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I read Hyperion 10 years ago and wasn't real impressed. It is essentially a futuristic Canterbury Tales with six pilgrims each telling their stories on the way to see the deadly Shrike and the Time Tombs. But if I remember correctly, the novel simply ends as they reach their destination. The book is more about the individual stories of the pilgrims. Taken alone it was a decent novel, but nothing special. Taken as the first book in the Hyperion Cantos, it sets up everything to come.
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The novel follows series of interlocking tales (almost like a series of separate short stories) from a group of travelers on a pilgrimage to the planet Hyperion's Time Tombs, which are moving backwards in time, on the eve of the Ouster invasion of Hyperion. As the pilgrims progress on their journey to reach the time tombs and encounter the Shrike, a menacing half-mechanical, half-organic four-armed legendary creature that makes its home there, each pilgrim (a priest, a soldier, a poet, a scholar
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