Dan Simmons
2026
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Match Book reads this as adventurous in feel and moderate, sitting at the heavy literary end of the scale. It resolves resolved happy.
Its central concerns are faith, power and politics, survival.
Set future in fictional world, told third person multiple. On reach it lands at well known — worth knowing if you're deliberately hunting hidden gems rather than the books everyone has already read.
At 785 pages it's a real commitment.