About the book: year / The first story written by Dan, “The River Styx Flows Backward,” was born on February 15, 1982, the same day he was born daughter, Jane Catherine. Therefore, in the future, he said, he always felt the same close connection between his literature and his life. Simmons became a professional writer in 1987, and then settled in Front Range in Colorado - in the same city where he taught for 14 years - with his wife, Karen, his daughter, Jane, (when she returns home from Hamilton College), and their dog, Fergie, a rare breed of Pembroke Welsh Corgi in Russia. He writes mostly at Windwalker, their mountain estate, a small cabin at 8,400 feet in the Rocky Mountains, not far from the National Park. An 8-foot sculpture of the Shrike—the spiky, frightening character from the four Hyperion and Endymion novels—that was made by his former student and now friend, Clee Richison, now stands there nearby, guarding the lodge. Dan is one of the few writers who writes almost in all genres of literature - fantasy, epic science fiction, horror, suspense novels, is the author of historical books, detective stories and mainstream fiction. His works have been published in 27 countries. Many of Simmons’ novels may be filmed in the near future, and now he is already in negotiations for the film adaptation of “The Bell for Ham,” “Darwin’s Razor,” four “Hyperion” novels, and the story “The River Styx Flows Backwards.” He also wrote an original script based on his novel “Phases of Gravity”, created two teleplays for the low-budget series “Monsters” and adapted the script based on the novel “Children of the Night” in collaboration with European director Robert Seagle, with whom he hopes to film his other novel — “Fierce Winter.” And the first film of the pair, “Ilion/Olympus,” was generally scheduled for release in 2005, but never came out. In 1995, Dan’s alma mater, Wabash College, awarded him an honorary doctorate for his great contributions to education and literature. Contents:1. Dark Game of Death (Translation: Alexander Kirichenko)2. Abomination (Translation: Yuri Goldberg)3. The joy of carrion (Translation: S. Roy, M. Lanina)4. Phases of gravity (Translation: Anna Petrushina, Alexey Kruglov)5. Darwin's razor (Translation: I. Nepochatova)6. Two-faced demon Mara. Death in love (Translation: M. Kurennaya)7. Drood, or the Man in Black (Translation: M. Kurennaya)8. The Bell according to Ham (Translation: R. Voloshin)9. Bonfires of Eden 10. Prayers to the broken stone (Translation: Alexander Kirichenko, D. Kalnitskaya, Alexander Guzman)11. Song of Kali (Translation: Vladimir Malakhov)12. Terror (Translation: Maria Kurennaya)13. Flashback (Translation: Grigory Krylov)14. Black Hills (Translation: Grigory Krylov)