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May 26, 1989 · Hyperion is the first book in the Hyperion Cantos quartet by Dan Simmons. On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, there waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it.
Hyperion is a 1989 science fiction novel by American author Dan Simmons. The first book of his Hyperion Cantos series, it won the Hugo Award for best novel. The plot of the novel features multiple time-lines and characters. It follows a similar structure to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Hyperion, one of the moons of Saturn, is named after the titan. Saturn itself is named after the Roman equivalent of Hyperion's brother Cronus, Saturnus. Hyperion Records is a British classical label founded in 1980 and acquired by UMG in 2023, known for their recordings of Romantic piano concertos.
Mar 1, 1990 · Each carries a desperate hope--and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands. A stunning tour de force, this Hugo Award-winning novel is the first volume in a remarkable new science fiction epic by the author of The Hollow Man.
He was considered one of the four pillars that hold the heavens and the earth apart, and since his daughter was dawn, he was probably the pillar of the east. The other three pillars were his brothers Coeus (pillar of the north), Crius (pillar of the south), and Iapetus (pillar of the west).
Rate it: Also known as Canti di Hyperion Prayers to Broken Stones (Hyperion Cantos, #0.5), Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1), The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, ...
Mar 10, 2023 · Hyperion was a Greek Titan who, along with most of his siblings, fought for the right to rule the cosmos but lost to the Olympians. Rarely mentioned in myths, he is best known for fathering the gods of the sun, moon, and dawn.
On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of...
Aug 5, 2010 · The book that reinvented Space Opera. The Canterbury Tales in space - from the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Terror, which is now a chilling TV show.It is the 29th...
Jan 1, 2001 · And in The Hyperion Omnibus, the first volume of the Hyperion Cantos collecting the first two novels: Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion, Simmons – drawing inspiration from the life and works of the Romantic poet John Keats – creates his own vision of the far future, traveling us in a universe of priests and poets, pilgrims and ...
