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Title: Hyperion- Great SF
Review: Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Hugo award winning novel (1990) with a brutal cliffhanger ending. Very cool picture of the universe and the "hegemony of man" in the future. If you liked the Vernor Vinge books you will like this... it unfolds similar to the Canterbury Tales... with 6 travelers sharing their tales to the group while on a pilgrimage. The Hegemony is a "web" of worlds connected by farcasters(teleportation devices). There is a troubling technological over structure called the "techno-core" which is populated by AI constructs that seceded from the Hegemony and serve as the technological framework of the government and economy for their own, unknown, reasons. There are mysterious constructs on the world Hyperion called the Shrike (apparently a creature that brings only death) and the empty "Time Tombs" that are both moving BACKWARDS in time for unknown reasons as well.I finished it last night and now need to get the sequel (Fall of Hyperion) because of how it ended.
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