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Dan Simmons je americký spisovatel science fiction a hororu známý zejména svým románem Hyperion a jeho pokračováními Pád Hyperionu, Endymion a Vzestup Endymionu. Od konce 90. let napsal také několik mainstreamových a detektivních románů.

Roku 1971 dostudoval angličtinu na univerzitě v St. Louis, poté 18 let vyučoval na základních školách, poslední čtyři roky se věnoval zvláště nadaným dětem. Spisovatelem na plný úvazek je od roku 1987, první práce mu byla otištěna 15. února 1982 – v den, kdy se mu narodila dcera Jane. S ní a svou ženou Kathryn žije v Longmontu ve státě Colorado. Wikipedia  

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“My own guess is that it’s a myth fueled by the same hunger for superstitious verities that drives other religions.”

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Dan Simmons kniha The Fall of Hyperion

Zdroj: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 11 (p. 91)

“Almost everything interesting in the human experience is the result of an individual experiencing, experimenting, explaining, and sharing,” said my young friend. “A hive mind would be the ancient television broadcasts, or life at the height of the datasphere…consensual idiocy.”

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Dan Simmons kniha The Rise of Endymion

Zdroj: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 21 (p. 464)

“It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.”

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Dan Simmons kniha Hyperion

Zdroj: Hyperion

“Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.”

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Dan Simmons kniha Hyperion

Zdroj: Endymion (1996), Chapter 44 (p. 449)
Zdroj: Hyperion
Kontext: “Humanity has evolved—as far as it has evolved,” continued the old priest, “with no thanks to its predecessors or itself. Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.”
“Empathy,” Aenea said softly.

“In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.”

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Dan Simmons kniha The Fall of Hyperion

Varianta: Sol remembered the dream, remembered his daughter’s hug, and realized that in the end—when all else is dust—loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave.
Zdroj: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 30 (p. 242)

“In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.”

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Dan Simmons kniha Hyperion

Zdroj: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 6 (p. 431)

“In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.”

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Dan Simmons kniha Hyperion

Zdroj: Hyperion

“There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.”

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Dan Simmons kniha Hyperion

Zdroj: Hyperion

“I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.”

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Dan Simmons kniha Endymion

Zdroj: Endymion

“Words are the only bullets in truth’s bandolier. And poets are the snipers.”

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Dan Simmons kniha Hyperion

Zdroj: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 192)

“Mobs have passions, not brains.”

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Dan Simmons kniha The Fall of Hyperion

Zdroj: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 32 (p. 266)

“Its hard to die. Harder to live”

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Dan Simmons kniha The Fall of Hyperion

Zdroj: The Fall of Hyperion

“Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.”

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Dan Simmons kniha The Terror

Zdroj: The Terror

“Belief in one’s identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one’s immortality…and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.”

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Dan Simmons kniha Hyperion

Zdroj: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 186)

“Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion”

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Dan Simmons kniha Hyperion

Zdroj: Hyperion

“We are all eaters of souls.”

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Dan Simmons kniha The Terror

Zdroj: The Terror

“The lieutenant took his time scanning their visa chips, letting them wait in the drizzle, occasionally making a comment with the idle arrogance common to such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.”

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Dan Simmons kniha Hyperion

Zdroj: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 2 (p. 105)

“Sol realized what he had known and forgotten about very small communities: they were frequently annoying, always parochial, sometimes prying on a one-to-one level, but never had they subscribed to the vicious legacy of the so-called “public’s right to know.””

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Dan Simmons kniha Hyperion

Zdroj: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 4 (p. 287)

“In the beginning was the Word.
In the end…past honor, past life, past caring…
In the end will be the Word.”

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Dan Simmons kniha Hyperion

Zdroj: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 233)

“I now understand the need for faith—pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith—as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.”

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Dan Simmons kniha Hyperion

Zdroj: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 1 (p. 90)

“I thought—To lose all this forever?
And I hallucinated Aenea’s voice saying To lose all this forever is the essence of being human, my love.”

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Dan Simmons kniha The Rise of Endymion

Zdroj: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 10 (p. 163)

“It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.”

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Dan Simmons kniha Hyperion

Zdroj: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 6 (p. 472)

“I am of no faith,” said Aenea. “If one defines faith as belief in the supernatural.”

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Dan Simmons kniha The Rise of Endymion

Zdroj: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 19 (p. 371)

“Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.”

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Dan Simmons kniha Hyperion

Zdroj: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 191)

“Information is always to be treasured, Raul. It is behind only love and honesty in a person’s attempt to understand the universe.”

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Dan Simmons kniha Endymion

Zdroj: Endymion (1996), Chapter 25 (p. 198)

“I wish we had the technology to fight God on an equal basis,” he said in low, tight tones. “To beard him in his den. To fight back for all of the injustices heaped on humanity. To allow him to alter his smug arrogance or be blown to hell.”

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Dan Simmons kniha The Fall of Hyperion

Zdroj: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 29 (pp. 226-227)

“It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war.”

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Dan Simmons kniha The Fall of Hyperion

Zdroj: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 7 (p. 51)

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