the library ladder | Tier Ranking Every Dan Simmons Novel - Horror & Science Fiction | SPOILER-FREE @thelibraryladder | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Dan Simmons has published 25 novels and three collections of short fiction over the past 40 years. In this video, I briefly review and tier rank 14 of his novels that are typically categorized as horror or science fiction from the best to the worst. In an upcoming video, I'll cover the rest of his novels and short fiction.

The other two parts of my Dan Simmons overview:
Part 1: Why he's essential reading - youtu.be/fp8SPQ-d4fc
Part 3: Tier ranking his literary fiction, crime thrillers, historical fiction & short fiction - youtu.be/eEPw4qFFu3w

0:30 Overview
2:22 Roadmap to rankings
3:03 Horror genre / Song of Kali
6:55 Carrion Comfort
10:59 Summer of Night
13:37 Seasons of Horror
15:04 Children of the Night
16:06 Fires of Eden
17:42 A Winter Haunting
20:04 Science fiction / Hyperion Cantos & Ilium duology
23:26 The Hollow Man
25:39 Flashback

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Links to @WordsinTime videos on the Hyperion Cantos and Ilium duology:
Hyperion Cantos playlist - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ1VUUH6rQdwlieUZFDQDvuxqr__ORT89
Ilium review - youtube.com/watch?v=LkkknbjNi40


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