If you are reading this at all, I would be amazed. Although both our fates seem as certain as anyone's could be, I was not with her when hers was played out, and my own awaits the final act even as I write these words. I confess that I was more interested in her as a woman than as a teacher or messiah.įinally, if you are reading this to discover her fate or even my fate, you are reading the wrong document. If you are reading this because you seek more insight into the message from the One Who Teaches, you may also be disappointed. They lived and died almost three centuries before I was born. I do not know what happened to most of them. If you are reading this because you are a fan of the old poet's Cantos and are obsessed with curiosity about what happened next in the lives of the Hyperion pilgrims, you will be disappointed. If you are reading this to learn what it was like to make love to a messiah- our messiah-then you should not read on because you are little more than a voyeur. You are reading this for the wrong reason. Endymion is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror-an instant candidate for the field's highest honors.
Now, six years later, Simmons returns to this richly imagined world of technological achievement, excitement, wonder and fear. Hyperion went on to win the Hugo Award as Best Novel, and it and its companion volume, The Fall of Hyperion, took their rightful places in the science fiction pantheon of new classics.
This staggering multifaceted tale of the far future heralded the conquest of the science fiction field by a man who had already won the World Fantasy Award for his first novel ( Song of Kali) and had also published one of the most well-received horror novels in the field, Carrion Comfort. Hyperion -with a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors.ĭan Simmons's Hyperion was an immediate sensation on its first publication in 1989. The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the universe that is his greatest triumph-the world of Hyperion and The Fall of
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