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Dan Simmon's sci-fi masterpiece is a complicated work.
Using a frame story ala the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales it recounts the individual tales of six of seven pilgrims journeying to the Time Tombs on the eponymous world of Hyperion. Hyperion is a world within the world-web of the Hegemony (a sort of galactice empire), hungered after by the non-hegemony Ousters, and home to the legendary Shrike, a monster/god around which a cult has formed. On the eve of a looming intergalactic war seven ...more
Using a frame story ala the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales it recounts the individual tales of six of seven pilgrims journeying to the Time Tombs on the eponymous world of Hyperion. Hyperion is a world within the world-web of the Hegemony (a sort of galactice empire), hungered after by the non-hegemony Ousters, and home to the legendary Shrike, a monster/god around which a cult has formed. On the eve of a looming intergalactic war seven ...more
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