Hyperion
Dan Simmons · 1989
Canterbury Tales in deep space, saturated with Keats, and anchored by the Shrike, one of SF's most terrifying villains. Simmons combined literary ambition with space-opera scale in a way no one has quite replicated since 1989.
The case against
Six pilgrims tell six tales, and then the book simply stops; the actual ending is sold separately as The Fall of Hyperion. The tales are uneven too: the priest's opener sets a bar the poet's bombast and the detective pastiche never clear. Simmons's Keats worship tips from homage into homework.
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