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RIP Dan Simmons (April 4, 1948 – February 21, 2026). Author of my favourite ever science fiction book series, the Hyperion Cantos.

#Dan Simmons #hyperion #hyperion cantos #the shrike

Who up feeling the first stirrings of a familiar dark Irish anger.

#every time Ireland is mentioned in the terror my ears perk up like a dog #the terror #Dan Simmons #francis crozier #ireland

Sundogs my beloved

#the terror #the terror amc #dan simmons #art #illustration #digital art #sardine's

Midnight Pals: Pope business

William Peter Blatty: OMG did you guys hear Poe: what? Blatty: the society of st. pius X has schismed from the mother church! Blatty: this could be the biggest interdoctrinal ecumenitestimal since the integral convergence of the helgrimite blasphemy at the diet of dendronal in 1536!! Poe: King: Lovecraft: Koontz: Barker:

Blatty: this is like when the blessed council of garbanza rectified the confluence of the discalced silurians in 1232! Poe: King: Koontz: Lovecraft: Barker: Blatty: c'mon it's so obvious! Blatty: it's like a one to one correlation! Poe: King: Koontz: Lovecraft: Barker: Blatty: i don't know how you can't see the parallels

Blatty: this is just like during the Third Reconciliation of the Last of the Meketrex Supplicants, when many Shubs and Zulls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of a Sloar that day, I can tell you! Blatty: don't act so confused Blatty: you all should have learned about that in CCD

Society of st pius x: anyway you're not even our real pope sospx: it's not like we even have to listen to you sospx: you're not the boss of us sospx: hey pope leo does this bug you sospx: we're not touching youuu ha ha

sospx: so anyway you're not the boss of us sospx: you can't tell us what to do sospx: i mean ha ha like what are you even going to do sospx: like excommunicate us or something ha ha Pope Leo: yeah, you're excommunicated sospx: [surprised pikachu face]

sospx: y sospx: you can't do that! sospx: the last pope would NEVER have done that!! Pope Leo: yeah i ain't da last pope Pope Leo: i'm from Chicago

Pope Leo: see these society of st pius x jabronis wanna play hardball? Pope Leo: i just ask myself, what would Gandalf do Pope Leo: would he just let the necromancer secretly regain his orc-hold strength at dol Guldur after the downfall of númenor? Pope Leo: and i thought Pope Leo: no he wouldn't! JRR Tolkien: finally! someone who understands my work!

sospx: no fair!! no fair!! sospx: we shouldn't have to listen to the pope to be catholic! sospx: that's not how it works! Pope Leo: eyyy who here's got da papal infallibility? sospx: [mumbles] Pope Leo: what's dat? speak up sospx: you Pope Leo: you're damn right it's me

Pope Leo: you're all schismed now Pope Leo: an if you wanna come back, you gotta write "i am very very sorry for rejecting Vatican II" a hundred million times Pope Leo: IN INK sospx: nooooo we can't not be mad about Vatican ii sospx: you don't understanddddd sospx: we really hate jewsss Pope Leo: ey then you can all get fucked Pope Leo: i'm da Chicago pope!

Pope Leo: that's right Pope Leo: i'm the Chicago pope Pope Leo: i don't care who's toes i step on Pope Leo: i'm gonna make a lotta enemies Pope Leo: like when theoden of rohan lead the rohirrim at the battle of the pelennor fields to save minas tiri Pope Leo: yeah it's just like dat

Blatty: enemies? who could possibly hate my beloved Chicago pope?! [meanwhile] Peter Thiel: [sweating like a baked ham, eyes ping ponging] the Chicago pope is in league with the gay trans catboy jews of the Chinese communist party and the space mutants , in conjunction with the RAND corporation, to elect greta Thunberg as Chicago antichrist Dan Simmons: sounds legit

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This is a weird pivot from your post but Tchaikovsky is one of my favorite scifi writers and since you have impeccable taste, I must ask you for recommendations on scifi books/authors, if you don't mind.

First of all, thank you for recognizing that my taste in sci-fi is elite.

But seriously, yes, I LOVE Adrian Tchaikovsky. His books somehow manage to feel massive and cosmic while still feeling deeply personal underneath all of the existential horror and giant concepts, which is one of my favorite things in sci-fi. If you have not read the rest of the Children of Time series yet, absolutely do that because Children of Ruin genuinely unsettled me in ways I was not emotionally prepared for.

I know people are probably tired of hearing me talk about Andy Weir at this point, but The Martian and Project Hail Mary are both such fun reads if you enjoy survival sci-fi and realistic science. I also absolutely adore Martha Wells and The Murderbot Diaries because Murderbot might genuinely be one of the most relatable protagonists ever written. It is basically just a little machine trying to avoid eye contact and interact with people.

I also really loved Ann Leckie and the Imperial Radch books. The way those novels handle identity, consciousness, and perspective permanently altered my brain chemistry a little bit. The same goes for Lois McMaster Bujold and the Vorkosigan Saga because the character writing in those books is genuinely incredible.

I also love Connie Willis and the Oxford Time Travel books because she somehow managed to make time travel stories feel emotional and deeply human instead of gimmicky.

Some older sci-fi that I love includes The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky, and Ubik by Philip K. Dick.

I am also a huge fan of Frank Herbert and Dune because the worldbuilding in that series is absolutely insane. James S. A. Corey and Leviathan Wakes are amazing too. And Jeff VanderMeer made me feel completely insane in the best possible way with Annihilation.

I have also always been a huge Dan Simmons fan and recently read Hyperion and LOVED it. I would probably sacrifice another human being to the Shrike if it meant Dan Simmons would go back to sci-fi and somehow capture lightning in a bottle like that again.

Sci-fi is such a fun genre because you can go from deeply philosophical identity horror to giant bugs in space, and somehow all of it still counts.