Dan Simmons has died

Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea both loved science fiction, and I do, too, but science fiction writers  still don't get as much respect as other fiction writers; Dan Simmons, who wrote the Hyperion Cantos novels, did not get an obituary in the New York Times after he died on Feb. 21. So I am telling you about it here.

The Hyperion books are really good; the Ilium/Olympos books also are well known, but I was less impressed with them. Simmons also  wrote horror and other work. Here is an obituary from Newsweek.