The Sword and Laser discussion

If you're in the latter half of Hyperion and really enjoying it then you should really pick up the second book Fall of Hyperion. Hyperion ends so suddenly I thought that a chapter must be missing.

I had to go out and get The Fall of Hyperion the day I finished. (This was several years ago.) I had to know what happened to Sol and Rachel.

Sandi wrote: "I had to go out and get The Fall of Hyperion the day I finished. (This was several years ago.) I had to know what happened to Sol and Rachel."

Is there a resolution to all their stories in the 2nd book?

Sandi wrote: "I had to go out and get The Fall of Hyperion the day I finished. (This was several years ago.) I had to know what happened to Sol and Rachel."

Is there a resolution to all their stories in the 2nd book?

Sarah wrote: "Is there a resolution to all their stories in the 2nd book?"

Yes. You could go on to the second duology, but they're set many, many years in the future and have a whole new set of characters.

I'm halfway through the second book just past the cyberpunk chapter and yeah - its like the first book was the warm up and things start unfolding and ramping up and you start getting some answers that make you realise you were asking the wrong questions in the first book.
Hyperion on its own is a different book without the 2nd book. I still think it can stand on its own provided you are willing to forego a lot of answers and resolutions - and just view it as a compendium of inter related short stories - but I think its a shadow of what its meant to be without the 2nd book.

David wrote: "I'm halfway through the second book just past the cyberpunk chapter and yeah - its like the first book was the warm up and things start unfolding and ramping up and you start getting some answers t..."
Yeah, that's how I felt after reading this book. It was more like some short stories framed in another story, something like
The Last Wish except the framing was done better in Hyperion, probably because it was meant as a single narrative.

I remember enjoying it but I didn't feel a need to rush out and read the sequel. I will get to it in time though.

Yes. I have just finished and really need to get the next book. Talk about abrupt.

We started talking about this on my Hyperion vs Canterbury tales thread... I am still not gripped enough by the story to want to continue past the first book, but we shall see.

The first copy of Hyperion that I bought actually was missing a chapter or so. No spoiler (I think) it ended with a certain Wizard of Oz allusion and then about 15 blank, white pages. I thought at first it was just being "artsy" (and, looking back, prefiguring the ending of The Sopranos), but then I realized it was a printing error.