Hyperion (Hyperion Series #1)
Hyperion is the tale of seven people who make a pilgrimmage to a terrifying creature called the Shrike in an attempt to save mankind. Stunningly written and beautifully crafted, Simmons's Hyperion resonates with technical achievement and the excitement and wonder found only in the best SF. Reissue.
Hyperion is the tale of seven people who make a pilgrimmage to a terrifying creature called the Shrike in an attempt to save mankind. Stunningly written and beautifully crafted, Simmons's Hyperion resonates with technical achievement and the excitement and wonder found only in the best SF. Reissue.
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Format: ebook
ASIN: 9780553283686
Publish date: 28-02-1990
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Edition language: English
I know, I only gave it four stars where everyone else gives it five. Its actually 4-1/2 stars, but I just couldn't give it five. Why you ask? After an almost perfect novel (really a series of individually excellent loosely interconnected stories tied together by an equally good framing story), Da...
Tentative rating until I see how it all ends in The Fall of Hyperion. But even if that book totally doesn't pay off, this one's a killer set-up, and the first "novel in stories" I've read that truly works both as individual stories (even when they started slow, all six turned out to be engaging, and...
Hyperion is The Canterbury Tales crossed with Aliens.It works.Yet it is so much more than that.Simmons is extremely well read, and the references in this book draw heavily from English literaure, in particular the Romanitics, and especially John Keats.The story concerns seven pilgrims who are making...
I was enthralled by this book. I could not put it down to the degree that I was attempting to incorporate it into everyday life, like bathing and walking and sleeping. This book was so crazy awesome I was considering offering it a medal for heroic conduct. Then I got to the ending. This book has...
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