Hyperion
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Hyperion
Legend has it that one of the pilgrims will have his wish granted by Scorpio, but the others will perish...
In a distant world called Hyperion, lying at the very edge of Hegemony and its laws, will land accompanied by the star captain of the Templar Treeship, Priest, soldier, poet, Detective, a consul and a scholar with an infant. A disparate group of pilgrims make their way to the mysterious Tombs of Time to face the bloody gaze of the ruby-eyed Angel of Pain and hundreds of its deadly blades. Each member of the expedition is driven by their own ulterior motivations, which come to the surface as they confide their stories to each other in a set order. With them, the true nature and immeasurable significance of their journey is slowly being revealed, which could lead to an interstellar war with billions of human lives at stake. A messy conflict between the Empire's Space Force, hordes of barbaric Outcasts and rival factions of artificial intelligences is about to erupt - and the first clash is set to take place on an inhospitable planet, home of the legendary Scorpio...
The first book of the Hyperion Cycle is set in the far future, when humanity is colonizing a universe inhabited by alien races. The author has ingeniously constructed this now classic work of world science fiction in the manner of the Canterbury Tales to present distinctive characters and their unique world through half a dozen diverse stories.
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Dan Simmons
The American author was born in Peoria, Illinois. He studied English at the University of St. He spent eighteen years teaching in elementary schools in St. Louis, and then the last four years of his teaching experience he focused on especially gifted children. Since 1987 he has been writing full time. His first published work was the short story The River Styx Runs Upstream in Twilight Zone magazine (1982). His debut novel was the horror film The Song of Kali. His best known work is the novel Hyperion and its sequels The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion and The Rise of Endymion. In addition to science fiction (Ílion, Olympus, Flashback) and horror (The Hunger Games, Drood, Black Summer, The fires of paradise, Children of the Night ad. ), but he also writes crime fiction (Cruel Game, The bitter cold, A cruel fate, The Fifth Heart) and novels outside genre definitions (Blackhills, Phases of gravity). Based on the historical novel with horror elements called Terror, AMC television made a successful series produced by Ridley Scott. A second series is in the works.
