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| Title | : | Endymion (Hyperion Cantos #3) |
| Author | : | Dan Simmons |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 563 pages |
| Published | : | December 1st 1996 by Bantam Spectra (first published 1996) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy. Space. Space Opera |
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In the faraway year of 3126, the 32nd century , things have regressed, in a remote corner of the Milky Way Galaxy, some two -hundred -seventy -four , after the fall of the Hegemony Empire, a young man is sentenced to death, on the once prosperous planet Hyperion, were he was born, for a crime , that was in actuality, self-defense. Raul Endymion, a hunting guide, was very angry, understandably, at a rich, spoiled jerk , he and his friends disobeyed safety rules, endangering him and others, firing wildly, missing the flying ducks, but killing his best friend , a four legged animal, his beloved dog. Throwing the idiot out of his boat and into the filthy swamp, later Raul barely escaping with his own life, the gunman was seeking revenge, shooting at him, instead , the would- be assassin is killed . After a hasty kangaroo trial conviction, authorities here, need the financial benefits hunters bring, from the off worlds, and the former shepherd in childhood, awakes ... the day after his execution...it had been faked , bribes paid and the confused Raul Endymion is taken to the deserted city of Endymion ( his family took that name for themselves). The famous poet who wrote Cantos, Martin Silenus, now forbidden to be read, ( lives on an abandoned university campus) by the new rulers, the Pax, ( greatly influenced by a new Christian Church ) is still alive, modern medicine has preserved the 1,000 -year -old , he looks awful, though, wrinkles over his whole body, faint, weak voice, the carcass, cannot walk, a living fossil, from the distant past, of old, long gone Earth. Martin has an impossible mission, save his "niece" Aenea ( a late friend's daughter) from being eliminated by the Pax, and the Church, the 12 -year -old, will be a threat to them in the future, she is some kind of enigmatic messiah, arriving soon, in the Time Tombs, where the killing machine, the unstoppable, The Shrike's home, is located, but has not been seen for centuries...A flying carpet, right out of an Arabian Nights fantasy will greatly help Raul, and his new companion, Silenus's former servant, the blue man, A. Bettik, well partly human , but more human than many humanoids. A large, lethal Pax Army awaits the duo, but so does The Shrike, unbelievable carnage springs out of the Valley of Death, thousands perish, a miracle occurs and the three now, (Aenea joins the party) flee in the vast confusion, and through a "Farcaster ", (an instant transportation apparatus) then ride a small raft they built, from planet to planet , ice , desert, jungle, and even water worlds, always searching for the next farcaster to find. And the relentlessly pursuing Father Captain, Frederico de Soya, of the Pax, never gives up in hunting them down, where they go, he will follow... on the immense, endless treacherous River Tethys, in a long, perilous journey , their unknown fate, awaits , and still another menace, is lurking about ... A terrific read and highly enjoyable for the adventurous crowd. Dan Simmons is a superb writer, this series shows, that undeniable fact...Mention Books In Pursuance Of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos #3)
| Original Title: | Endymion |
| ISBN: | 0553572946 (ISBN13: 9780553572940) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Hyperion Cantos #3 |
| Characters: | Martin Silenus, The Shrike, Aenea, Raul Endymion, Federico de Soya, A. Bettik, Lenar Hoyt, Father Glaucus, Sergeant Gregorius, Corporal Bassin Kee, Lancer Rettig, Cardinal Lourdusamy, Rhadamanth Nemes |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (1997) |
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Ratings: 4.17 From 44281 Users | 1324 ReviewsWrite Up Of Books Endymion (Hyperion Cantos #3)
Boring. Seriously, how can someone write such an incredible first book and then go so horribly wrong from there? The pace is slow and bogged down and there is a ridiculous amount of time spent talking about packing and unpacking and preparing to go on a mission and preparing a trap. I think this is Simmons painful way of attempting to build suspense. It doesn't work. I couldn't bring myself to care about any of these characters, there was virtually no development. Revelations ocurred haphazardlyI wasn't expecting this to be as good as Hyperion. A writer pens a classic and very rarely do they equal its awesomeness and originality. Endymion started great. It delivered all of the science fiction intrigue i've come to expect from Dan Simmons. The plot was nicely linked to the other two books and the whole idea of 'what message will she deliver' was interesting. But the more i read the less i liked. It was around page 400 i started to become bored. There's a couple of chapters of planet
This is a disappointing fall for Dan Simmons.Endymion is a tedious and ultimately pointless sci-fi chase novel that recycles rather than expands the concepts from Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion. Simmons starts by resetting the environment: it is 247 years later, and the reader no longer knows anything about anything. A bunch of travellers have to go on another journey of even more obscure purpose because one of them has "dreams", a completely unexplained plot contrivance. They are pursued by
"If there is a God, I thought, its a painkiller."- Dan Simmons, EndymionEnjoyed it, just not as much as Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion. This is the equivalent of the Return of the Jedi for me. Still buzzing from the first two, but not as good as the first two either. There are certain parts I enjoyed and somethings that just seemed a bit overdone. I'll review more later.
In the faraway year of 3126, the 32nd century , things have regressed, in a remote corner of the Milky Way Galaxy, some two -hundred -seventy -four , after the fall of the Hegemony Empire, a young man is sentenced to death, on the once prosperous planet Hyperion, were he was born, for a crime , that was in actuality, self-defense. Raul Endymion, a hunting guide, was very angry, understandably, at a rich, spoiled jerk , he and his friends disobeyed safety rules, endangering him and others, firing
As Ive written in my reviews of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion, Dan Simmons is trying to melt my brain.After weeks of medical treatment and therapy Ive recovered enough to be rolled out to a sunny spot in my wheel chair with a nurse to wipe the drool from my chin. Despite the doctors warnings about continued exposure to Hyperion, Ive gone ahead and read the third book in the series, Endymion. While there are still monumentally big sci-fi ideas in this story, I think that my earlier
You ever get those novels that just fucking provide endless consternation and cognitive dissonance when you're trying to slot them into one of the somewhat restrictive Goodreads rankings? Endymion is the biggest bastard of all of these kinds of books I occasionally experience. I honestly think that two-to-four rankings are the least fun to give out because when you're actually considering the book in the process of reading it and writing it up you have to work with it cerebrally and not on a
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