Worlds Enough & Time: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction - Paperback

from questbird

Five long-form tales from Dan Simmons. Two revisit old territory: 'Orphans of the Helix' is set in the Hyperion universe and, more interestingly, 'The Ninth of Av' is a prequel or a proto-part of Olympos (my favourite work by Mr Simmons, and the best of these tales). Three are singletons, but not...

from freddlerabbit

I am not much of a short story reader, but I was pleasantly surprised by this collection. Dan Simmons writes five stories, two of which are connected with the Hyperion universe and one with the Illium; speculative fiction is the right description, as they're not really science fiction. The storie...

from Karlstar

A great collection of fantasy, sci-fi and fiction. One of the better short story collections I've ever read.

from AltheaAnn

A collection of 5 "long short-stories" by Simmons, with introductions by the author.* "Looking for Kelly Dahl"I'd read this one before, I think in a "Year's Best SF" collection for 1996.It's a surreal but memorable story of a burned-out, alcoholic teacher, who's emotionally suffering from the dea...