The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)

by Dan Simmons

‘Man and his machine intelligences. Which is a parasite on the other? Neither part of the symbiote can now tell.

Dying should become easier with practice.

[You are very acute for a mental stillborn]

cum-comlog

historian-cum-classicist-cum-philosopher

Abraham was testing God.

‘After a while . . . crocodile.’

Martin Silenus said the collective IQ had been higher when the place was deserted.