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The Fall of Hyperion

By: Dan Simmons
Narrated by: Victor Bevine
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 In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention.

On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing - nothing anywhere in the universe - will ever be the same.

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Critic reviews

"Dan Simmons was a star from the outset. It was the Hyperion books that made him a superstar. The man, quite simply, is what we in the trade call a writer's writer." (Mike Resnick, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author)
"State of the art science fiction...A landmark novel." (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine)
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I preferred the pace of revelation of wonderment and awe better in the first book but this one packs a huge amount of crazy good stuff in its second half. Can’t wait for book 3.

Hegemony fights back

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this was a very enjoyable sequel to the classic Hyperion.
The performance was excellent and succinct.

an absolute cracker of a story!

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Really enjoyed this book at the concepts in it. the pacing was good, and some of the twists were interesting.

The performance was pretty sub par though, part way through the reader changed pronunciation of certain words (e.g. the planet he introduced as 'lussus' changed to 'loosus'), he also changed accent for some characters, and at one point read out someone's lines with the accent of the character they were speaking to. Overall it wasn't terrible, but for a while things like that did pull from the emersion of it.

A great payoff to the first book

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The introduction of new characters, while keeping some of the previous ones, made it even more interesting. It nicely concluded the story started in the first book.

Equal to Hyperion

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As good as Hyperion - if not better. Things are progressing at breakneck speed, the sheer brutality and incandescent beauty of the description of the violence disturbs and enthralls simultaneously.
The story and the vision continue to capture your imagination and immerse you into the weird and wonderful "hegemony" of M Simmons' mind. By shirking traditional definitions of good and evil, heroes and villains, Simmons' continuously challenges your preconceptions and leaves you thinking about politics, love, war, treachery, sadness and loss.
Just try to resist becoming too attached to the individual characters - their arrivals upon and departures from the board of play can be heart- and gut-wrenching.
Although the ensemble cast is gone, Victor Bevine steps up to the plate (to use a baseball metaphor - at the risk of losing the love and respect of family and friends who are, like me, cricket fanatics) and carries off this performance with panache - even the odd pronunciations for some words are beginning to seem natural to the flow of the story.

Simmons' tour de force - continues apace...

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