The Fall of Hyperion

dan simmons

On the world called Hyperion the mysterious Time Tombs are opening and seven pilgrims risk their lives to petition the entity called the Shrike - a creature that may well control the fate of all mankind.

The Hegemony of Man - a thousand thousand worlds linked by a network of farcaster portals and high-tech gateways - is under siege by Ousters, strange, half-human tribes mutated almost beyond recognition.

The AIs - Artificial Intelligences whose synthetic wisdom created and maintains the nets that bind the Hegemony - have become a threat; it seems they have turned against the Hegemony and all mankind. And there is evidence that they have begun a project to create the Ultimate Intelligence - to build, in short, God. God of Machines: the ultimate deus ex machina. His genesis may well mean man's annihilation.

Something is drawing the Hegemony, the AIs, the Ousters, and indeed the entire universe, towards the Shrike and the Time Tombs from which it has arisen. In a moment the paths of man, machine and god will intersect. Nothing will ever be the same.

Genres science fictionfictionfantasyspace operaaudiobookscience fiction fantasytime travelspacespeculative fictionhorror

632 pages, Paperback

First published March 1,1990

Series

Hyperion Cantos

Literary awards

hugo award, nebula award, locus award, british science fiction association award, sf chronicle award, seiun award 星雲賞,

This edition

Format: 632 pages, Paperback
Published: February 20, 1992 by Headline Book Pub Ltd
ISBN: 9780747236047
ASIN: 0747236046
Language: English

Characters More characters

Martin Silenus

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Sol Weintraub

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Consul

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The Shrike

The Shrike is a character from Dan Simmons Hyperion universe, set far in humanitys future.The Shrike appears in all of the Hyperion books and is something of an enigma; its true purpose isnt revealed until the second book, bu...
Rachel Weintraub

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Brawne Lamia

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About the author

dan simmons

Dan Simmons is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works that span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. Simmons's genre-intermingling Song of Kali (1985) won the World Fantasy Award. He also writes mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz.