3rd book in the Hyperion Series and it stays the same caliber writing. Very good story line, very good writing. I would say this is a science fiction adventure. There is the customary political/sociological intrigue but it is well done and not the entire focus of the series. The story telling is first and foremost.
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Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raoul and Aenea travel the river TethysT
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Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raoul and Aenea travel the river Tethys, pursued by Father Captain Frederico DeSoya, an influential warrior-priest and his troops. The shrike continues to make enigmatic appearances, and while many questions were raised in Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion, still more are raised here. Raoul's quest will continue in at least one more volume.
This series has something for everyone: Simmons's prose is imaginative and stylistically varied; point-of-view and time-scale are handled with finesse; the action is always gripping; the device of Old Earth allows Simmons to work in entertaining references to present-day culture; and the technology raises bizarre questions of ethics and morality in its use of repeated death and resurrection.
"Finished on Apr 10
Picks up more than a couple of centuries after the Fall of Hyperion. The cast of characters is different, the universe is vastly different. Answers some of the questions posed in the last book but raises a whole set of new ones. Engrossing."
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“3rd book in the Hyperion Series and it stays the same caliber writing. Very good story line, very good writing. I would say this is a science fiction adventure. There is the customary political/sociological intrigue but it is well done and not the entire focus of the series. The story telling is first and foremost.” read more
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