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- Behind the scenesThe Canterbury Tales in space
The book borrows the structure of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: a group of pilgrims travels together and each tells their own story along the way. There are seven pilgrims, but only six tell a tale.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA Hugo and a Locus right away
Hyperion won both the Hugo and the Locus Award for best science fiction novel in 1990. Together with its sequel, it was also a finalist for the 1992 Arthur C. Clarke Award.
source ↗ - ReferenceA story that came first
The Consul's tale started out as a 1983 short story, "Remembering Siri." Simmons put it into the novel almost word for word six years later.
source ↗ - SetupWatch for John Keats
The poet John Keats is everywhere: Brawne Lamia's name comes from his fiancée Fanny Brawne and his poem Lamia. Her tale features a cybrid with Keats's personality. Keep that in mind.
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- ReferenceThe title comes from Keats
Keats left two unfinished poems about the Titan Hyperion: Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream. Simmons's first two titles come from them.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesNo more tales
The format changes here. The pilgrims stop taking turns telling tales. Much of the book comes through the dreams of a John Keats persona who sees what happens to the group.
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The book won the 1991 Locus Award and the BSFA Award. It was also a finalist for that year's Hugo and Nebula.
source ↗ - ReferenceTeilhard, Hawking and Vance
Besides Keats, the book nods to priest and philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, physicist Stephen Hawking and science fiction writer Jack Vance.
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- Behind the scenes274 years later
Endymion opens 274 years after The Fall of Hyperion. Almost everyone from the first two books is long gone, and the galaxy has a new master.
source ↗ - ReferenceAnother Keats poem
The title comes from Keats's 1818 poem Endymion, the one that opens with "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever."
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA paperback hit
The paperback went through five printings within a year. The book was a finalist for the 1997 Locus Award.
source ↗ - SetupWhere Raul is writing from
Raul tells the story in first person, locked in a strange place. Note where he is at the very start: the explanation comes later.
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- Behind the scenesThe end of the Cantos
The final novel won the 1998 Locus Award and was a Hugo finalist. The New York Times called the series one of the finest achievements of modern science fiction.
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Even centuries later, people from the Hyperion pilgrimage show up here. It helps to remember who was who in the first book.
source ↗ - ReferenceThere's one more story
After this book, Simmons wrote the short story "Orphans of the Helix" (1999). It takes place after the ending and is the last story in the universe, both in story order and publication order.
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