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This is a magnificent book and surely one of the truly great science-fiction novels. Simmons brilliantly organises his book in the style of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" with the complex plot developed through a series of personal accounts of members of a Pilgrimage, each of whom is on a quest to meet a strange creature called The Shrike.
The various chapters are as follows:
Prologue
The Priest's Tale: The Man Who Cried God
The Soldier's Tale: The War Lovers
The Poet's Tale: Hyperion Cantos
The Schola ...more
The various chapters are as follows:
Prologue
The Priest's Tale: The Man Who Cried God
The Soldier's Tale: The War Lovers
The Poet's Tale: Hyperion Cantos
The Schola ...more
Well, this certainly raises the bar for any science fiction, or really, any fiction at all that I read from now on in. Hyperion is a collection of six science fiction stories framed around a pilgrimage to Hyperion’s mysterious Time Tombs, home of the monstrous Shrike. Each pilgrim’s narrative of how they came to be there and the request they have to make of the Shrike reveals, bit by bit, something about the Shrike itself and the impetus behind a fast-approaching galactic war. Where this book ab
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May 29, 2012
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