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Summary: Simply one the best Blockbuster Sci-Fi Novels
Review: This book focuses on seven pilgrims chosen for a critical mission by an interplanetary government at a crisis point. The planet Hyperion stands between two Empires struggling for their survival. Hyperion's most terrifying occupant, the legendary killing-entity known as the Shrike, may hold the key to the balance of power.The greatness of the book is in the amazing storytelling. Each character tells their own short-story of why they were chosen for the mission. Their tales are amazingly imaginative, haunting, and action-packed. You will live, breathe, and cry with them. Their universe is a wondrous place, so go there right away! Winner of the 1989 Hugo Award for Best Novel. What more can I say?
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Summary: Quit whinning, these books are great!
Review: I don't understand people's complaints about the two books of the first story (Hyperion and Fall). Perhaps these people never bothered to read anything but science fiction and just don't understand the Keat's references. Perhaps they've watched too many movies and expect a happy ending (anybody seen John Carpenter's the Thing? There was no sequal!). Hyperion was never ment to end the story. So far it's FOUR books! Who reads the Once and Future King and gets upset at the end of the first book because the story isn't finished? Over all, these books have to be some of the finest literature published this decade. I found the characters to be enjoying (Han Solo was unsavory, but he was the best guy, it's called character). Their development throughout the books was increadible. The Universe created by Simmons is great! I can't stop reading these books. I have to know more! And as an athiest, his thoughts of God and the Ultimate Intellagence are the bbest thought out and clearest concept of higher evolution that I have ever read. His technology is advanced but grounded in current thought. And his understanding of historical periods (here the fall of the Roman Empire and in the Endymion books of the Middle Ages) is exemplary. The literary references are inviting, it's nice to read somebody who reads. I'm sorry for anybody who does not understand this book, but I give it my highest rating.
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Summary: Started my enthousiasme for sci-fi!!!!
Review: A while ago I bought Hyperion because I was bored. I sah the cover and it looked rahter inviting. So I started reading and I was in love! The John Keats-fixation was a bit strange but, what an imagination. I mean, this book is so universal. It questions the church, a uncurable reverse growing dissease and lots and lots more. It's rather like The Cantebury Tales only a hundred times better. After a while a just had to read the fall of Hyperion and was equally pleased with the suspence. Now I have to admit it's hard to find other titles that can match the standard set by Simmons. Also it was this particulairy book that awakened my passion for reading, especially SCI-FI!!!
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Summary: One of Spec-Fic's Greatest Epics...
Review: Now, don't get me wrong - I liked Dune and Foundation, but neither of these volumes matches the breadth and depth that Simmons manages so effortlessly. Hyperion is very much superior to The Fall of Hyperion, but I found that the series picks up again with Endymion's brilliant new twists on the old vision. Hyperion is that terribly rare achievement, in my opinion - a book that constructs not just a world, but a universe. Simmons crafts a vision so vast that as a reader I felt grateful just to have the opportunity to wrap my imagination around it. From FORCE to the TechnoCore, from the Fatline to the Shrike, Hyperion uses with casual grace a plethora of ideas and concepts, any one of which a lesser writer would have been happy to use as the sole basis for a work. Truly a magnificent accomplishment, Mr. Simmons.
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Summary: one-shot
Review: This is a wonderful book , but in following titles , he just runs over the same themes
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Summary: Pretentious twaddle
Review: I am astounded by the hysteria that surrounds this novel and its sequel. Quick frankly, I can't find a good thing about it. It is overwritten. It logically makes no sense whatsoever. John Keats, fine poet as he was, is hardly an apt figure for the ultimate savior of mankind. The science--ranging from tree ships to a super-Internet that be both (a) intelligent and (b) a transportation network ("It's a floor wax! It's a dessert topping!!") is worse than embarressing. I literally forced myself though both volumes, with a "this can't get any worse" attitude--and it did. Be warned. If you like, say, the Charles Sheffield / Arthur Clarke / Isaac Asimov end of the spectrum, you will hate this. If you like fantasy and have no sense of logic, you might like it.
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Summary: Great stories
Review: I really enjoyed this book, even though I do not find the subject of human pain and suffering particularly interesting. For one thing, Simmon's narrative is very good! I wasn't annoyed by the lack of a specific ending. After all, the stories are perfectly good by and in themselves. I'd recommend this book to anyone!
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Summary: Hyperion is Great!
Review: This is without doubt one of the best books I have ever read. The plot is gripping, because even though it is not necessarily action packed (which nothing needs to be) it can still hold the reader's attention with brilliant writing, likable characters, and a great mystery, the Shrike. I'd like to see a review giving me one character with a better combination of chill and mystery than the Shrike, one of the best characters in the book. I liked most of the stories, my favorite one being the Consul's betrayls for Maui Covenant, and how he is then forced to do something as punishment... I won't give it away. The end left me rushing to "The Fall of Hyperion" to see what would happen next! I don't understand the 1's and 2's that were given. Possibly too intellectual for them. The only reason I didn't give this book a 10 is because I don't give books 10's yet. When I'm about to croak I'll think of what books deserve 10's, but this is sure to be one of them. Not as full of action, and different kinds of character situations than "Ender's Game," another one of my favorite books.
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Summary: Incest?
Review: In Hyperion, Johnny -- a ressurected John Keats -- thinks of Fanny when he makes love to Brawne Lamia. In reality, John Keats's sister's name is Fanny! Either Simmons didn't do his homework or he's implying incest. Hmm...
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Summary: Hyperion, et al. are masterpieces of literature
Review: Dan Simmons has a way to draw the reader into his book and hold you there through every page until you realize it's 4 a.m. and you have to be to work at 9a.m. Hyperion is the first head of a four headed monster that skillfully blends his skills as a science fiction writer, while paying homage to the writers of the past who inspired him..Keats, Chaucer, Eliot, etc.
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