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Hyperion
A Science Fiction Novel by Dan Simmons
Book 1 of the Hyperion Cantos Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Space Opera,
- Epic,
- Multi-POV
This book is for you if you're into...
- Terrifying sci-fi monsters like the Shrike guarding time-bending tombs
- Multiple POV journeys with desperate secrets and emotional devastation
- Space epics blending AI gods, theology, poetry, and military action
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The Hegemony of Man in the Hyperion Cantos spans the stars and hundreds of planets, connected by terrifyingly powerful technology (including a god-like AI). It depicts what society might be like immediately following the golden age of human expansion, once the growth and exploration has finally stopped and people begin to realize how fragile the society they’ve built really is.
This series delivers a truly riveting exploration of the illusion of democracy (a common theme in sci-fi) and gifts us with one of the most terrifying sci-fi antagonistic monsters ever created: the Shrike.
A 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.
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.
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. Each carries a desperate hope—and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.
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