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Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77 (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 days ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/books@lemmy.world

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[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

From what I heard his later books are the issue like flashback:

!a poet who fled Israel after 6 million Jews were murdered by the Muslim "Global Caliphate" — seem to have been created for the sole purpose of explaining why the left wing has destroyed America. !<

https://www.npr.org/2011/07/28/137621172/one-rant-too-many-politics-mar-simmons-dystopia

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 days ago

Yes, this is exactly why I added the thing about me not speaking for all his books.
(This was also a recent TIL of mine. It also sounds like a poorly thought out plot tbh, it just seems that it will be riddled with logical plot holes, which I really hate bcs lazy writing. Or motivated otherwise.)