![]() Normally I'd have thrown a fit over this instead I placed an order at my local indy for the next three volumes in the series. Because of the intricacy and beauty of the story, I forgive it for violating my own personal pet peeve: it doesn't wrap up the end of the story. I somehow missed hearing of this author and this book in my long life as a science fiction reader. ![]() On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, there waits a creature. ![]() Each of the seven stories is a harrowing history of that person's past and experience with the planet Hyperion, each story filling in detail about the tragic and baffling history of this mysterious planet. Hyperion is the first book in the Hyperion Cantos quartet by Dan Simmons. ![]() Their goal, alarmingly, is an ancient complex of caves where they expect to meet their deaths at the hands (figurative, see the cover art) of an all-powerful being that is reputed to be traveling backwards in time. It follows the classic format of a group of pilgrims each telling a story on the way to their goal. Strong, robust writing and a complex tale never let up through this book. Hyperion by Dan Simmons Anthony G Williams dan simmons Anthony G Williams Greybeard Joined Messages 1,225 Location UK 1 I kept reading about how good the two Hyperion books were so I eventually bought an omnibus edition including both Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion. ![]()
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