The Fall of Hyperion

This book might be part of the Hyperion Cantos series.
(3 reviews)

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. 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 …

Paperback, 535 pages

Published Dec. 31, 2004 by Gollancz.

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978-0-575-07638-9
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reviewed The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Bantam spectra book, #2)

worth it by the end!

I found a lot of the later section of Hyperion and the earlier section of this book to be a bit of a slog, but it sticks the landing so well in the end that I can’t even be mad. Unclear if my about-face while reading is related to me picking up John Keats’ Hyperion partway through.

reviewed The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #2)

Slightly weaker than its prequel

The first third of the book is somewhat boring, I often felt a little disoriented. However, the rest of the book really delivers. Many questions from the first book are answered, thankfully many are also still left open. As opposed to the supernatural themes of the first book, this one is more about political intrigue/conspiracies. Still very well executed.