Dan Simmons

Endymion

Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raoul and Aenea travel the river Tethys, pursued by Father Captain Frederico DeSoya, an influential warrior-priest and his troops. The shrike continues to make enigmatic appearances, and while many questions were raised in Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion, still more are raised here. Raoul's quest will continue.

Tobias V. Langhoff

Simmons continues to explore new forms of telling his Cantos; the first book was a kind of spoof on The Canterbury Tales, and the second book had the omniscient narrator as a main character. In this third volume, the narrator (whose omniscience is not explained yet, but an explanation is alluded to) is again the main character, with a framing story that alternates his flashbacks between his own and that of a person hunting them down.

This doesn't work as well as in the preceding book. It's exhilerating at first to witness both the hunter and the prey as they chase each other through the galaxy, but too often it drags on, with an exciting chapter about how the protagonists escape, followed by a slow chapter where we learn how the hunter investigates and finds clues to how they got away and where they went next – information the reader already knows. This dynamic is reversed just once, as I recall, where the heroes' fate is left unclear at the end of a chapter, until we learn the truth at the end of the next, from the opposite viewpoint.

The linearity of this story is less interesting than in the first and second entries, and the world feels a little more cramped, but the time skip is cool and makes room for some very interesting world building. I also appreciated that the fates of most characters from the last two books are left somewhat unclear, while their actions in the past still have consequences in this world.

Adam

Expanding on the Hyperion universe while introducing new realistic and thoughtful characters.

Fernando Andrade

No puedo ni siquiera expresar lo lleno de BS que está este libro. Espero un día reunir la fuerza necesaria para escribir una reseña bien personal de lo que sufrí al leerlo.

Sarvagnan S

This is an okay book. It does not stand up to it's predecessors in any way. While it is not a bad book, it is very predictable. It reads much more like filler, a kind of "yes this isn't very good but it's necessary that you know all of this" way.

Endymion

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