Novels by Dan Simmons (Book Guide)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 27. Chapters: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Hyperion Cantos, Endymion, Needlegun, Farcaster, Planets of the Hyperion Cantos, The Shrike, Orphans of the Helix, Ilium, Song of Kali, The Rise of Endymion, Technocore, Summer of Night, The Terror, Olympos, The Hollow Man, Ousters, Templars, Containment field, A Winter Haunting, The Crook Factory, Drood, Erg, Muse of Fire, Fires of Eden. Excerpt: Hyperion is a Hugo Award-winning 1989 science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons. It is the first book of his Hyperion Cantos, and is the only book in it to extensively employ the literary device of the frame story. The plot of the novel is highly complex, featuring multiple time-lines and characters. This book is succeeded by the 1990 science fiction novel The Fall of Hyperion of the same writer. In the 28th century, humanity has spread across the galaxy, first aboard "Hawking drive" ships and then through "farcasters," which permit nigh instantaneous travel between them regardless of the distances. The farcaster network (the "WorldWeb") is the infrastructural and economical basis of the Hegemony of Man and thus determines the whole culture and society. Also flowing across these portals are the structures of the datasphere (a network reminiscent of the Internet in design, but far more advanced). In that lurks the powerful, knowledgeable, and utterly inscrutable TechnoCore - the vast agglomeration of millions of AIs who run almost every piece of high technology of mankind. The unthinking hubris of man resulted in the death of the home-world (Earth), and this arrogant philosophy was carried forth to the stars, for centuries. The Hegemony itself is a largely decadent society, relying on its military to incorporate into the WorldWeb the colony planets, even unwillingly, and also to defend the Hegemony...