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Something Evil

Song of Kali

By Dan Simmons  

22 Oct, 2024

What's The Worst That Could Happen?

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Dan Simmons’ 1985 Song of Kali is a World-Fantasy-Award-winning horror novel.

Post‑9/11, Simmons outed himself as a virulent Islamophobe. Was this a reaction to second-hand trauma or did it bring out something that had been lurking there all along, unnoticed? Or did it cast light on something that had been obvious from the beginning? Consider Dan Simmon’s debut novel, Song of Kali.

Calcutta, city of pure, unredeemable evil!1

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