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I just started reading this and it feels like ive started in the middle of a series, this is the first dan simmons book ive read. Is there another book im missing?

>> No.8619014

No. Why do you have that feeling?

>> No.8619031

>>8619014
no background on the characters, it just starts with "the consul" and the other characters. no history on the planets or anything. usually these types of books tell us why the war started, where the character is from and how when they were young something happened to them that changed them forever etc etc.

>> No.8619043

>>8619031
You can't be very far in. The book is divided into sections, each one telling the backstory of an individual character. It's been likened to the structure of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

>> No.8619055

>>8618998
It's an intertextual reference to the Canterbury Tales, and not a particularly subtle one either. Essentially, Hyperion is a framing device for a series of short stories. Read it as such. Worry about the greater narrative when it's revealed to you later.

>> No.8619058

>>8619043
you are correct, i just wanted to make sure before i read any farther, didnt want to spoil it for myself (done it before)

>> No.8619062

>>8619055
gotcha

>> No.8619187

Ender's Game is better.

>> No.8619421

>>8619031
Further novels explain almost everything, too much in many people's opinion. Although the ultimate ending is a bit tacky, it's satisfying and makes sense, which not many sci-fi series can boast

>> No.8620711

>>8618998
First time reading Hyperion was a great feeling. Still have two more books to go, though.

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8620722

>Scholar's Tale

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8621469

>>8620722
>Soldier's Tale

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>>8620722
really fucked my shit up but then I remembered that they were Jews

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8621678

>>8620722
That shit made me cry.

>> No.8621689

>>8620722
Poet > Priest > Soldier > Kike > Consul > Detective
>tfw didn't get to hear Templar's tale

>> No.8621708

>>8621689
le fugging mudder bidtch :DDDD FUG hahahaha

Silenus was just an edgy faggot

>> No.8621718

>>8618998
I commend this book for portraying intergalactic humanity as the opposite of what the usual sci-fi stories like to glorify it as. I enjoyed how hopeless and dreadful it all felt.

>> No.8621874

Second Book>(By a little margin)First book>>>Fourth book>>>>>Third book