Editing Dan Simmons (section)

==Literary references==
Many of Simmons's works have strong ties with classic literature. For example:
* His 1989 novel ''Hyperion'', winner of Hugo and [[Locus Award]]s for the best science fiction novel,<ref name="WWE-1990" /> deals with a space war and is inspired in its structure by [[Giovanni Boccaccio|Boccaccio's]] ''[[Decameron]]'' and [[Chaucer]]'s ''[[Canterbury Tales]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Miller |first1=T. S. |title=Flying Chaucers, Insectile Ecclesiasts, and Pilgrims Through Space and Time: The Science Fiction Chaucer |journal=The Chaucer Review |date=2013 |volume=48 |issue=2 |doi=10.5325/chaucerrev.48.2.0129 |s2cid=161558250 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/522478 |access-date=26 May 2020}}</ref>
* The ''[[Hyperion Cantos]]'' take their titles from poems by the British Romantic [[John Keats]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-keats|title=John Keats|date=2018-09-06|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en-us|others=Poetry Foundation|access-date=2018-09-07}}</ref>
* The title of ''[[Carrion Comfort]]'', as well as many of its themes, derives from the poem "Carrion Comfort" by [[Gerard Manley Hopkins]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Willems |first=Brian |date=2009 |title=Hopkins and Heidegger |location=London |publisher=Continuum |isbn=9781441169563}}</ref>
* [[The Hollow Man (1992 novel)|''The Hollow Man'']] (1992) is a novel influenced by Dante's ''Inferno'' and [[T. S. Eliot]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1992/09/27/science-fiction-and-fantasy/aaff7d02-0c27-41b9-b659-9d7423de442f/?noredirect=on|title=The Hollow Man|last=Feeley|first=Gregory|date=27 September 1992|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>
* "The Great Lover" (1993) is a short story inspired by the [[World War I]] [[War Poets]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1YAQCZ5NyjUC&q=%22The+Great+Lover%22+by+%22Dan+Simmons%22+inspired+by+the+World+War+I+War+Poets&pg=PA73|title=News of the Black Feast and Other Random Reviews|last=Stableford|first=Brian|date=2009-03-01|publisher=Wildside Press LLC|isbn=9781434403360|pages=73{{en dash}}74|language=en}}</ref>
* Simmons's collection of short stories, ''Worlds Enough & Time'', takes its name from the first line of the poem "[[His Coy Mistress|To His Coy Mistress]]" by English poet [[Andrew Marvell]]: "Had we but world enough, and time"<ref>Marvell, A. (1981). "To his coy mistress." The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved on 17 October 2018 from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44688/to-his-coy-mistress</ref>
* The detective in ''Flashback'' is named [[Nick Bottom]] after a character in Shakespeare's ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-dan-simmons-20110807-story.html|title=Book review: 'Flashback' by Dan Simmons|last=Owchar|first=Nick|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=7 August 2011|access-date=2018-12-11}}</ref>