“An essential part of any science fiction collection. “Simmons’s own genius transforms space opera into a new kind of poetry.” - The Denver Post generously conceived and stylistically sure-handed.” - The New York Times Book Review In sheer scope and complexity it matches, and perhaps even surpasses, those of Isaac Asimov and James Blish.” - The Washington Post Book World “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. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. Believing that Martins work had somehow summoned. The Shrike gruesomely killed numerous civilians in the area, causing the city to be evacuated. On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. After moving to Hyperion with his patron, Sad King Billy, Martin Silenus seemingly brought the wrath of the Shrike on the population of the City of Poets while he worked on his epic Hyperion Cantos. 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.
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