Dan Simmons (born 1948 in Peoria Illinois) Dan Simmons, whose major stress lies definitely on Science Fiction and Fantasy, is an author who is extremely disputed. On the one hand he wrote highlights of horror literature, on the other hand some books are simply secular and the impression can be stated that Simmons carries to writing souls in his chest. For his best works he was rewared with numerous awards. With his Hyperion-Cycle he earned a great community of fans in the Sci-Fi-scene.
Bibliography The End of Hyperion The Rise of Endymion Song of Kali Hyperion Phases of Gravity Children of the Night Carrion Comfort The Hollow-Man Lovedeath Summer of Night Prayers to broken Stones
Taken exemplarily: Kraft des Bösen (Heyne-Verlag, Band-Nr. 41/46 1989) Willi, Nina and Melanie are socalled mind-vampires, that commend over an enormous psychic strengh and have the ability to achieve total control over a person's mind, and also eat this person's life energy. They live on it. They play a game since the beginning of this century, a game where they compete with each other who is the best in bringing more people in more spectacular ways from life to death. One day the game is over, starting to become serious, when they start fighting with each other and they find another group of humans, a very influential group of humans, that commends over the same abilities and has the same goal: to take over the control over humankind and play their games with lives. This leads to a confrontation where all of humanity is in danger. Natalie Preston, whose father was victim of those "vampires", and the psychiatrist Saul Laski that hunts for Willi since his time in a KZ where Willi was a SS-man, try to kill those human mutants together.