丹·西蒙斯（1948~ ）：美国最天才横溢的小说家，写遍奇幻、科幻、恐怖、推理、惊悚、历史、主流文学，任何类型，只要他一出手，必定叫好又叫座，捧回无数大奖，是名副其实的“跨界之王”。

奇幻小说《迦梨之歌》获得奇幻小说的最高奖项世界奇幻文学奖；恐怖小说《腐朽的慰藉》将恐怖小说界最重量级的三大奖项布兰姆?史托克奖、英伦奇幻奖和轨迹奖收入囊中；科幻小说《海伯利安》囊括全球所有科幻重要奖项，与《银河帝国》并称为科幻文学史上不可逾越的两座巅峰！

The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the universe that is his greatest triumph--the world of "Hyperion" and "The Fall ofHyperion" --with a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors. Dan Simmons's "Hyperion" was an immediate sensation on its first publication in 1989. This staggering multifaceted tale of the far future heralded the conquest of the science fiction field by a man who had already won the World Fantasy Award for his first novel ("Song of Kali") and had also published one of the most well-received horror novels in the field, "Carrion Comfort." "Hyperion" went on to win the Hugo Award as Best Novel, and it and its companion volume, "The Fall of Hyperion," took their rightful places in the science fiction pantheon of new classics. Now, six years later, Simmons returns to this richly imagined world of technological achievement, excitement, wonder and fear. "Endymion" is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror--an instant candidate for the field's highest honors.