Prayers to Broken Stones - Dan Simmons

Demonstrating the incredible breadth and power of Dan Simmons's writing, Prayers to Broken Stones is set in worlds of dark imagination that only the author of such award-winning novels as Carrion Comfort, Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion could envision.

Encounter an old man and a young boy for whom the ghosts of the civil war will not rest in peace... Driven mad by guilt, a scientist dooms himself with a final effort to administer poetic justice... Could the shadowy, deformed beings only half glimpsed by a coma patient be resposible for so much misery and death in our world...?

Ranging from the chill of deep space to a cold rising from an open grave, Prayers to Broken Stones is a transfixing collection of short fiction from a remarkable writer.

(paperback, 470 pages)