Books by Dan Simmons

6. Dan Simmons, Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion .  I’m not sure these are important science fiction, but they sure hold your interest.

6. Dan Simmons, Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion .  I’m not sure these are important science fiction, but they sure hold your interest.

Science fiction has been treading water since the 1960s.  Since that time its most glorious achievements have been on the screen, not on the printed page.  There are some excellent individual books, such as Eon or Hyperion , but the genre is mostly retreads.  Nor do I think much of attempts to cross science fiction with "serious fiction," whether it is coming from Philip K. Dick or Doris Lessing.  Yes the idea is cool but the execution is usually quite flawed.