Hyperion
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Hyperion
Legend has it that the Shrike will grant one pilgrim's wish, but the others will perish…
In a distant world called Hyperion, lying on the very edge of the Hegemony and its laws, a priest, a soldier, a poet, a detective, a consul and a scholar with an infant land in the company of a Templar treeship's star captain. This unlikely group of pilgrims sets off for the mysterious Time Tombs to face the bloody gaze of the Lord of Pain's ruby eyes and its hundreds of deadly blades. Each member of the expedition is driven by their own hidden motivations, which surface as they take turns telling each other their stories. With them, the true nature and immense significance of their journey is slowly revealed, a journey that could result in an interstellar war with billions of human lives at stake. A confusing conflict between the empire's FORCE, hordes of barbaric Ousters and feuding factions of artificial intelligences is about to break out – and the setting for the first clashes is to be this inhospitable planet, home of the legendary Shrike…
The first book in the Hyperion Cantos takes place in the distant future, when humanity is colonising a universe inhabited by alien races. This now classic work of world science fiction was ingeniously structured by the author in the manner of The Canterbury Tales, in order to introduce the distinctive heroes and their unique world with the contribution of half a dozen variously told stories.
What they wrote about the book:
Let's be straight: this book is a masterpiece!
- SFBook
One of the most complex and beautiful universes in the history of the sci-fi genre.
- Fantasya.cz
Dan Simmons
The American author was born in Peoria, Illinois. He studied English at the University of St. Louis, then taught in primary schools for eighteen years, and for the last four years of his teaching practice he devoted himself to gifted children. Since 1987, he has been a full-time writer. His first published work was the short story The River Styx Runs Upstream (1982) in Twilight Zone magazine (1982). His debut novel was the horror story Song of Kali. The best known of his works is the novel Hyperion and its sequels The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, and The Rise of Endymion. Besides science fiction (Ilium, Olympos, Flashback) and horror (Carrion Comfort, Drood, Summer of Night, Fires of Eden, Children of the Night, etc.), he also writes detective stories (Hardcase, Hard Freeze, Hard as Nails, The Fifth Heart) and novels outside genre definitions (Black Hills, The Crook Factory). The AMC television network made a successful series based on his historical novel with horror elements, The Terror, produced by Ridley Scott. A second series is in preparation.
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