Brilliant, provocative, unfailingly inventive, the odyssey began with the Hugo Award winning Hyperion, continued through the critically acclaimed The Fall of Hyperion and Endymion, and now ascends to its greatest heights yet… In The Rise of Endymion, Dan Simmons brings to a triumphant conclusion one of the most celebrated, compelling, and dramatic science fiction sagas of our time. Endymion is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror an instant candidate for the field’s highest honors. Now, six years later, Simmons returns to this richly imagined world of technological achievement, excitement, wonder and fear. Hyperion went on to win the Hugo Award as Best Novel, and it and its companion volume, The Fall of Hyperion, took their rightful places in the science fiction pantheon of new classics. This staggering multifaceted tale of the far future heralded the conquest of the science fiction field by a man who had already won the World Fantasy Award for his first novel Song of Kali and had also published one of the most well received horror novels in the field, Carrion Comfort. Dan Simmons’s Hyperion was an immediate sensation on its first publication in 1989. The multiple award winning science fiction master returns to the universe that is his greatest triumph the world of Hyperion and The Fall ofHyperion with a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors.
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