Hyperion: novel - 9789661046435
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Eight hundred years will pass, and to the mysterious Tombs of Time, which defy Newton's laws and the general theory of relativity, a strange delegation of a strange cult that worships an inexorable monster will journey to the utterly provincial planet Hyperion. A Catholic priest, a colonel of the military space forces, a brilliant poet-cursed speaker, a Templar who pilots a starship-tree, a quiet philosopher, a private detective, and a nameless diplomat – each of them has a cherished wish and a secret goal, on which the future not only of several billion people on two hundred planets but also of artificial intelligences and the mysterious post-human race of the Exiles may depend.
At the heart of passions and political intrigues — Hyperion.
At the center of attention — the stories of pilgrims (about war, about love, about the environment, about physical love, and about Literature with a Capital Letter).
At the core of the journey — an unfathomable being that punishes, beheads, and impales victims on the spikes of the (non)virtual Tree of Pain, but also bestows gifts: blesses with immortality, moves against the hands of clocks and pages of calendars, and exists as a Riddle that cannot be solved...
The fantastic Hugo and Locus awards of 1990, the title of best translated novel in Japan in 1995, and the apt concise characterization from the respected Clute-Nicholls encyclopedia: "The most ambitious epic in the space opera genre." All this is about the cycle "Hyperion Cantos" by Dan Simmons. And specifically about "Hyperion" — its bright start, honored by dozens of critics and thousands of readers.
Illustrations by Oleh Kinal
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