According to his obituary, Dan’s critically acclaimed four-part science fiction classic, the Hyperion Cantos, began as an epic tale told to his students each day of the school year.

Dan Simmons, the Hugo Award-winning writer of "Hyperion" and many more novels and short-story collections, has died at 77.

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