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  • Paperback: 992 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz (1 Dec 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575076348
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575076341
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 6.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 40,065 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Shot through with a mother lode of character, heart and intelligence worthy of the best of Ray Bradbury. A treat for those who like their war movies cynical, their creature features plausible and their SF human and approachable." (Steve White DREAMWATCH )

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic concluding omnibus, 6 May 2006
How does a novelist follow up one of the most incredible, awe-inspiring and enlightening SF books ever written...?
Dan Simmons does it by taking the formula of Hyperion (another journey this time through the River Tethys and its farcasters, the manipulation of humankind by the TechnoCore, the reappearances of the strikingly memorable shrike), but placing it in a very different post-Web universe. The Christian society known as the Pax has taken over most of the fallen worlds, and rules ruthlessly and unforgivingly, rather than the vast Capitalist government seen in the Hyperion omnibus.

Anyway, that is all irrelevant, you will read all of this when you buy the book. WHEN (not if) you buy the book.
For ease of explanation (and to limit my waffling on about the greatness of the two books), I will review the omnibus as a whole rather than two seperate novels:

Simmons' narrative is, again, breathtaking. It is often common for SF to be this descriptive and expansive and absorbing, but never since Hyperion have I read a book that can convey so much emotion, and completely involve me in that emotion (especially with regards to the main characters, who you inevitably relate to and hope for). Love, hatred, fear, anger, are all put across with unfailing brilliance, and the book ranges from the deepest pits of despair, loss and pain up to the highest reaches of ecstasy and glory, exuberance and vibrance - and everything in between. Even if you are not a fan of SF, you should read these books just to experience the literary genius of Dan Simmons. The man is awesome.

There is always the risk that having read a review that quite clearly "brown-noses" a book, a reader of that book may feel it is incapable of living up to the surrounding hype, so there is perhaps something you should know. If you want to follow straight on from Hyperion, if you want immediate answers, you will not be satisfied. These books are set two-hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the World-Web, and follows a set of new (brilliantly conveyed) characters, and we all know no human can live for two-hundred and seventy-four years...
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars As good as it gets, 22 Dec 2006
Its hard to think about the two books here without bringing in the two included in the Hyperion omnibus. The saga as a whole includes glimpses of an imagined past and future which I still don't understand having read the whole Cantos through twice, and I'm still not sure exactly who, what, why, how and when the Shrike is. I'd love Dan Simmons to release some notes or reflections on the whole thing which tidies that stuff up. That criticism, however is only a minor one, and I make it only because the four books as a whole are so involving that you want any gaps at all filled in. The four books are imaginitive, uplifting, gripping and the last book is profoundly moving. Yes, there are times when the plot slows down a bit. But when it delivers, boy.....

I'll probably read these four books again once every 2-3 years from now. The only other book I do that with is Tolkein's Lord of the Rings. Okay, so I'm a Tolkein geek, but don't let that put you off if you are not. It doesn't get any better than this.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Flawed genius, 23 Feb 2007
Having read the Hyperion novels over ten years ago, and having been unaware until very recently that further novels in this series were available, I was delighted to see these books for sale. I started reading as soon as I got home and barely managed to put them down until I had finished all 900+ pages. Dan Simmons is an incredible writer with a real gift for detail. His work is singularly inventive and I urge anyone, whether they are science fiction fans or not (I am not), to try these novels, although they will only really make sense if you have already read the two that precedes them. The wealth of detail that makes up this body of work is utterly compelling and the only thing you will regret about entering this universe is having to leave at the end.

However, as other reviewers have commented, neither of these novels are perfect. For example, having established some 'truths' in the first two novels, the author is obliged to reveal that one of the 'truths' (a tenet relating to Ultimates / Stables / Volatiles from the Hyperion Cantos, an epic poem written by a character in the novels) to be a lie. This may have been planned all along but to me it felt as if the author had had to contradict his earlier writing in order to make the plot work at a critical juncture. As all four novels are incredibly densely plotted there was more than one occasion where I had this nagging feeling (the changing nature of the Shrike, which seemed not only a more positive character but also a physically weaker character than before, also felt quite contrived to me).

I also found it infuriating that there were several typos in the second book (I was reading the Gollancz SF individual editions). Not only did I see characters' names misspelt a couple of times but also found one character threatening another with the immortal line: "I will bum the flesh from your legs". I can only assume that this should have read 'burn'. Laughing out loud at a highly dramatic end scene was probably not what the author had in mind at this point.

However, despite these minor irritants, I still loved, loved, loved these books and look forward to reading anything and everything Dan Simmons writes in the future. For a mind altering experience which does not require the use of illegal stimulants, Dan's the man.



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4.0 out of 5 stars Yin & Yang with Hyperion saga
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5.0 out of 5 stars How many people can a Shrike kill?
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