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Carrion Comfort
Carrion Comfort is a science fiction/horror novel by American writer Dan Simmons, published in 1989 in hard cover by Dark Harvest and in 1990 in paperback by Warner Books. It won the Bram Stoker Award, the Locus Poll Award for Best Horror Novel, and the August Derleth Award for Best Novel. It is based on a novella of the same title, published in 1983 in the magazine "Omni". The first half of the novella makes up chapter 1 of the novel, while the second half
a futuristic retelling of Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet".
- The "Hyperion Cantos" take their titles from poems by the English Romantic John Keats.
- The title of "Carrion Comfort", as well as many of its themes, derives from the poem "Carrion Comfort" by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
- In "The Fall of Hyperion", John Keats himself appears as one of the main characters, with references to characters in "Forbidden Planet" and "The Time Machine".