Order of Dan Simmons Books
Dan Simmons is an American author of science fiction, horror, fantasy and mystery/thriller novels. He is best known for his Hyperion Cantos series. Dan got his Master’s in Education in 1971 and worked in the field for 18 years. Once he stopped teaching, he began his writing career.
Dan Simmons started his career in 1982 with the short story The River Styx Runs Upstream. His first novel was Song of Kali in 1985, which won the World Fantasy Award. Below is a list of Dan Simmons’ books in order of when they were first released:
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Publication Order of Hyperion Cantos Books
| Hyperion | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Fall of Hyperion | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Endymion | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Rise of Endymion | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Orphans of the Helix | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Summer Of Night/Seasons Of Horror Books
| Summer of Night | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Children of the Night | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Winter Haunting | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Joe Kurtz Books
| Hardcase | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hard Freeze | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hard as Nails | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Ilium Books
| Ilium | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Olympos | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Fifth Heart Books
| The Fifth Heart | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Song of Kali | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Carrion Comfort | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Phases of Gravity | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Hollow Man | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fires of Eden | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Crook Factory | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Darwin's Blade | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Terror | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Muse of Fire | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Drood | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Black Hills | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Flashback | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Abominable | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Omega Canyon | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Metastasis | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Banished Dreams | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Entropy's Bed at Midnight | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| This Year's Class Picture | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Death in Bangkok | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Guiding Nose of Ulfant Banderoz | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Prayers to Broken Stones | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Summer Sketches | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lovedeath | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Worlds Enough & Time | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Going After the Rubber Chicken | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Orbit Science Fiction Yearbooks Books
(with Brian W. Aldiss, Howard Waldrop, Felix C. Gotschalk, Lisa Tuttle, Lucius Shepard, Jonathan Carroll, Kate Wilhelm, Richard Kadrey, Marta Randall, John Clute, David S. Garnett)
| The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Second Annual Collection | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Third Annual Collection | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Still Dead | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Omni Best Science Fiction Two | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Omni Visions Two | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Seventh Annual Collection | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Far Horizons | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 15 | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Space Opera Renaissance | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Space Opera | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Freak Show | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Parallàxis: A twist in the mind | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Flight or Fright | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Blood Is Not Enough | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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i read stephen king books, and now i found another auther i like. ty i will start looking for mr dan simmons. the terror is GOOD. gb dempsey 1/20/2022