Hyperion

[io_anonimus]

I had a long flight and a back pack full of books with me: Hyperion, The Time Traveler's Wife and Hunger Games for the SF side. I like novels about time traveling so…
I read the book some time ago so this was a reread but I still found it to be enjoyable.
Simmons is creating a “puzzle type” universe from apparent individual stories, with different genres, in the same novel: mystery, military science fiction story, romance. Each story is told in a different way and seems that everybody is crying “The Canterbury Tales” on it. It's very intriguing and good in creating characters. In a kind of intricate game he is able to let you figure them out from the context. It looks very natural and doesn't spoil the immersion factor. I somehow consider that the Rachel “story” is not necessary for the novel flow, but being the saddest of all is there mostly to impress the reader. The novel is rather slow in action -almost nothing happen on the pilgrims’ travel- but being well written you can pass over this. And of course I like it because it has something about time travel.

 

[Smudge]

I read Hyperion when it first came out, which mean that I was a young adult. I really did not like it at the time. I mean to one day try it again and see if it or I has aged well ;-)

 

[Fedos]

I've read it twice, once around 2008 and another time relatively recently. I enjoyed it very much, and was spellbound by Dan Simmons prose, which I suppose is to be anticipated seeing as how it's titled after poems by John Keats. But that is something you don't really expect to see in science fiction, spellbinding prose.

The first time I began reading this series I stopped and didn't get that far into The Fall of Hyperion, but I now have the remaining books of the Hyperion Cantos and will read them all at some point.

The book was only a little off-putting because of the Judeo-Christian slights, but as a born again Christian and aspiring writer myself I guess I am learning that there remains much that I can glean from even those who would speak ill of my faith. At the least it would help me to steel myself intellectually.

 

[Rodders]

I read Hyperion (and Endemion) when they were released as omnibus editions and was blown away by them. I didn't quite know what to expect and was blown away by them at the time.

 

[Moggle]

I've never read Hyperion because of it's bad reviews.

 

[Lord Soth]

I read Hyperion and to be honest wasn't too impressed, each to their own I guess!

 

[elvet]

I read almost exclusively fantasy, but I was recommended Hyperion by a good friend. I tried it and loved it. I ended up reading the whole Cantos.