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Description
In the best-selling sequel to Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs open to reveal their secrets to seven pilgrims, secrets that will change the shape and nature of the universe forever. Reissue.
Cast of Characters
- Keats Cybrid: Keats Cybrid is a cybrid recreation of the poet John Keats.
First Sentence
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.
Table of Contents
Glossary
- Hawking drive: Hawking drive enables faster than ligh travel. It was named after Stephen Hawking.
- Farcaster: A farcaster is an instantaneous transportation device. Farcasters allow two points separated by a vast distance to be brought together at a Farcaster Portal.
- EMv: Presumably standing for Electro-Magnetic Vehicles, EMVs are variable-sized transports which use a planets magnetic field to fly above the surface.
- Autosurgeon: The Autosurgeon is a (non-sentient) AI assisted system capable of diagnosing and treating illness and injury.
- Treeship: Living trees that are propelled by ergs (spider-like solid-state alien being that emits force fields) through space.
Series
This is book 2 in the The Hyperion Cantos series.
Authors & Contributors
- Dan Simmons (Author)
Awards
- BSFA (British Science Fiction Association) (1992: Best science fiction or fantasy novel)
- Locus (1991: Best Science Fiction Novel)
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