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Overview

It is 274 years after the Fall and the universe is in chaos. Raul Endymion, onetime shepherd and convicted murderer, is chosen as a pawn in a cosmic game whose outcome will determine the fate of humanity. Selected as a bodyguard to the next messiah, Endymion will cross time, space, and the very fabric of reality as her protector, lover and finally disciple. At the same time, the enigmatic Shrike—part monster, part killing machine, part avenging angel—has also followed the girl into the 32nd century. Yet it is Endymion who has been chosen to rescue Aenea, against all odds. How will her message change the universe—if she is willing to speak it—and if she does, is humankind prepared to hear it?

The multiple-award-winning SF master returns to the universe that is his greatest success--the world of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion--to tell a story of love and memory, triumph and terror in a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors.

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[A] mastery of far-future science fiction.
Rocky Mountain News
Best science fiction novel of 1995.
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After a recent foray into the horror field (Fires of Eden, LJ 11/15/94), the multitalented Simmons returns to the sf genre with a sequel to the Hugo Award-winning Hyperion (Doubleday, 1989) and The Fall of Hyperion (LJ 3/15/90).

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780553572940
  • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 11/28/1996
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Pages: 563
  • Sales rank: 123,387
  • Series: Hyperion Series , #3
  • Product dimensions: 4.16 (w) x 6.81 (h) x 1.26 (d)

Meet the Author

Dan Simmons first novel, Song of Kali, won the World Fantasy Award; his first science fiction novel, Hyperion, won the Hugo Award. His other novels and short fiction have been honored with numerous awards, including nine Locus Awards, and four Bram Stoker Awards. He lives in Colorado along the Front Range of the Rockies.

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You are reading this for the wrong reason.

If you are reading this to learn what it was like to make love to a messiah--our messiah--then you should not read on because you are little more than a voyeur.

If you are reading this because you are a fan of the old poet's Cantos and are obsessed with curiosity about what happened next in the lives of the Hyperion pilgrims, you will be disappointed.  I do not know what happened to most of them.  They lived and died almost three centuries before I was born.

If you are reading this because you seek more insight into the message from the One Who Teaches, you may also be disappointed.  I confess that I was more interested in her as a woman than as a teacher or messiah.

Finally, if you are reading this to discover her fate or even my fate, you are reading the wrong document.  Although both our fates seem as certain as anyone's could be, I was not with her when hers was played out, and my own awaits the final act even as I write these words.

If you are reading this at all, I would be amazed.  But this would not be the first time that events have amazed me.  The past few years have been one improbability after another, each more marvelous and seemingly inevitable than the last.  To share these memories is the reason that I am writing.  Perhaps the motivation is not even to share--knowing that the document I am creating almost certainly will never be found--but just to put down the series of events so that I can structure them in my own mind.

"How do I know what I think until I see what I say?" wrote some pre-Hegira writer.  Precisely.  I must see these things in order to know what to think of them.  I must see the events turned to ink and the emotions in print to believe that they actually occurred and touched me.  If you are reading this for the same reason that I am writing it--to bring some pattern out of the chaos of the last years, to impose some order on the essentially random series of events that have ruled our lives for the past standard decades--then you may be reading this for the right reason, after all.

WHERE TO START? With a death sentence, perhaps.  But whose--my death sentence or hers? And if mine, which of mine? There are several from which to choose. Perhaps this final one is appropriate.  Begin at the ending.

I am writing this in a Schrodinger cat box in high orbit around the quarantined world of Armaghast.  The cat box is not much of a box, more of a smooth-hulled ovoid a mere six meters by three meters.  It will be my entire world until the end of my life.  Most of the interior of my world is a spartan cell consisting of a black-box air-and-waste recycler, my bunk, the food-synthesizer unit, a narrow counter that serves as both my dining table and writing desk, and finally the toilet, sink, and shower, which are set behind a fiberplastic partition for reasons of propriety that escape me.  No one will ever visit me here.  Privacy seems a hollow joke.

I have a text slate and stylus.  When I finish each page, I transfer it to hard copy on microvellum produced by the recycler.  The low accretion of wafer-thin pages is the only visible change in my environment from day to day.

The vial of poison gas is not visible.  It is set in the static-dynamic shell of the cat box, linked to the air-filtration unit in such a way that to attempt to fiddle with it would trigger the cyanide, as would any attempt to breach the shell itself.  The radiation detector, its timer, and the isotope element are also fused into the frozen energy of the shell.  I never know when the random timer activates the detector.  I never know when the same random timing element opens the lead shielding to the tiny isotope.  I never know when the isotope yields a particle.

But I will know when the detector is activated at the instant the isotope yields a particle.  There should be the scent of bitter almonds in that second or two before the gas kills me.

I hope that it will be only a second or two.

Technically, according to the ancient enigma of quantum physics, I am now neither dead nor alive.  I am in the suspended state of overlapping probability waves once reserved for the cat in Schrodinger's thought experiment.  Because the hull of the cat box is little more than position-fused energy ready to explode at the slightest intrusion, no one will ever look inside to see if I am dead or alive.  Theoretically, no one is directly responsible for my execution, since the immutable laws of quantum theory pardon or condemn me from each microsecond to the next.  There are no observers.

But I am an observer.  I am waiting for this particular collapse of probability waves with something more than detached interest.  In the instant after the hissing of cyanide gas begins, but before it reaches my lungs and heart and brain, I will know which way the universe has chosen to sort itself out.

At least, I will know so far as I am concerned.  Which, when it comes right down to it, is the only aspect of the universe's resolution with which most of us are concerned.

And in the meantime, I eat and sleep and void waste and breathe and go through the full daily ritual of the ultimately forgettable.  Which is ironic, since right now I live--if "live" is the correct word--only to remember.  And to write about what I remember.

If you are reading this, you are almost certainly reading it for the wrong reason.  But as with so many things in our lives, the reason for doing something is not the important thing.  It is the fact of doing that remains. Only the immutable facts that I have written this and you are reading it remain important in the end.

Where to begin? With her? She is the one you want to read about and the one person in my life whom I wish to remember above everything and everyone else. But perhaps I should begin with the events that led me to her and then to here by way of much of this galaxy and beyond.

I believe that I shall begin with the beginning--with my first death sentence.

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  • Posted October 17, 2011

    Sci-Fi MUST READ

    I heard about the Hyperion series from Slice Of Sci-Fi. This is a must read series. I have all but absorbed the first three books in this series and am currently getting through the 4th in the series.

    Excellent read!

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  • Posted May 8, 2012

    Continuing the "Hyperion" saga. More-More.

    Beginning with "Hyperion" then "The Fall of Hyperion". How does he do it? Simmons I mean. The mix of classical writing and prospective science is mind-bending. Tolkien got my attention 40 years ago, and I've read the "Trilogy" 9 times since. The Hyperion/Endymion series rivals. I was prepared; I bought all four books, and read them sequentially. What a trip! Perhaps there are critics out there who would find minor faults. So be it! Simmon's mind is a force to be appreciated and enjoyed.

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  • Posted February 19, 2012

    Wow!

    Just finished this series and I loved it. Thank you Mr Simmons.

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  • Posted April 18, 2011

    Very entertaining

    Very original and entertaining.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 10, 2008

    My Favorite

    While Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion are considered by most to be the best part of the Hyperion Cantos, I actually like the story in Endymion and The Rise of Endymion better. On one hand, it's an exciting page-turner and on the other a unique love story like nothing else you have ever read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 12, 2007

    not as good as expected

    I was disappointed by this book. I had hoped the book would be as well written as Hyperion and the Fall of Hyperion. It did not continue many of the stories of the he original pilgrims however. It continues Silenus' story. Unfortunately, the book paints a picture of the Catholic Church as evil a menace to everyday life. While possibly misguided, it certainly is not evil. It also briefly glances over the story of Lenar Hoyte, making him out to be a villain, which he clearly is not. The book did include the Shrike, one redeeming value.

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    Posted January 8, 2007

    not as good as expected

    I was disappointed by this book. I had hoped the book would be as well written as Hyperion and the Fall of Hyperion. It did not continue many of the stories of the he original pilgrims however. It continues Silenus' story. Unfortunately, the book paints a picture of the Catholic Church as evil a menace to everyday life. While possibly misguided, it certainly is not evil. It also briefly glances over the story of Lenar Hoyte, making him out to be a villain, which he clearly is not. The book did include the Shrike, one redeeming value.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 11, 2006

    ...and the story goes on

    When i finished reading the first two books i was amazed, So i bought the next book and it was just as good. I was suprised by the setting and the story because it takes place 274 years after the first two books. Even with these suprises the book kept it's suspense and genius of other books in the series.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 24, 2000

    The epic continues!

    Though not nearly as entertaining or thought provoking as the previous two books in the Hyperion Cantos, this is still a great book. Raul Endymion is a nice addition to the tapestry of characters, as is Aenea, and the changes in the overall setting are chilling. The Shrike in this book, while still a menacing figure, seems more heroic than before.

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