Hyperion
Book 1 of Hyperion Cantos
Language: English
AI Adventure Artificial Intelligence Hugo Award Winner Interplanetary Voyages Library - Science Fiction and Fantasy Life on Other Planets Nanotechnology Nomination of 1990 SF Chronicle Award for Novel Nomination of 1992 Clarke Award for Shortlist Novel Pilgrims and Pilgrimages Science Fiction Space Opera Win of 1990 Hugo Award for Best Novel _isfdb bsfa award for best novel finalist dolphin hugo award for best novel finalist hugo award for best novel winner locus award for best sf novel mega-flora storytelling
Publisher: Doubleday Foundation
Published: Jun 2, 1989
Description:
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of Time Tombs, where huge brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope—and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.
A stunning tour-de-force filled with transcedent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable new science fiction epic by the multiple-award-winning author of The Hollow Man.
Hyperion is the tale of seven people who make a pilgrimmage to a terrifying creature called the Shrike in an attempt to save mankind. Stunningly written and beautifully crafted, Simmons's Hyperion resonates with technical achievement and the excitement and wonder found only in the best SF. Reissue.