/lit/ - Literature

Threadly reminder that this is still the best sci-fi and other sci-fi should try harder.

ITT series that got worse with every release

Let's discuss Hyperion Cantos /lit/
Which books you think were better, Hyperion ones or Endymion?
Also, IIRC there are some continuity or lore errors, can't remember exactly what, that imply Simmons wanted to reboot them. If anyone remembers which those are..?

I didn't find these particularly great.

I've only just finished Rise of Hyperion so I've not read the last two books, but I'm wondering if I should even bother.

I thought the Priest's chapter in the first book was the best constructed part of the entire narrative because it was basically a horror story.

Once he starts world-building, and going on about AI, I feel like everything becomes too detached, the story loses focus on these 7~ people he's built up in the first book.

I don't think he has the ability to world-build like Herbert did with Dune or Asimov with Foundation, but he's praised for it and compare to both. Farcasters and tears in space and AI/singularity stuff gets mixed into this novel that's also trying to contentiously tie itself back to John Keats in any incredibly odd way, bordering on awkwardness more than some elegant allusion to humanity's constant attempts to understand life through literature and poetry.

I don't know. It just doesn't come together very well, and I feel that some of his prose is repetitive in the sense that he liked what he wrote so much that he wanted to write it again four more times, or repeat some word several times.

That Deus Ex Machina monologue was especially grating.

Am I missing the point entirely?