Hyperion (Simmons novel)
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Hyperion (Simmons novel)
| Full title | Hyperion |
|---|---|
| Author | Dan Simmons |
| Published | 1989 |
| Pages | 481 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Volume one of Dan Simmons’s Hugo-winning Hyperion Cantos: seven pilgrims travel to the Time Tombs to petition the Shrike, a creature that kills almost everyone who meets it, and each tells their own story on the way — the structure of The Canterbury Tales, so the book reads as six novellas inside a frame. |
Hyperion (Simmons novel)
Where I heard about it
- The a16z infrastructure team — in the Fantasy section of the a16z Infra Reading List, where the four Hyperion Cantos volumes share one entry. They call it “science fantasy” set in 2732, after humans have colonised hundreds of worlds and built superhuman AI and teleportation “farcasters,” and “intentionally mysterious.” This is where it starts, and the tale-telling structure makes it the most self-contained of the four.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from; Fantasy section, Hyperion Cantos entry.
- Dan Simmons — the author.
- The Fall of Hyperion — volume two, which resolves the cliffhanger this one ends on.
- Endymion (Simmons novel) — volume three.
- The Rise of Endymion — volume four.
- Science Fiction — the genre; the series is usually read as space opera with a literary frame.
- Artificial Intelligence — the series’ TechnoCore is one of the canonical fictional treatments of machine intelligence with its own politics.
- a16z — the firm whose infrastructure team curates the list.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.