Born on this day – Dan Simmons:

Dan Simmons

Writer

April 4, 1948 – February 21, 2026

Credits:

Books:

A Winter Haunting (2002); Adventures of the Batman (1995); Angels of Darkness (1995); Banished Dreams (1990); Between Time and Terror (1990); Black Hills (2010); Blood Is Not Enough (1989); Bloodsuckers (2010); Carrion Comfort (1989); Children of the Night (1992); Dark Visions (1989); Darker Masques (2002); Darkness (2010); Darwin's Blade (2000); Drood (2009); Endymion (1996); Entropy's Bed at Midnight (1990); Far Horizons (1999); Fires of Eden (1994); Flashback (2011); Flesh Creepers (1990); Flight or Fright (2018); Freak Show (1992); Going After The Rubber Chicken (1991); Hard as Nails (2003); Hard Freeze (2002); Hardcase (2001); High Fantastic (1987); Horrorscape 2 (2005); Hyperion (1989); Ilium (2003); LoveDeath (1993); Masques III (1989); Masques IV (1991); Midnight Graffiti (1992); Muse of Fire (2008); Night Visions 5 (1988); Obsessions (1991); Olympos (2005); Omni Visions Two (1994); Phases of Gravity (1989); Prayers to Broken Stones (1990); Redshift (2001); Rivals of Dracula (1996); Science Fiction: The Best of 2001 (2002); Song of Kali (1985); Songs of the Dying Earth (2009); Southern Blood (1997); Speaking of the Fantastic (2005); Still Dead (1992); Summer of Night (1991); Summer Sketches (1992); The Abominable (2013); The Crook Factory (1999); The Earth Strikes Back (1994); The Fall of Hyperion (1990); The Fifth Heart (2015); The Further Adventures of the Joker (1990); The Guiding Nose of Ulfant Banderoz (2013); The Hollow Man (1992); The Living Dead (2008); The New Space Opera (2007); The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 (1989); The Rise of Endymion (1997); The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984); The Space Opera Renaissance (2006); The Terror (2007); The Ultimate Dracula (1991); The Vampire Archives (2009); The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Seventh Annual Collection (1994); The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Third Annual Collection (1990); The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (1989); The Year's Best Science Fiction Eleventh Annual Collection (1993); The Year's Best Science Fiction First Annual Collection (1984); The Year's Best Science Fiction Nineteenth Annual Collection (2002); The Year's Best Science Fiction Thirteenth Annual Collection (1996); This Year's Class Picture (1992); Vampires: The Greatest Stories (1991); Worlds Enough and Time (2002); Year's Best SF 6 (2001).

Television & video game:

Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008); Monsters (1990); Prisoners of Gravity (1991–1994); Star Control / Video Game (1990); The Terror (2018).