The Fall of Hyperion

Dan Simmons

ISBN 10: 0385249500 / ISBN 13: 9780385249508

Published by Doubleday & Co, New York, 1990

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Fine in dust jacket. Light stain to bottom of text block as pictured. Square and tight-probably not read. Errata slip laid in. Black cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. 468 pages clean and tight. 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 now maintains the nets that bind the Hegemony - have become a threat. There are hints that they have turned against the Hegemony and all mankind. There is evidence that they have begun a strange and frightening project: a scheme 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 Als, 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. And nothing will ever be the same. THE FALL OF HYPERION is a stunning, powerful world-building science fiction novel and a superb sequel to the internationally acclaimed HYPERION, winner of the Hugo Award and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fall of Hyperion
• Publisher: Doubleday & Co, New York
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385249500
• ISBN 13: 9780385249508
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Seven pilgrims continue their fateful mission to Hyperion, a planet that may be humankind's only hope in a galaxy threatened by an all-encompassing war

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.