Dan Simmons Books in Order

At the secret Los Alamos test site, German physicist Paul Haber helps build the atomic bomb to defeat the Nazis—until proof that his family is alive in Europe forces him to consider spying for the enemy to save them.

In 1893, a suicidal Henry James is pulled into an unlikely partnership with Sherlock Holmes, investigating socialite Clover Adams's suspicious "suicide" and a wider conspiracy that reaches from Washington salons to the Chicago World's Fair.

In 1925, three climbers hired by a grieving aristocrat to find her missing son on Everest discover that someone—or something—stalks them on the icy slopes, turning their secret recovery mission into a fight for survival.

Set in Jack Vance's Dying Earth, diabolist Shrue sets out with dubious allies to seize the legendary library of wizard Ulfant Banderoz, guided only by the dead mage's severed, enchanted nose and pursued by rival sorcerers and monsters.

In a collapsed near-future United States where most citizens escape into a memory drug called flashback, disgraced ex-cop Nick Bottom is hired to solve an old murder and forced to confront both his grief and his broken country.

As a boy at Little Bighorn, Paha Sapa touches the dying General Custer and carries the general's restless voice inside him for decades, witnessing the transformation of the American West and planning one final act at Mount Rushmore.

Narrated by Wilkie Collins, this sprawling Gothic mystery imagines Charles Dickens's last years after a traumatic train wreck, as a sinister figure called Drood leads both writers into London's underworld, opium dreams, and possibly madness.

In a distant future where humanity survives as a subject species, a ragtag Shakespearean troupe called the Earth's Men tours alien worlds, only to discover that their performances may determine whether human beings are spared or erased.

Trapped in Arctic ice with failing supplies, the crews of HMS Erebus and Terror battle starvation, mutiny, and an impossible predator stalking them across the frozen wastes in this blend of historical adventure and supernatural horror.

This sequel to Ilium weaves together the fallout from the Trojan War on Mars, the awakening of near-immortal humans on Earth, and a desperate moravec mission as godlike forces threaten to unravel the entire solar system.

On a far-future Mars, posthuman "gods" restage the Trojan War while a resurrected Homeric scholar, complacent humans on a transformed Earth, and curious robot "moravecs" from Jupiter's moons slowly realize they're all caught in the same vast plot.

Recovering from a bullet to the head, Joe Kurtz is pulled into overlapping gang wars, corrupt politics, and old grudges, fighting to stay alive as everyone in Buffalo seems to want him dead or useful.

A collection of five substantial novellas—ranging from a haunted teacher's search for a lost student to a post-Hyperion space adventure—that showcase Simmons's blend of big speculative ideas and close, character-driven storytelling.

Still under parole and still making enemies, Joe Kurtz juggles multiple contracts—from a crime family, a vengeful widow, and a federal agent—while tracking a cunning serial killer who turns frozen Buffalo winters into his hunting ground.

Years after surviving that terrible summer, writer Dale Stewart returns alone to a deserted farmhouse near Elm Haven to face his wrecked life, buried childhood memories, and a new haunting that may be more dangerous than the past.

Fresh out of prison after avenging his partner's murder, ex-PI Joe Kurtz takes a job for a Buffalo crime boss, plunging into mob feuds, double-crosses, and a brutal investigation that tests how far he's willing to go.

Accident-reconstruction expert and Vietnam veteran Darwin Minor investigates a string of spectacular car crashes that look staged yet leave everyone dead, drawing him into a deadly battle with a criminal network that uses "accidents" as weapons.

FBI agent Joe Lucas is sent to Cuba in 1942 to watch over Ernest Hemingway's ramshackle "Crook Factory" spy ring, only to be pulled into real wartime intrigue involving rival intelligence services and Nazi agents.

Far beyond former human space, the generation ship Helix answers a mysterious distress call from a ring of living trees and its besieged Ouster colony, drawing its crew into an ethical dilemma that echoes Hyperion's cosmic questions.

In the conclusion of the Hyperion saga, Raul Endymion's far-flung journey with Aenea reaches its reckoning as they challenge the theocratic empire ruling human space and force a final choice about faith, free will, and the future of humanity.

Centuries after the Fall, ex-soldier Raul Endymion is sprung from execution to rescue Aenea, a mysterious young girl emerging from the Time Tombs, and escort her across a changed galaxy while a resurgent Church hunts them.

On modern-day Hawaii, a historian investigating sabotage at a luxury resort uncovers an old family journal and a chain of supernatural events reaching back to the islands' turbulent past and a visit from young Mark Twain.

Five long, dark novellas link love and death in very different settings, from Bangkok's shadowy streets to the trenches of World War I, blending erotic obsession, supernatural horror, and intimate character studies.

In a ruined world overrun by the dead, fourth-grade teacher Ms. Geiss keeps a classroom of child zombies contained and "learning," clinging to routine and memory even as the barricades around her school begin to fail.

When his telepathic wife dies, Jeremy Bremen loses the one person who could shield him from the constant roar of other people's thoughts, and his grief-stricken flight across America turns into a harrowing, hallucinatory road trip.

A slim nonfiction volume of travel essays and vignettes in which Simmons revisits landscapes that shaped him—from Midwestern towns to Western mountains—and reflects on how setting and memory feed directly into his fiction.

Immunologist Kate Neuman adopts a Romanian orphan whose strange blood chemistry could cure deadly diseases, only to have him stolen by an ancient vampire clan, forcing her and priest Mike O'Rourke into a brutal rescue mission.

In the summer of 1960, a group of boys in Elm Haven, Illinois slowly realize their school hides an ancient, murderous power, and band together to confront the creeping horror threatening their families and town.

A short nonfiction collection of three guest-of-honor speeches in which Simmons talks about writing, teaching, and fandom, mixing personal stories, craft advice, and wry observations from life on the convention circuit.

Picking up where Hyperion ends, this volume follows a new narrator drawn into the pilgrims' fate as war erupts across the Hegemony, the TechnoCore pursues its own agenda, and the truth behind the Shrike begins to surface.

An insurance investigator who has seen every kind of fatal accident struggles to protect his young daughter from the world's randomness, even as one winter night forces him to confront how little control he really has.

This chapbook gathers dream sequences cut from Summer of Night, offering eerie glimpses of Elm Haven's children as they sleep, and deepening the sense of unease behind the novel's small-town horror.

Former Apollo astronaut Richard Baedecker drifts through a failing marriage and career until a chance encounter sends him on a cross-country journey, forcing him to reassess the moon landing, lost family, and what still matters on Earth.

On the eve of interstellar war, seven strangers are sent on a desperate pilgrimage to the Time Tombs on the planet Hyperion, each with a secret past and a personal reason to confront the deadly Shrike.

Across decades, three ruthless "mind vampires" use a psychic Ability to hijack other people's bodies and wills, while a handful of survivors hunts them, turning global politics and private vendettas into a horrifying game.

After surviving a near-fatal crash, Louis Steig begins seeing grotesque "cancer vampires" feeding on the sick and realizes he may be the only one who can stop them, at the cost of his own life.

Sent to Calcutta to verify the return of a supposedly dead poet, editor Robert Luczak and his family are drawn into a nightmare of cults, corruption, and possible resurrection surrounding the dark goddess Kali.