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Hyperion è un romanzo di fantascienza pubblicato nel 1989 dallo scrittore statunitense Dan Simmons. Si tratta del primo capitolo del ciclo di fantascienza moderna i Canti di Hyperion. Ha vinto il Premio Hugo quale miglior romanzo nel 1990 .
I Canti di Hyperion (The Hyperion Cantos) è una tetralogia di romanzi di fantascienza scritta da Dan Simmons e pubblicata tra il 1989 e il 1997. I romanzi che compongono il ciclo sono: Hyperion (id., 1989) La caduta di Hyperion (The Fall of Hyperion, 1990) Endymion (id., 1995) Il risveglio di Endymion (The Rise of Endymion, 1997).
- Premise
- Part One, The Priest's Tale: "The Man Who Cried God"
- Part Two, The Soldier's Tale: "The War Lovers"
- Part Three, The Poet's Tale: "Hyperion Cantos"
- Part Four, The Scholar's Tale: "The River Lethe's Taste Is Bitter"
- Part Five, The Detective's Tale: "The Long Good-Bye"
- Part Six, The Consul's Tale: "Remembering Siri"
- Epilogue
In c. 2732, the Hegemony of Man comprises hundreds of planets connected by farcaster portals. The Hegemony maintains an uneasy alliance with the TechnoCore, a civilization of AIs. Modified humans known as Ousters live in space stations between stars and are engaged in conflict with the Hegemony. Numerous "Outback" planets have no farcasters and can...
Paul Duré and Lenar Hoyt are Catholicpriests. Duré is exiled to Hyperion. He researches an isolated civilization known as the Bikura. Duré deduces that the Bikura have been infected with cross-shaped parasites called cruciforms. After death, the cruciform rebuilds the physical body and resurrects them. Duré encounters the Shrike and is infected wit...
Colonel Fedmahn Kassad's tale begins with a flashback to his days training in the FORCE military academy on Mars. During a simulation battle, a mysterious woman saves Kassad and becomes his lover. Kassad hijacks an Ouster shuttle and crashes it onto Hyperion. There he is reunited with his lover Moneta. Kassad sees the Tree of Pain, a gigantic steel...
Martin Silenus trained as a poet, but his training was interrupted when a black hole destroyed Earth. Silenus is forced to work as a laborer. During this time, he starts work on his Hyperion Cantos, his magnum opus. His Dying Earthseries becomes an enormous hit, making him a multi-billionaire. Silenus joins Sad King Billy on Hyperion. Billy is an a...
Sol Weintraub, a Jewish professor, is present on the pilgrimage with his infant daughter Rachel. Twenty years ago, Weintraub's adult daughter became an archaeologist and went to Hyperion. While mapping one of the Tombs, the Shrike appears; Rachel contracts a disease which causes her to age backwards. Weintraub wrestles for years with dreams in whic...
Brawne Lamia is a private investigator. Her current client is a cybrid (a human body controlled by a TechnoCore AI) named Johnny. She and Johnny are forcibly farcastto a planet that seems to be a perfect replica of Old Earth. They become lovers. Lamia and Johnny undertake a virtual reality heist on the TechnoCore. They discover that the Core AIs ar...
The Consul tells the story of Merin Aspic and Siri. Aspic engages in several voyages aboard a spaceship to build a farcaster portal on Maui-Covenant, connecting it to the Hegemony and its waiting hordes of tourists. Eventually he falls in love with Siri. Each time they meet, Merin and Siri age at different speeds due to time dilation. This differen...
The pilgrims decide to continue their journey to meet the Shrike. The narrative abruptly ends as they approach the Time Tombs, which now emit an unusual glow, across the desert plain.
- Dan Simmons
- 1989
Hyperion: I canti di Hyperion – Libro uno di due. XXVIII SECOLO. SUL PIANETA HYPERION STANNO PER APRIRSI LE TOMBE DEL TEMPO. VI SI DIRIGONO SETTE PELLEGRINI IN CERCA DI RISPOSTE. AD ATTENDERLI TROVERANNO LO SHRIKE, MOSTRUOSA E TERRIFICANTE CREATURA….
Alla vigilia dell’Armageddon, sette pellegrini affrontano un ultimo viaggio verso Hyperion, in cerca delle risposte agli enigmi della loro vita. Ognuno di loro deve raccontare agli altri la propria storia, per farsi conoscere e dimostrare di non essere una spia.
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HYPERION: Dopo la misteriosa sparizione della Terra, l’umanità si è espansa nella Galassia creando l’Egemonia. Quasi tutti i mondi abitati sono connessi da teletrasporto, tramite la Rete gestita dal TecnoNucleo, le intelligenze artificiali autocoscienti ormai indipendenti.
Hyperion. Condividi. XXVIII secolo, l’umanità si è espansa in tutta la galassia che percorre in viaggi istantanei attraverso i portali e le singolarità; tutto ciò però ha causato la distruzione della Terra.
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