Hyperion

Summary

Seven pilgrims travel toward the distant world of Hyperion and the mysterious Time Tombs, each telling their own story along the way in a structure modeled on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Simmons blends space opera, theology, and literary homage, weaving threads about the lethal creature called the Shrike and the poet John Keats throughout. The novel opens the sweeping Hyperion Cantos and stands among the most ambitious science fiction works of its era.