Everyone going into this book should know it's Part 1 of a 2-part tale, and this part ends abruptly. If you know a lot of classic or canonical literature, you'd recognize the subtle and not so subtle nods to famous dead authors and artists scattered, not without purpose, throughout this book. And ...
A series of stories, woven together into a science fiction epic. As one who does not particularly care for SF in general, I was more than pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this one from Dan Simmons. The dude can flat out write.
Well written and engrossing epic space opera, but irritatingly it ends on a cliffhanger. It's good enough that I'll buy the sequel, but I'm more than a little cranky about it. I don't expect I'll be buying any more Simmons' books; his readers deserve more respect.
like: OMG! 400 pages and I'm stumpted as far as who/what/why goes! great book - it's been a while since I've experience such... suspense and mystery... also: you'd think there is a limited number of futures these sci-fi types can come up with. well - it seems there isn't oO
(read originally in 1993).The details of the technology or the scientific credibility in a SF Book are not the main flaw for SF writing.I am a computer scientist and I read the Hyperion Saga long ago, but the more persistent elements that these books left in my memory are not related to the quality ...
A very good science fiction novel. It is much more literary than you would expect for SF. It has a lot of references to the Poet John Keats, but as well as that the structure which is a set of interrelated tales of a group of travelers on a pilgrimage directly harkens back to the Canterbury Tales....
Hyperion was so good that it did something odd to everything else I was reading. It didn't show those books up as lesser, it made everything else better as well. I'm not really sure how that happened. People had been raving about Hyperion for quite a while, and I'm glad I finally got around to readi...
This is one of those SF books that is highly acclaimed, seems to have been read by nearly every SF reader I know, and I have for some reason only just gotten around to it. Well, better late than never.I wasn't sure how much I would like this because I normally don't go for fat space operas with lots...
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