Song of Kali

Dan Simmons

Sep 2008 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

Calcutta, a monstrous city of immense slums, disease and misery, is clasped in the foetid embrace of an ancient cult. At its decaying core is the Goddess Kali: the dark mother of pain, four-armed and eternal, her song the sound of death and destruction. Robert Luczak has been hired by a New York magazine to find a noted Indian poet who has reappeared, under strange circumstances, years after he was thought dead. But nothing is simple in Calcutta, and before long Luczak's routine assignment turns into a nightmare ... it is rumoured that the poet has been brought back to life, in a bloody and grisly ceremony of human sacrifice.

Winner of the World Fantasy Award for best novel, 1986

Ratings and reviews

One that you can't put down.. immense for a first novel.. Simmons is a favourite author

About the author

Dan Simmons won the World Fantasy Award for his first novel, SONG OF KALI,. inspired by his travels in India. In the 1990s he rewrote the SF rulebook with his Hyperion Cantos quartet. As well as horror and aSF, Simmons writes fantasy and thriller. Alongside his writing career he maintains a career as a college lecturer in English Literature in the USA.