The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos) - Softcover

Simmons, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747236046 ISBN 13: 9780747236047

Publisher: Feature, 1992

Synopsis

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.

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Review

This is the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion. On the world of Hyperion the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing-- nothing anywhere in the universe--will ever be the same again.

Review

"STATE OF THE ART SCIENCE FICTION...A LANDMARK NOVEL".

-- Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

Edition details

• Publisher: Feature
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0747236046
• ISBN 13: 9780747236047
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 640