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Informationen zum Autor Dan Simmons is the Hugo Award-winning author of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion , and their sequels, Endymion and The Rise of Endymion . He has written the critically acclaimed suspense novels Darwin's Blade and The Crook Factory , as well as other highly respected works, including Summer of Night and its sequel A Winter Haunting, Song of Kali, Carrion Comfort, and Worlds Enough & Time . Simmons makes his home in Colorado. Klappentext An extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantalizing the mind and touching the soul. Now he offers us a superb quintet of novellas -- five dazzling masterworks of speculative fiction, including "Orphans of the Helix," his award-winning return to the Hyperion Universe -- that demonstrates the unique mastery, breathtaking invention, and flawless craftsmanship of one of contemporary fiction's true greats. Human colonists seeking something other than godhood encounter their long-lost "cousins"...and an ancient scourge. A devastated man in suicide's embrace is caught up in a bizarre cat-and-mouse game with a young woman possessing a world-ending power. The distant descendants of a once-oppressed people learn a chilling lesson about the persistence of the past. A terrifying ascent up the frigid, snow-swept slopes of K2 shatters preconceptions and reveals the true natures of four climbers, one of whom is not human. At the intersection of a grand past and a threadbare present, an aging American in Russia confronts his own mortality as he glimpses a wondrous future. Zusammenfassung An extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena! Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantalizing the mind and touching the soul. Now he offers us a superb quintet of novellas -- five dazzling masterworks of speculative fiction! including "Orphans of the Helix!" his award-winning return to the Hyperion Universe -- that demonstrates the unique mastery! breathtaking invention! and flawless craftsmanship of one of contemporary fiction's true greats. Human colonists seeking something other than godhood encounter their long-lost "cousins"...and an ancient scourge. A devastated man in suicide's embrace is caught up in a bizarre cat-and-mouse game with a young woman possessing a world-ending power. The distant descendants of a once-oppressed people learn a chilling lesson about the persistence of the past. A terrifying ascent up the frigid! snow-swept slopes of K2 shatters preconceptions and reveals the true natures of four climbers! one of whom is not human. At the intersection of a grand past and a threadbare present! an aging American in Russia confronts his own mortality as he glimpses a wondrous future. ...
