Hypérion

282 pages

French language

ISBN:
978-2-266-17327-8
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Hyperion is a 1989 science fiction novel by American author Dan Simmons. The first book of his Hyperion Cantos, it won the Hugo Award for best novel.The plot of the novel features multiple time-lines and characters. It follows a similar structure to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The next book in the series was The Fall of Hyperion, published in 1990.

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reviewed Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

What's there not to Shrike?

Content warning Ending spoilers ahoy

reviewed Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

Far better than I recalled

Thoroughly enjoyable, and vastly better than I remembered from when I last read it 25 years ago. There were so many details I didn't recall. I somehow callowly missed all the obvious link the Canterbury Tales amidst the other literary allusions.

The world-building was exceptional, even if things like the world web now seem like a product of the era when it was written. To wit: the the writer and academic describe work conditions in several hundred years from now that seem firmly rooted in the past, let alone the present.

From memory the rest of the series declines in quality, but wow, this was good.

reviewed Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

Review of 'Hyperion' on 'Goodreads'

eh? I don't see all the hype. Too much poetry and philosophy/history about poetry. I read SCIFI for escapism and thought-provoking concepts, not for an educating in poetry.

This book was basically 7 different stories with a thin thread binding them all. In which this thread isn't even addressed in this book. Forget it, I'm not reading the next book. I give up. I hate poetry; it's so unreadable and unintelligible, and absolutely self absorbed. Yuk!

reviewed Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

A smashing, gripping story, with prominent elements I'm unable to decode.

Content warning Major recapitulation of the first of the book's six interwoven tales, short phrases describing three characters, one of whom only appears late in the book, and some fruitless discussion of the novel's many connections with John Keats.

reviewed Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

Review of 'Hyperion' on 'Goodreads'

I'd never heard of this series or author. I think I picked it up from a Free Library so I had some skepticism. After all, a lot of science fiction is a good idea poorly written. This was a good idea well done though. Very good world building and an impressive range of styles in each story. I look forward to the next book.

reviewed Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

Review of 'Hyperion' on 'Goodreads'

Well, what I should say about this book's story, or better, six stories. Which is the best? The priest's tale, the scholar or the consul? Perhaps the first, but I'm not going to spoil it. For me, the morbid and the bizarre priest's tale, was the deeply cut me inside. And abiut the end, this only the prologue for the next book, which I'm going to read later

reviewed Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

Review of 'Hyperion' on 'Goodreads'

Although I’ve read a bit of sci-fi and usually enjoy it, I’m hardly a sci-fi fan. I’d never heard of Hyperion or of Dan Simmons, so I picked this one up a bit randomly, with low expectations.

I wasn’t convinced by the first few chapters, with the pilgrims meeting and getting ready to tell their tales. I feared this would be a generic, if gimmicky, story set in a detailed but ultimately shallow future.

But by the time the catholic priest had reached the lost tribe of strange, low-IQ humans deep in the jungle and been introduced to the mysterious “Cruciform” they worship, I was hooked.

Although some of the tales are a bit uneven, far from being shallow, the world and its history that Simmons has created is integral to the story, and to the big ideas it introduces. And yes, it does introduce some big ideas of technology, …

reviewed Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

Review of 'Hyperion' on 'Goodreads'

It was good. I'm a little ticked off by the cliffhanger ending, but not royally pissed. It didn't ruin my enjoyment of the book. However, I was very underwhelmed. I picked this up cause I've heard a lot of good things about it, but not one single section or chapter left me saying, "Whoa!" It's just stuff that happened and then the end, or kind of end. I wish there was more to it.

reviewed Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

Review of 'Hyperion' on 'Goodreads'

I was torn between rating this novel at either a 3 or 4 stars. I elected for a 3 star rating because of a few factors. #1 the tale did not arrive at a logical breaking point; the 6 major components of the novel did not feel as if they were cohesively summarized. #2, two of the 6 major segments of the novel were neither on a literary par nor equivalently interesting with the other 4.

I will attempt the second novel in the series later, to see what comes next. Perhaps the threads of this tale will become more obvious to my old, slow brain.

reviewed Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

Review of 'Hyperion' on 'Goodreads'

I seem to find myself disliking a lot of well-regarded classic Sci-Fi, so feel free to ignore this review if you think you'd enjoy this book.

Some of the stories were much more engaging than others. I was surprised to find that I enjoyed the Benjamin Button-like story of Rachel (even though I did not enjoy Benjamin Button, at least not in movie form). Most of the stories felt like they went off the rails at some point.

I don't plan to read more books from this series.

reviewed Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

Review of 'Hyperion' on 'GoodReads'

Joe Valdez (a reviewer here on Goodreads) summaries my take on this book well with a single point: "[Dan Simmons'] great thinkers are not my great thinkers".

I just couldn't get into any of it. The stories weren't poorly written, they just weren't engaging at all. References to other real world authors and works that I've either read and felt were lackluster in their own right, or others that I have not yet read but certainly don't have high on my priority; continuously bombard the reader throughout. There were at least two novel things that I haven't much come across in a sci-fi novel before: heavy religious tones and poetry. Turns out this is also an unabridged list of things I don't enjoy in a sci-fi novel. Either that or I just don't tend to jive with Simmons' writing (this is the first of his work I have read).

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