Hyperion is (somewhat disappointingly)the first book in a series. Seven Pilgrims must travel to the outback world of Hyperion in order to trek to the Time Tombs wherein lies the enigmatic and terrifying Shrike (who impales people on a great thorn tree). These pilgrims are all different but all shar...
In addition to the hard sf facets of this book, the writing invokes an atmosphere like a Dickens story that makes one feel like you have walked into a old time parlor with muted lighting and everything just stops because you just interrupted an important discussion. does that make sense? anyway, l...
I read this at least ten years ago. What I remember: an archaelogist somehow disturbs an alien artifact, and from then on ages backward instead of forward. Her family is desperate to find a cure before she de-ages out of existence. Then I remember getting really bored and barely managing to finis...
It's a story that echoes the Decameron and The Canterbury Tales, seven people tell the stories behind their going to Hyperion. Home to the Shrike and some tombs that no-one understands. Shrike will give one of them their wish but the others will die.It's interesting and while the story continues int...
Someday I must think carefully and write down why this book appealed to me so strongly. This story deserves it. And this story got me back into scifi over 20 years ago.I remember that I had just moved to Chicago for work, and I knew no one and had nothing to do one saturday morning. I decided to ...
I so enjoyed this!A tale of 7 pilgrims to a mysterious planet's shrike temple, set in a sci-fi future....really a character study as they each tell their tale of what motivated them to take the journey.I found I was pacing myself, reading one story at a time, so as to savor it, even when I really de...
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