Hyperion
Hyperion Cantos, Book 1
by Dan Simmons
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Recommended by 6 notable people, including Sahil Lavingia and Meltem Demirors
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Recommended by 8 sources and appears in Space Exploration, Space Opera, and Time Travel.
A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable epic by the multipleawardwinning author of The Hollow Man.On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. T...
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Recommended by 8 sources and appears in Space Exploration, Space Opera, and Time Travel.
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