Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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Started reading August 30, 2025
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asked dryly.
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said in a pleasant
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responded Silenus with his satyr’s smile.
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intercede
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leaves stirring to unfelt breezes.
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Magus!’
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cried
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begrimed and charred, as if they had survived a fire.
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seemed the most avid and expectant of the listeners as he leaned forward
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orthodox zeal
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apostasy,’
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small redundancies which were the timeless failings of human speech.
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Catholic world of Pacem,
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Tall, thin, ascetic, with white hair receding from a noble brow and eyes too filled with the sharp edge of experience to hide their pain,
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nearby world of Armaghast.
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bishopric
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Bound by obedience and schooled in discipline, Lenar Hoyt accepted without question.
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Nadia Oleg,
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pockmarked
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diocese
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replied
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quietude,
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retrograde
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Father Duré’s mild reply.
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becoming somewhat agitated.
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ransacking his mental arsenal for potent arguments,
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Hoyt had brightened.
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A rough hemisphere of smoke expanded from him until air currents broke it into tendrils and tributaries.
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Jake K
Evocative way to explain a description of puffed tobacco smoke in zero g
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shrugged.
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puffed calmly on his pipe.
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lapis
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like a spectral tidal wave of light.
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Monsignor
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transept
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latticework
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nave.
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sacristy.
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Eucharist.
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floating disembodied in the darkness.
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Startled,
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spectral
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detritus
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a waking dream
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dreamlessness,
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v...
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tiny flame flickering to unseen drafts...
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boomtown
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skimmers
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Contextually meaning the hovercraft like ships