Black Hills, Dan Simmons
Black Hills, Dan Simmons
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Black Hills
A Novel

Author: Dan Simmons

Narrator: Erik Davies, Michael McConnohie

Unabridged: 20 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/24/2010

Synopsis

When Paha Sapa, a young Sioux warrior, "counts coup" on General George Armstrong Custer as Custer lies dying on the battlefield at the Little Bighorn, the legendary general's ghost enters him - and his voice will speak to him for the rest of his event-filled life.

Seamlessly weaving together the stories of Paha Sapa, Custer, and the American West, Dan Simmons depicts a tumultuous time in the history of both Native and white Americans. Haunted by Custer's ghost, and also by his ability to see into the memories and futures of legendary men like Sioux war-chief Crazy Horse, Paha Sapa's long life is driven by a dramatic vision he experienced as a boy in his people's sacred Black Hills. In August of 1936, a dynamite worker on the massive Mount Rushmore project, Paha Sapa plans to silence his ghost forever and reclaim his people's legacy-on the very day FDR comes to Mount Rushmore to dedicate the face.

About Dan Simmons

DAN SIMMONS is a recipient of numerous major international awards, including the Hugo Award, World Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. He is widely considered to be one of the premier multiple-genre fiction writers in the world. His most recent novels include the New York Times bestsellers The Terror and Drood, as well as Black Hills. He lives along the Front Range in Colorado and has never grown tired of the views.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on March 18, 2010

When will Dan Simmons come up with some original ideas? This latest is about a Lakota (Sioux) Indian named Paha Sapa (which means Black Hills) who has the psychic ability to read a person’s memories and get a glimpse of their future by touching them. After trying to count coup on a dying soldier at......more

Goodreads review by Aaron on April 21, 2015

The beauty of Dan Simmons is how well he transcends genre. Not content to just be a science-fiction novelist, or a horror novelist, or a crime novelist, or a historical ficiton novelist, he does a bit of dabbling in all of those genres. And that's the thing: he doesn't just dabble. He kicks each gen......more

Goodreads review by 11811 (Eleven) on February 06, 2017

I'm not sure why I finished listening to this but every time I thought I was at a dead end it would turn back onto Fascination Street. (Maybe not the same street The Cure sang about. That would require further tiresome research.) I love Simmons but, like his genres, my ratings are all over the place.......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on July 16, 2020

It's been almost a full year since I've read my first Simmons novel, Summer of Night. Black Hills will mark my seventh Simmons read. Contrary to popular opinion, this one ranks as one of my favorites by him. I can easily see why people would think that this is boring, and for a number of reasons. F......more

Goodreads review by Jim on April 14, 2025

5 STARS. It helped my enjoyment of this novel that I was staying in and traveling around the Black Hills while reading this novel. I strongly identified with the main character, Paha Sapa ("Black Hills"), a Lakota who was named for the sacred land of the Lakota. He has a strong connection to that l......more

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