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Title: One to recommend to non-SF readers
Review: I've loved Hyperion for years. As a librarian, I recommend it highly to any (adult, not teen) reader who wants an introduction to the SF genre. This book, written as a string of long narratives by six different characters, represents some of SF's best themes: life after death, messianic figures, interstellar warfare, time travel, interplanetary colonization, strange alien encounters, cyberpunk. It even crosses genres with the detective's story. The characters are all well-fleshed out and thoroughly engaging, even if they're not all entirely likeable. I thought Fall Of Hyperion was just as good and a definite must-read for anyone who liked Hyperion. The two Endymion books fell a little flat and I don't usually recommend those unless I have a hard-core Simmons reader in front of me.
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