Hyperion: Ausgezeichnet: The Hugo Award, 1990 (Hyperion Cantos, Band 1)

Hyperion: Ausgezeichnet: The Hugo Award, 1990 (Hyperion Cantos, Band 1)

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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
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Softcover
Pages
496
Price
8.75 €

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Ich hab’s nach vielen Jahren nochmal versucht mit dem Buch. Nachdem ich darüber gestolpert bin wie hoch es in manchen Listen hier gerankt ist. Aber ich kann das einfach nicht lesen. Bei Seite 450 bin ich ausgestiegen. Wie kann man so was langweiliges merkwürdiges lesen? Mit diesen ganzen merkwürdigen Figuren die ich zumindest weder richtig verstehe noch das ich mich mich mit irgendeiner dieser Figuren identifizieren kann oder sie zumindest etwas liebgewinnen kann. Keine Ahnung, aber das mein letzter Versuch was diesen Autor angeht. Was für eine Zeitverschwendung

I feel bad about dnf-ing this book. I feel unsatisfied and like I‘ve failed somehow. I really wanted to like this. I loved the premise. The mystery. The first character we follow — the priest— is on its own an outstanding novella. If I could buy simply this story to put it on my shelf, I would. Sadly, the soldier was where the book lost me. And neither the author nor the poet could reel me back in. I also listened to this book while having very high fever, falling in and out of delirious fever dreams. Now when I even just look at the cover the memory of these dreams haunt me. Maybe when these memories fade I too will set out to see the Shrike in person again.

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That was an interesting read. I really liked, how the narrative changed with each participant of the journey and that there is a small connection between each story. Felt a bit like Cloud Atlas though. And finally a/n utopian/dystopian future, where people really behave like our mankind. A river that flows across multiple planets? Houses that have rooms on different worlds? That is exactly what I'do with portal technology and no-power-issues. Another thing that I really liked is the fact, that even with their technology level, a journey to a specific world still takes years and the general concept of time debt.

I feel bad about dnf-ing this book. I feel unsatisfied and like I‘ve failed somehow. I really wanted to like this. I loved the premise. The mystery. The first character we follow — the priest— is on its own an outstanding novella. If I could buy simply this story to put it on my shelf, I would. Sadly, the soldier was where the book lost me. And neither the author nor the poet could reel me back in. I also listened to this book while having very high fever, falling in and out of delirious fever dreams. Now when I even just look at the cover the memory of these dreams haunt me. Maybe when these memories fade I too will set out to see the Shrike in person again.

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