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Title: Doesn't live up to the hype
Review: A pretty good book, but doesn't quite live up to the hype. The book is really just 6 tales by 6 strangers on a "pilgrimage" about what led each one of them to Hyperion. I was a bit disappointed that nothing actually happens ON Hyperion, all we find out is why the pilgrims are there, not what happens next (presumably that is in the sequel). Allegedly this book is a "Sci-Fi Canterbury Tales", but I do not remember much about the Canterbury Tales myself (read them 15 years ago or so). What was most frustrating and the reason I will read the sequel is some interesting hints of an AI "race" that may be done with humans and want to destroy them as well as the mystery of the pilgrimage itself to the "Time Tombs" which are structures travelling backwards through time (which are possibly tied to the AIs, who knows?).
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