I know there are many of these posts, but I just finished the Dan Simmons sci-fi series, Hyperion and felt the need to write this. Wow. Utterly stunned is my best description of how I feel. In awe, really, that someone could craft such a thoughtful, thought-provoking, and magnificent tale. Over 30 years ago no less!
The characters, the scope, the detail, the emotion, the ideas, OH! the ideas! How does someone come up with so many futuristic ideas, realities, visions, prophecies?
Dan Simmons, if you are out there, I’d love to interview you. I’m overwhelmed with the genius you possess, but it struck me, at the end of Rise of Endymion, that you’re describing the place where you tapped into to create this beauty - The Void Which Binds. Bravo.
Thank you for writing this series. My worldview is forever changed.
I’ve never read it but I have a tendency to read up on the lore from a lot of different series and get into them that way. I say this because even though I don’t know much as far as the story goes, the Shrike is easily the scariest and most badass “villain” I think I’ve ever read about. The whole concept of its victims being impaled and essentially kept alive and in the worst torment one can imagine for eternity is just metal as fuck.
Agreed on the Shrike. The best villain of all time. I think beating out Darth Vader.