A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable epic by the multiple-award-winning author of The Hollow Man.
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a 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 riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope-and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.
Praise for Dan Simmons and Hyperion
"Dan Simmons has brilliantly conceptualized a future 700 years distant. In sheer scope and complexity it matches, and perhaps even surpasses, those of Isaac Asimov and James Blish."-The Washington Post Book World
"An unfailingly inventive narrative . . . generously conceived and stylistically sure-handed."-The New York Times Book Review
"Simmons's own genius transforms space opera into a new kind of poetry."-The Denver Post
"An essential part of any science fiction collection."-Booklist
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a 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 riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope-and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.
Praise for Dan Simmons and Hyperion
"Dan Simmons has brilliantly conceptualized a future 700 years distant. In sheer scope and complexity it matches, and perhaps even surpasses, those of Isaac Asimov and James Blish."-The Washington Post Book World
"An unfailingly inventive narrative . . . generously conceived and stylistically sure-handed."-The New York Times Book Review
"Simmons's own genius transforms space opera into a new kind of poetry."-The Denver Post
"An essential part of any science fiction collection."-Booklist
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Hét zarándok indult útnak a Hyperion távoli bolygójára, hogy a Shrike színe elé járulva választ találjanak kérdéseikre. De vajon melyikük kívánságát teljesíti a félig szerves, félig gép szörnyeteg? És mi lesz a többi hos sorsa?
A világegyetem fordulóponthoz érkezett. A Hyperion félreeso bolygóján az idoben visszafelé haladó, rejtélyes Idokripták megnyitják kapuikat, hogy a Shrike, a fájdalom és a megtorlás félistene milliók sorsa felett döntsön. A Számkivetettek ostrom alá veszik a Hegemóniát, míg az emberek által teremtett, megbízhatatlan MI-k azon fáradoznak, hogy létrehozzák a Végso Intelligenciát, Istent. A gépek istenét, mely pusztulásba taszíthatja az egész emberiséget.
Dan Simmons klasszikus regényének, a Hyperion címu uroperának a folytatása még az elso kötetnél is grandiózusabb képet fest a technológiai fejlodés és az emberi civilizáció jövojérol, de a gépek, fajok, vallások és filozófiák eposzi léptéku háborújában sem veszíti szem elol az egyént. Az olvasó újraszerkesztett kiadásban tartja kezében a könyvet.