During the journey, the pilgrims, each of whom has a personal link to Hyperion, begin to tell each other their stories, and realize that things are much more complicated than they thought. They hope their desperate appeal to the Shrike will persuade it to give them some of its alien technology that can save humanity. With the help of its allies in the TechnoCore (a group of A.I.s), mankind lives in peace.until the mysterious "Ousters", a splinter race of humanity adapted to living in deep space, attack.Īs the war becomes desperate, a group of seven pilgrims are sent to the planet Hyperion, a colony world guarded by the inscrutable killing machine known as the Shrike. There is also a short story called "Orphans of the Helix", serving as kind of a Distant Finale.Įight hundred years into the future, humanity has fled the Earth's accidental destruction at the hands of an artificial black hole and has established the WorldWeb, a society of many planets connected through the Farcaster network. In order, they are: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, and The Rise of Endymion. Anyone want a hug?The Hyperion Cantos is a series of four science fiction novels written by Dan Simmons.
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