- Littérature américaine, Science-fiction américaine, Science-fiction, Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope--and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.
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- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Dan Simmons
- First published
- October 1993
- Pages
- 561
- Publisher
- Wydawnictwo MAG, Bantam, Headline
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- Italian, Portuguese, French, Polish
- ISBN
- 9783453156395
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“On the day the armada went off to war, on the last day of life as we knew it, I was invited to a party.”
Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the *Hyperion Cantos* and the *Ilium*/*Olympos* cycles, among other works which span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. A typical example of Simmons' intermingling of genres is *Song of Kali* (1985), winner of the World Fantasy Award. He also writes mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz. **Source**: [Dan Simmons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Simmons) on Wikipedia.
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