The Fall of Hyperion
(Paperback)
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Published: 31st March 1999
Paperback
Published: 12th June 2012
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Published: 1st December 2005
Publishing Details
The Fall of Hyperion
By (Author) Dan Simmons
Orion Publishing Co
Gollancz
12th June 2012
12th April 2012
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
813.6
Winner of British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 1992 (UK)
Physical Properties
Paperback
560
Width 131mm, Height 198mm, Spine 36mm
400g
Description
The mysterious Time Tombs are opening and the Shrike that has risen from them may well control the fate of all mankind.
The Ousters are laying seige to the Hegemony of Man and the AIs we created have turned against us to build the Ultimate Intelligence; God. The God of Machines. His genesis could mean annihilation for man.Something is drawing the hegemony, the Ousters, the AIs, the entire universe to the Shrike.Author Bio
Dan Simmons won the World Fantasy Award for his first novel, SONG OF KALI, inspired by his travels in India. In the 1990s he rewrote the SF rulebook with his Hyperion Cantos quartet. He has also written thrillers. Alongside his writing he maintains a career as a college lecturer in English Literature in the USA.
