The salt-and-pepper of his hair and beard seem at odds with his boyish smile.Īfter a tour of the house, the author leads us to a carriage house in back, where he d s most of his writing.
An avid outdoorsman of medium build, Simmons meets us on the sidewalk, smiling as he extends a paw-like hand in greeting. Simmons's hometown is cradled between two worlds: to the east, the urban sprawl of Denver to the west, the Rocky Mountains loom large. It is late morning when PW arrives at the author's residence, a turn-of-the-century, beautifully restored, two-story house in Longmont, Colo. Written in Simmons's beautiful, clear prose style, it is described as "a thriller and a black comedy"-and likely has publicists spinning in their cubicles. Darwin's Blade, Simmons's latest novel, out from Morrow, features Darwin "Dar" Minor, an accident investigator. The Crook Factory (Avon, 1999) was a bracing literary thriller, centered around Ernest Hemingway. More than 10 years and 15 books later, Simmons continues to defy categorization. That publishing triple-whammy set him up as a critical and popular success, but it also established him as a publicity department's nightmare: a prolific and popular novelist who refuses to be pigeon-holed. His first novel, Song of Kali (Tor), won a 1985 World Fantasy Award then, published back-to-back-to-back in 1989, came a mainstream novel about a middle-aged ex-astronaut ( Phases of Gravity, Bantam Spectra), a violent, epic-horror novel ( Carrion Comfort, Warner Books) and a classic of modern science fiction ( Hyperion, Bantam Spectra). What is Dan Simmons? Is he fish? Is he fowl? Or is he simply "good red herring"? Chances are the genre-defying writer of mainstream fiction, science fiction, horror and fantasy would appreciate the latter designation.
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