I'm conflicted. There were some great moments and incredible world-building in Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, Book 3), but this penultimate installment of the Hyperion Cantos isn't quite up to the high bar set by the first two Hyperion books. “The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.” Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, Book 3) is the third book in Dan Simmons’ Hyperion Cantos, a classic sci-fi series. I absolutely loved reading Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion. If you've been following my rev...

The sheer amount of coincidence, coupled with the messiah's foreknowledge and the authorities' incompetence (not to mention the Shrike's near-unlimited power), makes this interplanetary river journey surprisingly dull.Once again, common sense was ignored.Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, Book 3) almost threw me into a reading slump with all the attention Dan Simmons gives to inventory, fleets, troops, weapons, and logistics. And the titular Endymion is not only boring and lacking in observation skills/...

Want a free cruciform? It won't hurt *that* long. Bodily, anyway. It's so realistic that humans would use a groundbreaking, new biotechnological option to establish a new reign of faith fueled torture and terror state that makes the empire look weak in contrast, because they at least didn't want your immortal soul and forced you to get indoctrination body horror parasites I am absolutely sure that this is going to happen, that people will be manipulated without their knowledge by secretly infec...

First of all, I thought it was such a cool and almost unprecedented idea having the third book in this momentous series being so far ahead (270+ years) of the previous book, especially as it also allows as long a break as one wants between parts two and three. So it's back to this utterly spellbinding reality where travel between worlds is enabled by the wondrous amalgamation of ancient alien portals and... waterways!This book was never going to reach the heights of the previous two (because the...

In the distant year of 3126, the 32nd century, things have regressed in a remote corner of the Milky Way Galaxy, some 274 years after the fall of the Hegemony Empire. A young man is sentenced to death on the once-prosperous planet Hyperion, where he was born, for a crime that was actually self-defense. Raul Endymion, a hunting guide, was understandably very angry at a rich, spoiled jerk. He and his friends disobeyed safety rules, endangering him and others by firing wildly, missing the ducks but...

Buddy read with Athena, Desinka, Gavin & Kaora3.5 stars“You want to be a hero,” he repeated. “You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.”More than two centuries have passed since the pilgrimage to the Valley of the Time Tombs, and the Hegemony of Man, the beating heart of humanity, has been completely destroyed. The Worldweb is gone, along with the farcaster network and everything that made the univer...

As I’ve written in my reviews of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion, Dan Simmons is trying to melt my brain.After weeks of medical treatment and therapy, I’ve recovered enough to be rolled out to a sunny spot in my wheelchair with a nurse to wipe the drool from my chin. Despite the doctors’ warnings about continued exposure to the *Hyperion* universe, I’ve gone ahead and read the third book in the series, *Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, Book 3)*. While there are still monumentally big sci-fi ideas in...

Almost three centuries after the Fall of Hyperion, the Time Tombs open, and Aenea, child of Brawne Lamia and Johnny Keats, emerges. Along with a former hunting guide named Raul Endymion and the android A. Bettik, Aenea embarks on a journey to fulfill her destiny as a teacher. But the Pax has other plans. Can Aenea achieve her goal without being captured by Father Captain de Soya of the Pax? After seeing so many mediocre reviews, I wasn't expecting much from Dan Simmons' *Endymion (Hyperion Cant...

Hold on! If you've read Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion, just stop right there. This series? It doesn't actually continue. Seriously, pretend that these two books, Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, Book 3) and The Rise of Endymion, just don't exist. On the flip side, if you haven't read Hyperion, go read it now. It's fantastic. Genuinely good. One of my all-time favorites. Truly amazing. But Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, Book 3) is a massive letdown. After The Fall of Hyperion, you're likely craving mor...

"So it was that in the early autumn of my twenty-eighth year, content in my ignorance stolid in my conviction that nothing of importance would ever change, I committed the act that would earn me a death sentence and begin my real life." 4.75⭐ Initial Thoughts Okay, so I'm not your typical sci-fi geek. I tried reading Frank Herbert's *Dune* and gave up after fifty pages. Never got into Issac Asimov or H.G. Wells. But man, do I absolutely love Dan Simmons's *Hyperion series*!*Hyperion* and *...