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Title: Disappointing
Review: Violates "Truth in Advertising." It would have been a better book if they just titled it, "A Collection of Short Stories About Hyperion" rather than pretending it was a coherent novel. Individually the stories are okay and I kept waiting for the payoff that would tie them together and bring the "novel" to a climax, but there is neither a payoff nor a climax. There is no ending to speak of. It was like the author got tired of writing, so he just quit. And what the heck ever happened to Het Masteen? The guy just disappeared from the story and was left hanging, but it was nothing unusual since everything else was left hanging. No, I can't figure out why other people gave this a high rating. There are lots of good novels out there, but this is not one. This is the second time I've been burned on a "Hugo Award" winner, the other one was "A Deepness in the Sky," which was just a snore. That's the last "Hugo Award" winner I'm going to try.
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