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# Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, Book 1) Kindle Edition

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Lots of Minutae
  

*by G***Y on Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2022*

I bought the Kindle edition and addible Audible. Today I had a four hour car drive and listened to it. Four hours delving into the backstory of a single character...and the backstory was not complete when I finished the trip. The overall story is entertaining and fun. If you need more than four hours to cover the history of one of seven protagonists...maybe there's some stuff in there that could get cut...

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A stylistic tour de force that demands much of the reader and gives much more.
  

*by R***K on Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2015*

Dan Simmons invites you to partake of a space opera after the heart of The Canterbury Tales in the first of the Hyperion Cantos, which promises to be an epic adventure with concepts and plot twists fit for a season of Doctor Who.Known space stands on the brink of interstellar war between the human Hegemony and the barbarous Ousters, a nomadic branch of humanity that has lived for generations in a nomadic existence in the dark between the stellar oasis of the stars, and have evolved and mutated into something perhaps other than human. And all the while a third faction – the independent AIs of humanity’s making – keep to their inscrutable plans, offering computing service to all while seeking to manipulate organic life to further the AIs’ own interests.In this pivotal moment, poised at a conflict of unprecedented scale that could well mean the extermination of sentience at worst and the devastation of civilization at best, news comes from the mysterious world of Hyperion: the legendary Time Tombs are opening, and a final pilgrimage is called.Artifacts of an unknown and immeasurably advanced power, the Time Tombs are gateways to eternity, offering enlightenment and puissance to the worthy pilgrim. To the unworthy pilgrim, the reward is death most brutal and terrifying, because first, the sojourners must face the guardian of the Time Tombs: the Shrike.To quote one character: He’s Michael the Archangel and Moroni and Satan and Masked Entropy and the Frankenstein monster all rolled into one package. He hangs around the Time Tombs waiting to come out and wreak havoc when it’s mankind’s time to join the dodo…Personally, I’d add Gort the robot from The Day the Earth Stood Still to that list. The real one, not that godawful remake. Like Gort, the Shrike is terrifying and inscrutable, beyond reason and appeal, and if it’s programming concludes that you die, the Shrike will execute that program, and it’s target, and no force in the universe can stand against it.And the Shrike is on the move.The reader’s introduction to this epic comes in the vector of seven different people from very different walks of life, and even from different times, since many have spent time in stasis or have experienced years or centuries compressed into minutes or days during faster-than-light travel through space. Seven people who under normal circumstances would never have met, now travel together across the world of Hyperion to the Time Tombs, knowing that only one will survive. All the while, Hyperion is on the front lines and will be among the first targets hit by the Ouster attack.As they travel, they agree to take turns sharing their stories, what brought them to Hyperion, what they want and why they are willing to risk everything to get it.And to add an extra layer of complication, one of the pilgrims may well be an Ouster operative.The story takes the form of six novellas as the seven pilgrims take their turn. Each novella is masterful, written in a different style and a different voice, relating the character’s story while serving to explore different aspects of this vast universe and its history.A disgraced Catholic priest discovers a race of beings who may have achieved the immortality his faith has promised, or is it an obscene parody of life?A debauched poet chronicles his rise and fall and his drive to create a poem unlike any other, even if it is humanity’s funeral dirge.A private detective is hired by an AI avatar solve a murder. The victim? The AI himself.A ruthless warrior, hero and butcher, tells the story of his defense of a planet in a pitched campaign to fight off an Ouster incursion, and now seeks the true meaning of war and it’s answer.And more.The framing narrative is fraught with perils as well, since our pilgrims must worry not only about the approaching Ouster invasion, but a murder mystery among their own ranks.And in the end, somehow Simmons manages to wrap up all these threads and leave us on the springboard for the true epic promised in the following three novels of the Hyperion Cantos.All in all, a seamless masterpiece. I not only loved it, but I truly can’t understand how anyone could not be sucked in immediately. I plan to devour the next novels soon, and I only hope they live up to the start in Hyperion.I can only say that the first book is definitely worth re-reading, and the Shrike deserves iconic status.On a side note, readers will also benefit from a familiarity with some of the literary references in the book, particularly Keats’ unfinished Hyperion, from which the tale draws many influences.Also, the narrator of the audiobook, Marc Vietor, is a genius in terms of conveying different characters.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Canterbury Tales. In Space.
  

*by C***9 on Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2019*

Hyperion tells the story of a vast intergalactic society through the series of seemingly random POVs- Much like the Canterbury Tales. The scope of the book is vast, and each POV incredibly unique.------------------------The book is so varied, with topics that i would never connect to each other, that i like to guess/assume/joke that this book came around as a dare.You see, i bet the author and a buddy were sitting around drinking... and boasting.Author: I can write about anything, and it will sell.Friend: Ha! Keep telling yourself that.Author: Im serious, come on, give me an idea. Anything.Friend: Hmm... Ok. You know how i love the poet Keats? So i want you to write a book about Keats. BUT! It has to be Sci-Fi, and in interstellar space.Author: Well...that's interesting...hmm...Friend: And, you have to include a real life account of the battle of Agincourt. And there has to be immortal androgynous humans. And electric/tesla trees. And an inter-dimensional death entity. AND. AND. DINOSAURS. REAL LIFE DINOSAURS.Author: Hold my beer.------------------------A Catholic Priest, a Jew, a drunk poet, and a military Colonel walk into a bar... sounds like the start of a bad joke- But these characters, along with a detective, a mysterious EcoFriendly-Templar, and a Consul/Planetary-Governor form a expeditionary group to make contact with the Shrike, and investigate time capsules. At best, only one of them will survive, and history shows that none are likely to... and yet all seven go willingly.The story begins with the Consul, abit of a recluse, who is the only living person on a wilderness planet dominated by reptiles. The story beginning/prologue is perfect and not one to rush read. A descriptive painting, it describes an extremely vivid picture that not only sets the tone for the rest of the novel but gives a ton of subtle hints about our POV character.The novel quickly pivots and gives short stories for each character. These stories are interesting in themselves and serve as both characterization and as clues to the mystery of the Shrike. While it is a totally different genre, there are interesting parallels to Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None"- and "The Canterbury Tales" both in setup and execution.Positives:+ POV/Characters. Each POV reads completely unique versus the one before it. Not only does each character act different, but the writing in each section changes to perfectly match the current POV character.+ Plots. Each plot is unique, some even floored me. For example, Sol's story? Wow.+ Storyline. The story isn't linear, but more a series of random snapshots. Have you ever seen one of those image mosaic compilations from Mars/Ceres/Pluto etc, where a number of pictures are joined together to show a whole? Think of each of these frames being revealed one by one. That is how this book is structured. While completely unique in there own right, each story also reveals one frame of the whole. As the reader progresses through the book, more and more connections are made, and when finished, the picture/mosaic/storyline is awesome.Negatives:- Bit of a cliffhanger at the end.- The structure of two of the plots. The Catholic Priest's plot is from a series of journals, which makes it distant and hard to connect with. The Consul's jumps around and isn't linear, which is a bit confusing.Neutral:+/- The reader is thrown into the story, and has to learn on the fly, because of this there are alot of terms etc which the reader has to infer.+/- Mature themes. Sex, gratuitous violence, etc.+/- Religious references.

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