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| Hyperion and Illium/Olympos; by Dan Simmons | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 4 2008, 10:57 AM (127 Views) | |
| Snake | Jul 4 2008, 10:57 AM Post #1 |
The Emperor's finest
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Right. I have a few favorite authors (Dan Abnett, Dan Simmons and Tom Clancy) and i wanted to share with you the scifi master that is Dan Simmons. I love the guy (well.. in a nongay kinda way). He has some pretty tough writing with some even tougher ideas (sometimes there is 'technobabble about real-life theories that i dont know... wikipedia rules!) but it's all quite quite good. Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion are my 2 favorite scifi books. It's light scifi and altough it has lasers, spacebattles, colonies,etc the main point is the story and the characters and no the scifi stuff around it. Illium and Olympus are both very good, but confusing. It deals with the trojan war... and gods... in the far far future. Have any of you read any of those books? I can stronly recommend Hyperion and the Fall of Hyperion for some excellent reading. There are 2 follow up books Endymion and Rise of Endymion ( i believe...) but apparantly alot of fans dont really like those. Anyway for a short summary: Hyperion Humanity is fighting a losing war against an alienish army. According to some prophecies the answer to everything lies in a sort of ritual expedition to the 'time tombs' on the planet Hyperion. The time tombs are tombs in a sort of bubble, where time goes backward. They were dormant but in the last decades the antitime bubble started up again. After some time a being appeared. The Shrike. Described as 'made out of living metal' and 'an orgy of spikes, blades and other sharp things'. He randomly kills people or abducts them while letting others live. Noone knows why, how it works, what it is... only that it's very real. Yet it can control time, appearing as moving like a human or moving faster then light and it's seemingly unstoppable. Sometimes people have witnessed a big tree of metal, where the Shrike's screaming victims are impaled... ever tormented and screaming with pain. A number of people are chosen for the expedition. The Book Hyperion deals with their travel to the world of Hyperion and each of their own backstories. This is also the fun. One story is about an old scholar who had a daughter that was in the time tombs when the field became active and thus growing younger each day. This is an especially scary story for parents. There is a poet, who is arrogant, decadent and a bit weird. You have the governor who seems reasonable but has mysteries in his past and a few other people (ex soldier, a private detective, etc). They don't know what they are supposed to do on their pilgrimage but time and fate will tell. Im sorry... my synopsis far from covers everything in the book. It's just a short from thingies i remember.  
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