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The Fall of Hyperion
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Elena Alvarez Dosil
Aug 03, 2025 rated it it was ok
I only read this book because I needed some answers about The Shrike and the Time Tombs after the abrupt end of Hyperion. These two books are two halves of a unique story, and while the structure of the second book is very different from the first one, Hyperion only poses questions and gives you background information without any answers.

The narrator this time is a second incarnation of Keats the AI, which at times feels very artificial. The plot is very disjointed, and some events don't even h
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