Dan Simmons gave sci-fi fans some of the biggest, boldest stories ever put on the page, including Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, and The Terror. His books weren’t small. They were dense, strange, ambitious, and completely their own thing.
With news of Simmons’ recent passing at 77 (via X), many readers have been revisiting his work and remembering just how much ground he covered as a writer. From space opera to historical horror, he never stayed in one lane for long.
And over the years, Hollywood definitely noticed. More than once, studios tried to turn his novels into movies. Some got surprisingly close. Some had major names attached. But not…