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 | birth_place = [[Peoria, Illinois]], U.S.
 | occupation = Novelist
 | education = [[Wabash College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Washington University in St. Louis]] ([[Master of Education|MEd]])
 | period = 1983–present
 | genre = [[Science fiction]], [[Horror fiction|horror]], [[fantasy]]
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 | notableworks = ''[[Song of Kali]]'' (1985)<br /> ''[[Hyperion (Simmons novel)|Hyperion]]'' (1989)<br /> ''[[Carrion Comfort]]'' (1989)<br /> ''[[The Terror (novel)|The Terror]]'' (2007)
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'''Dan Simmons''' (born April 4, 1948) is an American [[science fiction]] and [[Horror fiction|horror]] writer. He is the author of the [[Hyperion Cantos]] and the [[Ilium/Olympos]] cycles, among other works that span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy [[genres]], sometimes within a single novel. Simmons's genre-intermingling'' [[Song of Kali]]'' (1985) won the [[World Fantasy Award]].<ref name="WWE-1986" /> He also writes mysteries and [[thriller (genre)|thrillers]], some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz.

==Biography==
Born in [[Peoria, Illinois]], Simmons started writing stories as a child with the goal of mesmerizing his audience with his story telling.<ref>{{Citation |last=alex@bookbanter.net |title=BookBanter Episode 004 - An Interview With Dan Simmons |url=http://archive.org/details/BookBanterEpisode004-AnInterviewWithDanSimmons |access-date=2024-04-24}}</ref> Simmons received a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in English from [[Wabash College]] in 1970 and, in 1971, a [[Masters in Education]] from [[Washington University in St. Louis]].<ref name="biog">{{cite web | url=http://dansimmons.com/about/bio.htm | title=About Dan: Biographic Sketch | website=dansimmons.com | access-date=14 June 2018 | archive-date=4 June 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180604180901/http://dansimmons.com/about/bio.htm | url-status=dead}}</ref> 

He soon started writing short stories, although his career did not take off until 1982, when, through [[Harlan Ellison]]'s help, Simmons was invited to the Milford workshop, which Ellison considered to be "the best SF writing workshop in the world".<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title="Something Only Your Soul Knew" – Wabash Magazine |url=https://blog.wabash.edu/magazine/2020/01/09/something-only-your-soul-knew/ |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=blog.wabash.edu}}</ref> Simmons considered Ellison as a mentor, friend, and the reason he pursued writing full-time.<ref name=":1" /> Simmons' short story "[[Prayers to Broken Stones#"The River Styx Runs Upstream"|The River Styx Runs Upstream]]" was published and awarded first prize in a ''[[Twilight Zone Magazine]]'' story competition, and he was taken on as a client by Ellison's agent, Richard Curtis. Simmons's first novel, ''Song of Kali'', was released in 1985.<ref name="biog" />  

He worked in elementary education until 1989.<ref name="biog" />

He lives in [[Longmont, Colorado]] {{As of|2007|lc=y}}.<ref>{{cite news |last=Evans |first=Clay |date=February 7, 2007 |title=Myth and madness in the frozen north |work=[[Daily Camera|Boulder Daily Camera]] |publisher= |url=http://www.dailycamera.com/archivesearch/ci_13073336 |access-date=December 2, 2023}}</ref>

==Horror fiction==
''[[Summer of Night]]'' (1991) recounts the childhood of a group of pre-teens who band together in the 1960s, to defeat a centuries-old evil that terrorizes their hometown of Elm Haven, [[Illinois]]. The novel, which was praised by [[Stephen King]] in a cover blurb, is similar to King's ''[[It (novel)|It]]'' (1986) in its focus on small-town life, the corruption of innocence, the return of an ancient evil, and the responsibility for others that emerges with the transition from youth to adulthood.

In the sequel to ''Summer of Night'', ''[[A Winter Haunting]]'' (2002), Dale Stewart (one of the first book's protagonists and now an adult), revisits his boyhood home to come to grips with mysteries that have disrupted his adult life.

Between the publication of ''Summer of Night'' (1991) and ''A Winter Haunting'' (2002), several additional characters from ''Summer of Night'' appeared in: ''Children of the Night'' (1992), a loose sequel to ''Summer of Night'', which features Mike O'Rourke, now much older and a Roman Catholic priest, who is sent on a mission to investigate bizarre events in a European city; ''[[Fires of Eden (novel)|Fires of Eden]]'' (1994), in which the adult Cordie Cooke appears; and ''Darwin's Blade'' (2000), a thriller in which Dale's younger brother, Lawrence Stewart, appears as a minor character.<ref>{{cite news|work=Publishers Weekly|title=Review: ''Darwin's Blade''|date=October 30, 2000 |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-380-97369-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Simmons, Dan|title=Darwin's Blade|publisher=William Morrow|date=2000|isbn=978-0-380-97369-9|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/darwinsblade00simm}}</ref>

After ''[[Summer of Night]]'', Simmons focused on writing science fiction until the 2007 work of [[historical fiction]] and horror, ''[[The Terror (novel)|The Terror]]''. His 2009 book ''[[Drood (novel)|Drood]]'' is based on the last years of [[Charles Dickens]]' life leading up to the writing of ''[[The Mystery of Edwin Drood]]'', which Dickens had partially completed at the time of his death.<ref name="st090215" />

==Historical fiction==
''[[The Terror (novel)|The Terror]]'' (2007) crosses the bridge between horror and historical fiction. It is a fictionalized account of Sir [[John Franklin]] and [[Franklin's lost expedition|his expedition]] to find the [[Northwest Passage]]. The two ships, {{HMS|Erebus|1826|6}} and {{HMS|Terror|1813|6}}, become icebound the first winter, and the captains and crew struggle to survive while being stalked across an Arctic landscape by a monster. The novel was adapted into a [[The Terror (TV series)|ten-part television series]].

''The Abominable'' (2013) recounts a mid-1920s attempt on [[Mount Everest]] by five climbers—two British, one French, one Sherpa, and one American (the narrator)—to recover the body of a cousin of one of the British characters.<ref>{{cite news|title=Review: 'The Abominable' by Dan Simmons|date=October 20, 2013|work=Chicago Tribune|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-1020-abominable-dan-simmons-20131020-story.html|author=Robbins, Michael}}</ref>

==Literary references==
Many of Simmons's works have strong ties with classic literature. For example:
* His 1989 novel ''Hyperion'', winner of Hugo and [[Locus Award]]s for the best science fiction novel,<ref name="WWE-1990" /> deals with a space war and is inspired in its structure by [[Giovanni Boccaccio|Boccaccio's]] ''[[Decameron]]'' and [[Chaucer]]'s ''[[Canterbury Tales]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Miller |first1=T. S. |title=Flying Chaucers, Insectile Ecclesiasts, and Pilgrims Through Space and Time: The Science Fiction Chaucer |journal=The Chaucer Review |date=2013 |volume=48 |issue=2 |doi=10.5325/chaucerrev.48.2.0129 |s2cid=161558250 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/522478 |access-date=26 May 2020|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* The ''[[Hyperion Cantos]]'' take their titles from poems by the British Romantic [[John Keats]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-keats|title=John Keats|date=2018-09-06|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en-us|others=Poetry Foundation|access-date=2018-09-07}}</ref>
* The title of ''[[Carrion Comfort]]'', as well as many of its themes, derives from the poem "Carrion Comfort" by [[Gerard Manley Hopkins]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Willems |first=Brian |date=2009 |title=Hopkins and Heidegger |location=London |publisher=Continuum |isbn=9781441169563}}</ref>
* [[The Hollow Man (1992 novel)|''The Hollow Man'']] (1992) is a novel influenced by Dante's ''Inferno'' and [[T. S. Eliot]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1992/09/27/science-fiction-and-fantasy/aaff7d02-0c27-41b9-b659-9d7423de442f/?noredirect=on|title=The Hollow Man|last=Feeley|first=Gregory|date=27 September 1992|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>
* "The Great Lover" (1993) is a short story inspired by the [[World War I]] [[War Poets]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1YAQCZ5NyjUC&q=%22The+Great+Lover%22+by+%22Dan+Simmons%22+inspired+by+the+World+War+I+War+Poets&pg=PA73|title=News of the Black Feast and Other Random Reviews|last=Stableford|first=Brian|date=2009-03-01|publisher=Wildside Press LLC|isbn=9781434403360|pages=73{{en dash}}74|language=en}}</ref>
* Simmons's collection of short stories, ''Worlds Enough & Time'', takes its name from the first line of the poem "[[His Coy Mistress|To His Coy Mistress]]" by English poet [[Andrew Marvell]]: "Had we but world enough, and time"<ref>Marvell, A. (1981). "To his coy mistress." The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved on 17 October 2018 from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44688/to-his-coy-mistress</ref>
* The detective in ''Flashback'' is named [[Nick Bottom]] after a character in Shakespeare's ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-dan-simmons-20110807-story.html|title=Book review: 'Flashback' by Dan Simmons|last=Owchar|first=Nick|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=7 August 2011|access-date=2018-12-11}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

=== Novels ===
====Series====
=====[[Hyperion Cantos]]=====
# ''[[Hyperion (Simmons novel)|Hyperion]]'' (1989) – {{ISBN|978-0553283686}}
# ''[[The Fall of Hyperion (novel)|The Fall of Hyperion]]'' (1990) – {{ISBN|978-0553288209}}
# ''[[Endymion (Simmons novel)|Endymion]]'' (1996) – {{ISBN|978-3453315174}}
# ''[[The Rise of Endymion]]'' (1997) – {{ISBN|978-0747258933}}

=====Related short fiction=====
* "[[Prayers to Broken Stones#"Remembering Siri"|Remembering Siri]]" (1983) -  '''(Novelette)''', prequel to ''Hyperion''
* "[[Prayers to Broken Stones#"The Death of the Centaur"|The Death of the Centaur]]" (1990) - '''(Novelette)'''
* "[[Orphans of the Helix]]" (1999) - '''(Novelette)''', sequel to ''The Rise of Endymion''

=====Seasons of Horror=====
# ''[[Summer of Night]]'' (1991) – {{ISBN|978-0312550677}}
# ''Children of the Night'' (1992) – {{ISBN|978-1250009852}}
# ''[[Fires of Eden (novel)|Fires of Eden]]'' (1994) – {{ISBN|978-0061056147}}
# ''Darwin's Blade''  (2000) – {{ISBN|978-0380973699}}
# ''[[A Winter Haunting]]'' (2002) – {{ISBN|978-0380817160}}

=====Related=====
* ''Banished Dreams'' (1990), collects three prophetic dream sequences that were expurgated from the published edition of ''Summer of Night'', entitled "Dale's Dream", "Kevin's Dream" and "Mike's Dream"

=====Joe Kurtz=====
# ''[[Hardcase (novel)|Hardcase]]'' (2001) – {{ISBN|978-0312980160}}
# ''[[Hard Freeze (novel)|Hard Freeze]]'' (2002) – {{ISBN|978-0316213509}}
# ''[[Hard as Nails (novel)|Hard as Nails]]'' (2003) – {{ISBN|978-0312994686}}

=====''[[Ilium/Olympos]]''=====
# ''[[Ilium (novel)|Ilium]]'' (2003) – {{ISBN|978-0380817924}}
# ''[[Olympos (novel)|Olympos]]'' (2005) – {{ISBN|978-0380817931}}

====Standalone====
* ''[[Song of Kali]]'' (1985) – {{ISBN|978-0312944087}}
* ''[[Carrion Comfort]]'' (1989), expansion of the eponymous novelette published in ''Prayers to Broken Stones'' – {{ISBN|978-0913165386}}
* ''Phases of Gravity'' (1989) – {{ISBN|978-0553277647}}
* ''[[The Hollow Man (1992 novel)|The Hollow Man]]'' (1992) – {{ISBN|978-0935716641}}
* ''[[The Crook Factory]]'' (1999) – {{ISBN|978-0380973682}}
* ''[[The Terror (novel)|The Terror]]'' (2007) – {{ISBN|978-0316017442}}
* ''[[Drood (novel)|Drood]]'' (2009) – {{ISBN|978-0316007023}}
* ''Black Hills'' (2010) – {{ISBN|978-1849160902}}
* ''Flashback'' (2011) – {{ISBN|978-0316006965}}
* ''The Abominable'' (2013)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/dan-simmons-the-abominable-cover-art-reveal |title=Dan Simmons The Abominable cover art reveal! |work=Upcoming4.me |date=14 March 2013 |access-date=14 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130319034502/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/dan-simmons-the-abominable-cover-art-reveal |archive-date=March 19, 2013 |df=mdy}}</ref> – {{ISBN|978-0751550283}}
* ''The Fifth Heart'' (2015)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kernelscorner.com/2014/03/dans-simmons-to-release-fifth-heart-his.html |title=Dan Simmons To Release 'The Fifth Heart', His Next Book After 'The Abominable' |work=Kernel's Corner |date=10 March 2014 |access-date=6 April 2014}}</ref> – {{ISBN|978-0316198820}}
* ''Omega Canyon'' (unpublished, original publication date 2025)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dan-simmons/omega-canyon/9780316198912/|title=Omega Canyon |work=Hachette Book Group |date=14 March 2025 |isbn=978-0-316-19891-2 |access-date=14 March 2025}}</ref> – {{ISBN|978-0316198912}}

=== Short stories ===
====Collections====
* ''[[Prayers to Broken Stones]]'' (1990), six short stories and seven novellas/novelettes:
*: "The River Styx Runs Upstream", "Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams" (novelette), "Vanni Fucci Is Alive and Well and Living in Hell", "Vexed to Nightmare by a Rocking Cradle", "Remembering Siri" (novelette of ''Hyperion Cantos'' series), "Metastasis", "The Offering" (novelette), "E-Ticket to 'Namland" AKA "E-Ticket to Namland" (novelette), "Iverson's Pits" (novella), "Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites", "The Death of the Centaur" (novelette of ''Hyperion Cantos'' series), "Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds", "Carrion Comfort" (novelette)
* ''Lovedeath'' (1993), collection of five novelettes and novellas 
*: "Entropy's Bed at Midnight" (novelette), "Dying in Bangkok" AKA "Death in Bangkok" (novelette), "Sleeping with Teeth Women" (novella), "Flashback" (novelette), "The Great Lover" (novella)
* ''Worlds Enough & Time'' (2002), collection of five novellas/novelettes:
*: "Looking for Kelly Dahl" (novella), "[[Orphans of the Helix]]" (novelette from ''Hyperion Cantos'' series), "The Ninth of Av" (novella), "On K2 with Kanakaredes" (novelette), "The End of Gravity" (novella)

====Uncollected short fiction====
* "Presents of Mind" (1986, with [[Edward Bryant]], [[Steve Rasnic Tem]] and [[Connie Willis]])
* "Dying Is Easy, Comedy Is Hard" (1990, with [[Edward Bryant]]) - '''(Novelette)'''
* "The Counselor" (1991) - '''(Novelette)'''
* "All Dracula's Children" (1991) - '''(Novelette)'''
* "My Private Memoirs of the Hoffer Stigmata Pandemic" (1991)
* "This Year's Class Picture" (1992) (Appeared in ''The Living Dead'', an anthology edited by [[John Joseph Adams]])
* "Elm Haven, IL" (1992) - '''(Novelette)''', from ''Freak Show'' series
* "One Small Step for Max" (1992)
* "My Copsa Micas" (1994) - '''(Novelette)'''
* ''Madame Bovary, C'est Moi'' (2000)
* ''[[Muse of Fire]]'' (2007) - '''(Novella)'''
* ''The Guiding Nose of Ulfänt Banderōz'' (2009) - '''(Novella)''' published as a [[chapbook]] and set in [[Jack Vance]]'s [[Dying Earth]] setting
* ''The Final Pogrom'' (2024)

=== Poems ===
* ''Ruby/Gem S.T.R.E.A.M.M. Poetry'' (2011)

=== Non-fiction ===
* ''Going After the Rubber Chicken'' (1991), a collection of three convention guest-of-honor speeches by Simmons
* ''Summer Sketches'' (1992), Simmons reveals how his travel experiences have allowed him to instill a feeling of place in readers of his fiction
* ''Negative Spaces: Two talks'' (1999), about science fiction

==Adaptations==

In January 2004, it was announced that the screenplay he wrote for his novels ''Ilium'' and ''Olympos'' would be made into a film by [[Digital Domain]] and Barnet Bain Films, with Simmons acting as executive producer. ''Ilium'' is described as an "epic tale that spans 5,000 years and sweeps across the entire solar system, including themes and characters from [[Homer]]'s [[The Iliad|''Iliad'']] and [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s [[The Tempest (play)|''The Tempest'']]."<ref>{{cite web|author1=Marc Graser|author2=Jonathan Bing|title='Ilium,' 'Olympos' optioned for pic|url=https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/ilium-olympos-optioned-for-pic-1117898065/|date=8 January 2004|website=Variety|access-date=29 April 2019}}</ref>

In 2008, [[Guillermo del Toro]] was scheduled to direct a film adaptation of ''Drood'' for [[Universal Pictures]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Fleming|first=Michael Jr.|url=https://variety.com/2008/film/features/guillermo-del-toro-booked-thru-2017-1117991560/|title=Guillermo Del Toro booked thru 2017|date=3 September 2008|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|access-date=25 December 2017}}</ref> As of December 2017, the project is still listed as "in development".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1290396/|title=Drood|website=IMDB.com|publisher=Internet Movie Database|access-date=25 December 2017}}</ref>

In 2009, [[Scott Derrickson]] was set to direct ''Hyperion Cantos'' for [[Warner Bros.]] and Graham King, with Trevor Sands penning a script adapting ''[[Hyperion (Simmons novel)|Hyperion]]'' and ''[[The Fall of Hyperion (novel)|The Fall of Hyperion]]'' into one film.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fleming|first=Michael|title=Scott Derrickson to direct 'Hyperion'|url=https://variety.com/2009/film/markets-festivals/scott-derrickson-to-direct-hyperion-1117999283/|website=[[Variety.com|Variety]]|access-date=2012-12-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722053326/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117999283?refCatId=13|archive-date=July 22, 2015|date=Jan 29, 2009|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In 2011, actor [[Bradley Cooper]] expressed interest in taking over the adaptation.<ref>{{cite web|last=Falconer|first=Robert|title=Bradley Cooper Anxious to Adapt Dan Simmons's Hyperion for the Screen|website=Cinemaspy.|url=http://www.cinemaspy.com/movie-news/bradley-cooper-anxious-to-adapt-dan-simmonss-hyperion-for-the-screen-7564|access-date=2012-12-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120703144151/http://www.cinemaspy.com/movie-news/bradley-cooper-anxious-to-adapt-dan-simmonss-hyperion-for-the-screen-7564/|archive-date=July 3, 2012|date=May 27, 2011|url-status=dead|df=mdy}}</ref> In 2015, it was announced that TV channel [[Syfy]] would produce a miniseries based on the Hyperion Cantos with the involvement of Cooper and King.<ref>{{cite web|last=Goldberg|first=Lesley |title=Bradley Cooper, Graham King, Todd Phillips Adapting Dan Simmons' 'Hyperion' for Syfy|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/bradley-cooper-graham-king-todd-801537|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|access-date=2015-08-05|date=June 10, 2015}}</ref> As of May 2017, the project was still "in development" at Syfy.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fowler|first=Matt|title=Syfy Reboot Includes Greenlit Krypton Series, George R.R. Martin's Nightflyers and More|url=http://in.ign.com/tv/108057/news/syfy-reboot-includes-greenlit-krypton-series-george-rr-marti|access-date=28 May 2017|publisher=IGN News|date=12 May 2017}}</ref> On November 1, 2021, Cooper and King restarted the feature film adaptation at Warner Bros., with [[Tom Spezialy]] set to write the script.<ref>{{cite web|last=D'Alessandro|first=Anthony|title=Bradley Cooper Launches Production Label; Sets 'Hyperion' At Warner Bros With Graham King|url=https://deadline.com/2021/11/bradley-cooper-set-hyperion-at-warner-bros-with-graham-king-1234865881/|date=November 1, 2021|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|access-date=January 5, 2022}}</ref>

''[[The Terror (novel)|The Terror]]'' (2007) was adapted in 2018 as an [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]] [[The Terror (TV series)|10-episode miniseries]] and received generally positive reviews upon release.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_terror/s01/|title=''The Terror'': Season 1 (2018)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-terror|title=''The Terror'' Reviews|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref>

==Awards==
===Wins===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Work !! Year & Award!! Category!! Ref.
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[Song of Kali]]''
|1986 [[World Fantasy Award]]
|Novel
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |''[[Carrion Comfort]]''
|1989 [[Bram Stoker Award]]
|Novel
|
|-
|1990 Locus Award
|Horror Novel
|
|-
|1990 [[British Fantasy Award]]
|August Derleth Award
|
|-
| rowspan="5" |''[[Hyperion (Simmons novel)|Hyperion]]''
|1990 [[Locus Award]]
|SF Novel
|<ref name="eja4J">{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Dan_Simmons | title=Sfadb : Dan Simmons Awards }}</ref>
|-
|1990 [[Hugo Award]]
|Novel
|
|-
|1991 [[Premio Ignotus]]
|Foreign Novel
|
|-
|1995 [[Seiun Award]]
|Translated Long Story
|
|-
|1998 [[Tähtivaeltaja Award]]
|
|-
| rowspan="4" |''[[The Fall of Hyperion (novel)|The Fall of Hyperion]]''
|1991 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|
|-
|1991 SF Chronicle Award
|Novel
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Science_Fiction_Chronicle_Readers_Poll_1991 | title=Sfadb: Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll 1991 }}</ref>
|-
|1991 [[BSFA Award]]
|Novel
|
|-
|1996 Seiun Award
|Translated Long Work
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Entropy's Bed at Midnight''
|1991 Locus Award
|Novelette
|
|-
|1991 Readercon Awards
|Short Work
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Readercon_Awards_1991 | title=Sfadb: Readercon Awards 1991 }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[Prayers to Broken Stones]]''
|1991 Bram Stoker Award
|Fiction Collection
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[Summer of Night]]''
|1992 Locus Award
|Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''All Dracula's Children''
|1992 Locus Award
|Novelette
|
|-
| rowspan="6" |''This Year's Class Picture''
|1992 Bram Stoker Award
|Short Fiction
|
|-
|1993 World Fantasy Award
|Short Fiction
|
|-
|1993 [[Theodore Sturgeon Award]]
|Short Science Fiction
|
|-
|1999 Seiun Award
|Translated Short Story
|
|-
|2009 [[FantLab's Book of the Year Award]]
|Novella/Short Story
|-
|2010 [[Nocte Award]]
(listed as ''La foto de la clase de este año'')
|Foreign Short Story
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Children of the Night''
|1993 Locus Award
|Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel	
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1993 | title=Sfadb: Locus Awards 1993 }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Dying in Bangkok''
|1993 Bram Stoker Award
|Novelette
|
|-
|1994 Locus Award
|Novelette
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[Fires of Eden (novel)|Fires of Eden]]''
|1995 Locus Award
|Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''The Great Lover''
|1996 [[Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire]]
|Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |''[[The Rise of Endymion]]''
|1998 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|
|-
|1998 SF Chronicle Award
|Novel
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Science_Fiction_Chronicle_Readers_Poll_1998 | title=Sfadb: Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll 1998 }}</ref>
|-
|1999 Prix Zone
|Foreign SF Novel
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bdfi.net/prix/prix.php?id=ozone | title=Pages prix }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[Orphans of the Helix]]''
|2000 Locus Award
|Novella
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2000 | title=Sfadb: Locus Awards 2000 }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[The Crook Factory]]''
|2000 Colorado Book Award
|Literary Fiction
|<ref> https://coloradohumanities.org/programs/colorado-book-awards/ </ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" |''[[A Winter Haunting]]''
|2002 [[International Horror Guild Award]]
|Novel
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://horroraward.org/prevrec.html | title=International Horror Guild }}</ref>
|-
|2003 Colorado Book Award
|Fiction
|<ref> https://coloradohumanities.org/programs/colorado-book-awards/ </ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" |''[[Ilium (novel)|Ilium]]''
|2004 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?23854 | title=Title: Ilium }}</ref>
|-
|2004 SF Site Readers Poll
|SF/Fantasy Book
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/SF_Site_Readers_Poll_2004 | title=Sfadb: SF Site Readers Poll 2004 }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" |''[[The Terror (novel)|The Terror]]''
|2007 International Horror Guild Award
|Novel
|
|-
|2008 FantLab's Book of the Year Award
|Novel/Collection
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[Drood (novel)|Drood]]''
|2009 Black Quill Awards
|Dark Novel Genre of the Year (Readers' Choice)
|<ref> http://www.darkscribemagazine.com/3rd-annual-winners/ </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |
|2013 [[World Horror Convention Grand Master Award]]
|
|
|-
|}

===Nominations===
Dan Simmons has been nominated on numerous occasions in a range of categories for his fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Society Award, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.<ref>[http://www.worldswithoutend.com/author.asp?ID=38#books ''Works in the WWEnd Database''] for Dan Simmons.</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Work !! Year & Award!! Category!! Ref.
|-
| rowspan="2" |''The River Styx Runs Upstream	''
|1983 [[Locus Award]]
|Short Story
|<ref name="eja4J" />
|-
|2012 FantLab's Book of the Year Award
|Translated Novella or Short Story
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Remembering Siri''
|1984 Locus Award
|Novelette
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[Song of Kali]]''
|1986 Locus Award
|First Novel
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Metastasis''
|1989 [[World Fantasy Award]]
|Short Fiction
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Phases of Gravity''
|1990 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|
|-
|1995 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
|Prix spécial
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+1995 | title=1995 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" |''Prayers To Broken Stones''
Collection
|1990 [[Bram Stoker Award]]
|Fiction Collection
|
|-
|1990 Locus Award
|Collection
|
|-
|1991 World Fantasy Award
|Collection
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Entropy's Bed at Midnight''
|1990 Bram Stoker Award
|Long Fiction
|
|-
|2012 FantLab's Book of the Year Award
|Translated Novella or Short Story
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |''[[Hyperion (Simmons novel)|Hyperion]]''
|1990 [[BFSA Award]]
|Novel
|
|-
|1990 SF Chronicle
|Novel
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?36+1990 | title=1990 SF Chronicle Award }}</ref>
|-
|1993 [[Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire]]
|Foreign Novel
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[Carrion Comfort]]''
|1990 World Fantasy Award
|Novel
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''[[The Fall of Hyperion (novel)|The Fall of Hyperion]]''
|1991 [[Hugo Award]]
|Novel
|
|-
|1991 [[Nebula Award]]
|Novel
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |''[[Summer of Night]]''
|1991 Bram Stoker Award
|Novel
|
|-
|1992 [[British Fantasy Award]]
|August Derleth Award
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/British_Fantasy_Awards_1992 | title=Sfadb: British Fantasy Awards 1992 }}</ref>
|-
|1993 [[Kurd Laßwitz Award]]
|Foreign Work
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64+1993 | title=1993 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Children of the Night''
|1992 Bram Stoker Award
|Novel
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |''Lovedeath''
|1993 Bram Stoker Award
|Fiction Collection
|
|-
|1994 Locus Award
|Collection
|
|-
|1996 [[Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire]]
|Foreign Novel
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+1996 | title=1996 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" |''[[The Hollow Man (1992 novel)|The Hollow Man]]''
|1993 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|
|-
|1995 Kurd Laßwitz Award
|Foreign Work
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64+1995 | title=1995 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" |''Flashback''
|1993 Bram Stoker Award
|Novella
|
|-
|1994 Locus Award
|Novella
|
|-
|2011 [[Goodreads Choice Awards]]
|Science Fiction
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-science-fiction-books-2011 | title=Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Science Fiction! }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Dying in Bangkok''
|1994 World Fantasy Award
|Short Fiction
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Looking for Kelly Dahl''
|1996 Locus Award
|Novella
|
|-
|1998 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
|Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+1998 | title=1998 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" |''[[Endymion (Simmons novel)|Endymion]]''
|1997 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|
|-
|1998 [[Premio Ignotus]]
|Foreign Novel
|
|-
|1998 Kurd Laßwitz Award
|Foreign Work
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64+1998 | title=1998 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="4" |''[[The Rise of Endymion]]''
|1998 Hugo Award
|Novel
|
|-
|1999 Premio Ignotus
|Foreign Novel
|
|-
|2000 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
|Foreign Novel
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+2000 | title=2000 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire }}</ref>
|-
|2000 Kurd Laßwitz Award
|Foreign Work
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64+2000 | title=2000 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[Endymion (Simmons novel)|Endymion]]'' & ''[[The Rise of Endymion]]''
|2000 Seiun Award
|Translated Long Work
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Madame Bovary, c'est moi''
|2001 Locus Award
|Short Story
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[Orphans of the Helix]]''
|2001 Premio Ignotus
|Foreign Story
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''On K2 with Kanakaredes''
|2002 Locus Award
|Novelette
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Worlds Enough & Time''
|2003 Locus Award
|Collection
|
|-
|2005 Kurd Laßwitz Award
|Foreign Work
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[A Winter Haunting]]''
|2003 Locus Award
|Fantasy Novel
|
|-
| rowspan="5" |''[[Ilium (novel)|Ilium]]''
|2004 Hugo Award
|Novel
|
|-
|2005 Premio Ignotus
|Foreign Novel
|
|-
|2005 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
|Foreign Novel
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+2005 | title=2005 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire }}</ref>
|-
|2005 Kurd Laßwitz Award
|Foreign Work
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64+2005 | title=2005 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis }}</ref>
|-
|2007 Seiun Award
|Translated Long Work
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''[[Olympos (novel)|Olympos]]''
|2006 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|
|-
|2008 Seiun Award
|Translated Long Work
|
|-
| rowspan="5" |''[[The Terror (novel)|The Terror]]''
|2007 Black Quill Award
|Dark Genre Novel of the Year
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.librarything.com/award/1323.0.0.2007/Black-Quill-Award-2007 | title=Black Quill Award &#124; 2007 &#124; Awards and Honors &#124; LibraryThing }}</ref>
|-
|2007 Bram Stoker Award
|Novel
|
|-
|2008 [[Shirley Jackson Award]]
|Novel
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Shirley_Jackson_Awards_2008 | title=Sfadb: Shirley Jackson Awards 2008 }}</ref>
|-
|2008 British Fantasy Award
|August Derleth Award
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/British_Fantasy_Awards_2008 | title=Sfadb: British Fantasy Awards 2008 }}</ref>
|-
|2009 Premio Ignotus
|Foreign Novel
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Muse of Fire''
|2008 Locus Award
|Novella
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |''[[Drood (novel)|Drood]]''
|2010 Locus Award
|Fantasy Novel
|
|-
|2011 [[FantLab's Book of the Year Award]]
|Translated Novel/Collection
|
|-
|2012 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
|Foreign Novel
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+2012 | title=2012 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |''The Guiding Nose of Ulfant Banderoz''
|2017 Seiun Award
|Translated Short Story
|
|-
|}

===Finalists===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year  !! Award !! Category !!  Work !! Ref.
|-
| 1992||[[Arthur C. Clarke Award]]||Science Fiction Novel||''Hyperion Cantos''||
|-
|}

===Other===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year  !! Award !! Category !!  Work !! Result !! Ref.
|-
| 1999||SF Site Readers Poll ||SF/Fantasy Book||''The Rise of Endymion''||{{Nominated|6th Place}}||<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/SF_Site_Readers_Poll_1999 | title=Sfadb: SF Site Readers Poll 1999 }}</ref>
|-
| 2006||SF Site Readers Poll ||SF/Fantasy Book||''Olympos''||{{Nominated|9th Place}}||<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/SF_Site_Readers_Poll_2006 | title=Sfadb: SF Site Readers Poll 2006 }}</ref>
|-
| 2008||SF Site Readers Poll ||SF/Fantasy Book||''The Terror''||{{Nominated|9th Place}}||<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/SF_Site_Readers_Poll_2008 | title=Sfadb: SF Site Readers Poll 2008 }}</ref>
|-
| 2014||RUSA CODES Reading List||Historical Fiction||''The Abominable''||{{sho}}||<ref> https://rusaupdate.org/awards/the-reading-list/ </ref>
|}

==References==
<references>
<ref name="st090215">{{cite news |first=Mary Ann |last=Gwinn |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2008737263_drood15.html |title=Q&A: Dan Simmons, author of "Drood" |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |date=February 15, 2009}}</ref>
<ref name="WWE-1986">{{cite web |url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1986 |title = 1986 Award Winners & Nominees |work = Worlds Without End |access-date=2009-07-16}}</ref>
<ref name="WWE-1990">{{cite web |url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1990 |title = 1990 Award Winners & Nominees |work = Worlds Without End |access-date=2009-07-16}}</ref>
</references>

==External links==
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{{Wikiquote}}
* [[iarchive:BookBanterEpisode004-AnInterviewWithDanSimmons|Interview by BookBanter]]
* [http://www.worldswithoutend.com/author.asp?ID=38 Dan Simmons] on Worlds Without End
* {{ISFDB name|170}}
* {{IBList |type=author|id=327|name=Dan Simmons}}
* {{OL author}}
* {{LCAuth|n85026246|Dan Simmons|2|}}

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