The Abominable: A Novel

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Books by Dan Simmons

The Abominable

Darwin’s Blade

The Crook Factory

Flashback

Black Hills

Drood

The Terror

Olympos

Hard as Nails

Ilium

Worlds Enough & Time

Hard Freeze

Hardcase

A Winter Haunting

The Rise of Endymion

Endymion

Fires of Eden

Lovedeath

Summer Sketches

Children of the Night

The Hollow Man

Summer of Night

Prayers to Broken Stones

The Fall of Hyperion

Hyperion

Carrion Comfort

Phases of Gravity

Song of Kali

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The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

Copyright © 2013 by Dan Simmons

Author photograph by Karen Simmons

Cover design by Allison J. Warner

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