“Dan Simmons has brilliantly conceptualized a future 700 years distant. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands. Each carries a desperate hope-and a terrible secret. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.
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And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. One tip, buy the sequel before you get to the end.Ī stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable epic by the multiple-award-winning author of The Hollow Man. This novel won Dan Simmons the Hugo Award in 1990 and for good reason. The story unfolds, in much in the same vein as The Canterbury Tales, when the threads that bind the characters together become clear as their destinies reach a dramatic climax. Strangers to each other, they decide to share with one another what it is that ties each of them to the planet.
On the eve of Armageddon seven pilgrims have been sent to the planet in hopes of averting disaster. The planet Hyperion itself is a mystery where time is a river flowing forwards and backwards. The known universe is on the verge of annihilation and the Hegemony of Man believe their salvation lies somewhere on Hyperion with the evil and mysterious creature(s) called the Shrike.
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