fantasmas como el de la rebelión, el motín o el canibalismo hacen su entrada en escena, en un panorama desolador.

Con este maravilloso y singular tour de force , Simmons concluye el inigualado universo especulativo iniciado con Hyperion. Cuarta y última novela de la increíble tetralogía «Los cantos de Hyperion», una saga fundamental de la ciencia ficción moderna que fue galardonada con tres premios Locus y el Hugo de 1990. La publicación de la serie a lo largo de la década de 1990 coronó a Dan Simmons como un referente indiscutible del género, capaz de construir un mundo al estilo de los Cuentos de Canterbury, y al mismo tiempo hacer un claro homenaje a John Keats. Cuando el papa Julio XIV muere y resucita, la Hegemonía se ha convertido ya en una teocracia regida por Pax, organización cívico militar de la Iglesia católica. Gracias al control del parásito cruciforme, la Iglesia ofrece inmortalidad y la nueva fe es universal. Pax solo teme la llegada de un mesías. Y ese mesías existe. Se trata de Aenea, hija del cíbrido John Keats, que se ha refugiado durante casi trescientos años en las Tumbas del Tiempo de Hyperion. Junto con Raul Endymion y el androide A. Bettik, Aenea tendrá que huir de Pax contando con la ambigua colaboración del Alcaudón. Reseñas: «Pocas lecturas dejan el poso inevitable que logra esta serie. Cualquier obra de Simmons merece ser leída, pero esta, además, no se olvida nunca.» Miquel Barceló «"Los cantos de Hyperion" establece el estándar de la ciencia ficción para el siglo XXI.» Peter F. Hamilton

Once Joe Kurtz needed revenge -- and revenge cost him eleven years in Attica prison. Now Kurtz needs a job, and the price is going to be higher. Out of prison, out of touch, Kurtz signs on with the Byron Farino, Don of a Mob family whose son Kurtz had been protecting on the inside. Farino enlists Kurtz's help to track down the Family's missing accountant -- a man with too much knowledge of Family business to have on the loose. But someone doesn't want the accountant found -- and with enemies inside the Family vying for his throne, and turf warfare just around the corner, Farino needs an outsider like Kurtz to flush out who's really behind this latest affront. As the story twists and turns and the body count rises, Kurtz no longer knows who he can trust. Everyone seems to be after something, from the mob boss's sultry yet dangerous daughter, to a hit man named The Dane, an albino killer who is good with a knife, and a dwarf who is armed to the teeth and hell-bent on revenge. Kurtz has always been an ace investigator. Now he's about to discover that to get at the truth, sometimes you have to go after it -- hard.

-- The Terror It''s 1924 and the race to summit the world''s highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the shocking disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine high on the shoulder of Mt. Everest. By the following year, three climbers -- a British poet and veteran of the Great War, a young French Chamonix guide, and an idealistic young American -- find a way to take their shot at the top. They arrange funding from the grieving Lady Bromley, whose son also disappeared on Mt. Everest in 1924. Young Bromley -- The Abominable is Dan Simmons at his spine-chilling best.

A New York Times–bestselling author's moving novel about an astronaut returning to Earth, and the small steps and giant leaps love requires. Richard Baedecker thinks his greatest challenge was walking on the moon, but then he meets a mysterious woman who shows him his past. Join Baedecker as he comes to grips with the son and wife he lost owing to his passion for space exploration, his forgotten childhood, and the loss he experienced during the deadly flight of the Challenger. The most difficult exploration of his life is not the cold, rocky crevices of the moon, but the warm interior of his heart. Brilliant and beautifully written, Phases of Gravity is a masterpiece about love and loss that transports readers far beyond the confines of space and time. Phases of Gravity is a thoughtful, deeply involving novel from an author who has earned numerous honors, including the World Fantasy Award for Song of Kali and the Hugo Award for Hyperion.

The World Fantasy Award winner by the author of the Hyperion Cantos and Carrion Comfort: An American finds himself encircled by horrors in Calcutta . Praised by Dean Koontz as "the best novel in the genre I can remember," Song of Kali follows an American magazine editor who journeys to the brutally bleak, poverty-stricken Indian city in search of a manuscript by a mysterious poet—but instead is drawn into an encounter with the cult of Kali, goddess of death. A chilling voyage into the squalor and violence of the human condition, this novel is considered by many to be the best work by the author of The Terror, who has been showered with accolades, including the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Hugo Award.

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"The narrative begins at a critical moment in the Dying Earth''s history, a moment when signs and portents indicate that the long anticipated death of the planet is finally at hand."--Dust jacket.

AMERICA, 2036: A WASTELAND IN RUIN. Terrorism and ultra-violence plague a once powerful society, whose only escape is to numb itself on flashback: a euphoric yet cripplingly addictive regression drug. Ex-cop and addict Nick Bottom has seen flashback take his badge, his reputation and the love of his son. Alone and in despair, he has hit rock bottom. Nick is about to receive a proposition. Billionaire magnate Hiroshi Nakamura needs his services, and, in particular, his memories.

1845. Vétéran de l'exploration polaire, Sir John Franklin se déclare certain de percer le mystère du passage du Nord-Ouest. Mais l'équipée, mal préparée, tourne court ; le Grand Nord referme ses glaces sur Erebus et Terror, les deux navires de la Marine royale anglaise commandés par Sir John. Tenaillés par le froid et la faim, les cent vingt-neuf hommes de l'expédition se retrouvent pris au piège des ténèbres arctiques. L'équipage est, en outre, en butte aux assauts d'une sorte d'ours polaire à l'aspect prodigieux, qui transforme la vie à bord en cauchemar éveillé. Quel lien unit cette " chose des glaces " à Lady Silence, jeune Inuit à la langue coupée et passagère clandestine du Terror ? Serait-il possible que l'étrange créature ait une influence sur les épouvantables conditions climatiques rencontrées par l'expédition ? Le capitaine Crozier, promu commandant en chef dans des circonstances tragiques, parviendra-t-il à réprimer la mutinerie qui couve ? Désigné comme l'un des dix meilleurs livres de l'année 2007 par Entertainment Weekly et USA Today, Terreur arrive enfin en France. S'inspirant d'une histoire authentique – celle de l'expédition Franklin, qui passionna l'Angleterre victorienne –, Dan Simmons livre un roman sombre et grandiose, d'une intensité dramatique et d'un souffle exceptionnels. " Je suis en admiration devant Dan Simmons. " Stephen King

A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable epic by the multiple-award-winning author of The Hollow Man. On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope—and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands. Praise for Dan Simmons and Hyperion “Dan Simmons has brilliantly conceptualized a future 700 years distant. In sheer scope and complexity it matches, and perhaps even surpasses, those of Isaac Asimov and James Blish.”—The Washington Post Book World “An unfailingly inventive narrative . . . generously conceived and stylistically sure-handed.”—The New York Times Book Review “Simmons’s own genius transforms space opera into a new kind of poetry.”—The Denver Post “An essential part of any science fiction collection.”—Booklist

LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the world of Hyperion in this dazzling third novel of the Hyperion Cantos, introducing new characters who bear the fate of time itself in their hands. “An unfailingly inventive narrative . . . generously conceived and stylistically sure-handed.”—The New York Times Book Review Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raoul and Aenea travel the river Tethys, pursued by Father Captain Frederico DeSoya, an influential warrior-priest, and his troops. And the shrike’s enigmatic appearances continue. Endymion is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror—and the continuation of one of the science fiction’s greatest sagas.

When Paha Sapa, a young Sioux warrior, "counts coup" on General George Armstrong Custer as Custer lies dying on the battlefield at the Little Bighorn, the legendary general's ghost enters him - and his voice will speak to him for the rest of his event-filled life. Seamlessly weaving together the stories of Paha Sapa, Custer, and the American West, Dan Simmons depicts a tumultuous time in the history of both Native and white Americans. Haunted by Custer's ghost, and also by his ability to see into the memories and futures of legendary men like Sioux war-chief Crazy Horse, Paha Sapa's long life is driven by a dramatic vision he experienced as a boy in his people's sacred Black Hills. In August of 1936, a dynamite worker on the massive Mount Rushmore project, Paha Sapa plans to silence his ghost forever and reclaim his people's legacy-on the very day FDR comes to Mount Rushmore to dedicate the face.

Embraced by giants such as Stephen King and Dean R. Koontz, Dan Simmons's Carrion Comfort was originally published by Warner Books in 1989, and remains a classic of dark fantasy and horror. "One of the three greatest horror novels of the 20th century. Simple as that." --Stephen King THE PAST... Caught behind the lines of Hitler's Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazi's themselves... THE PRESENT... Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret society of beings who may often exist behind the world's most horrible and violent events. Killing from a distance, and by darkly manipulative proxy, they are people with the psychic ability to 'use' humans: read their minds, subjugate them to their wills, experience through their senses, feed off their emotions, force them to acts of unspeakable aggression. Each year, three of the most powerful of this hidden order meet to discuss their ongoing campaign of induced bloodshed and deliberate destruction. But this reunion, something will go terribly wrong. Saul's quest is about to reach its elusive object, drawing hunter and hunted alike into a struggle that will plumb the depths of mankind's attraction to violence, and determine the future of the world itself... "Epic in scale and scope but intimately disturbing, Carrion Comfort spans the ages to rewrite history and tug at the very fabric of reality. A nightmarish chronicle of predator and prey that will shatter your world view forever. A true classic." --Guillermo del Toro

"A mix of Henry Jamesian and Stephen King style scariness . . . Surely the first psychological/horror masterpiece of the 21st century." — The Denver Post A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage—and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town—the one-time residence of a strange and brilliant friend who lost his young life in a grisly "accident" back in the terrible summer of 1960—is only the latest in his long succession of recent mistakes. Because Dale is not alone here. He has been followed to this house of shadows by private demons who are now twisting his reality into horrifying new forms. And a thick, blanketing early snow is starting to fall . . . " A Winter Haunting further demonstrates Simmons' talent as a literary stylist. It is a frightening ghost story, one that will keep readers guessing until the last page." — Denver Rocky Mountain News "One of the scariest and most unnerving ghost stories to come along in quite some time." — St. Louis Post-Dispatch "[A] highly effective supernatural shocker." — Publishers Weekly "Simmons works toward a seriously well-written nonhorror novel, until we grow suspicious that we are into a deceptive tale much like the flicks The Sixth Sense and The Others, with a Jamesian ghost story overlay, wherein the everyday has an otherworldly reverse side." — Kirkus Reviews

TEXT IN SPANISH. A team of sentient robots from Jupiter''s lunar system embark on a mission to Mars, where they find a race of metahumans living out existence as the Greek gods of Olympus. These gods have recreated the Trojan War with reconstituted Greeks and Trojans, staffing it with scholars from Earth''s history who observe the events and ensure their accuracy to Homer''s Iliad. One of these scholars, Thomas Hockenberry, finds himself tangled in the midst of the interplay between the gods and their playthings, and sends the war reeling in a direction Homer could have never imagined.

The Hyperion books are credited with single-handedly reinventing and reinvigorating SF in the 1990s. A broad canvased, hugely imaginative and exciting SF epic, the books draw on the works of Keats and provide a uniquely intelligent and literary approach with cutting edge science, compelling characterisation and edge-of-your-seat excitement. The story is continued in ENDYMION and THE RISE OF ENDYMION, which Gollancz will also be publishing in an omnibus volume.

Kurtz must face the wrath of "Little Skag" Farino, the local Mafia don, and his vengeful sister Angelina while trying to track down a serial killer.

Der Mordversuch zweier russischer Killer auf den US-Unfallspezialisten Dr. Minor misslingt. Fortan steht ihm die attraktive Sydney als Leibwächterin zur Seite, die einem unerhörten Versicherungsbetrug auf der Spur ist.

Raul Endymion est né sur la planète Hypérion à l'ère de la Pax. Il n'a pas accepté le cruciforme, ce qui le voue à une mort définitive. Mais voici qu'il est exécuté (à l'âge de 27 ans) et se réveille vivant... Pour le vieux poète Martin Silenus, auteur des Cantos inachevés, le jeune homme est marqué par le destin : à lui de retrouver la petite Enée, disparue à l'âge de douze ans dans l'un des Tombeaux du Temps, de la protéger de la Pax, et finalement de renverser la puissance de l'Eglise. Un programme d'autant plus difficile que la Pax se sait menacée : quand Enée sortira des Tombeaux du Temps, trente mille gardes suisses se tiennent prêts à l'intercepter. Pour l'aider à fuir, Endymion aura le Vaisseau du Consul, mais la Pax est prête à les poursuivre, et les voyages d'Enée et d'Endymion ne sont pas près de finir.