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[Mister Apoc]

masterful work, best sci fi novel i have ever read, might rate it above Dune

 

[Tesseract]

Shrike - Wikipedia

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[Nester99]

Space Pope is best Pope

 

[Tesseract]

it's damn good

played through the audiobook a couple times, forget the narrator's name but it the same fellow who spoke through i am legend

 

[Mister Apoc]

it's damn good

played through the audiobook a couple times, forget the narrator's name but it the same fellow who spoke through i am legend

I know Dan Simmons has questionable politics but there is no denying the man is a masterful writer

his horror book Carrion Comfort is amazing as well

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[HarryKS]

Why? What's it about? What makes it good?

 

[thequestion]

it’s part of a 4 book series, right? Hyperion is awesome - how do the others stack up?

 

[thequestion]

I know Dan Simmons has questionable politics but there is no denying the man is a masterful writer

his horror book Carrion Comfort is amazing as well

Carrion Comfort - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Is this book like Scanners? The synopsis sounds like the movie Scanners.

 

[Tesseract]

there's some overlap there, somewhere between foundation and scanners

it's a fun concept

 

[Ballthyrm]

It's really good, i wouldn't put it above the 3 Body Problem or Foundation.
My favorite Sci-Fi of the last decade would go to anything Ted Chiang has written.

That man is a master. Old school sci-Fi were the Ideas are vast and the implications are not ignored.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam

I don't think Hyperion qualify in that category for me. Even if it is a great book.

 

[Echelon]

The first half of the first book of the cantos was good. The rest was muddled nonsense.

Also, this exists:

 

[Ar¢tos]

it’s part of a 4 book series, right? Hyperion is awesome - how do the others stack up?

The first 2 books are great. After that.... things start to get increasingly convuluted and messed up. Time travel paradox and parallel dimensions style of messed up (I mean much much more than the 1st 2 books).
I read almost the whole 3rd book before I gave up and googled the rest of the story, because it was starting to stretch too much into crazy (if you consider what happens in the 1st 2 books as "normal").

 

[McHuj]

I only read the first book. I really like the Canterbury Tales style of the story telling in the book. But from what I remember, it ended on a cliff hanger that pissed me off and I didn't bother to finish the series.

Any other books that are similar to this? I'm not necessarily looking for hard sci-fi, more of a creepy sci-fi that this booked seemed to have.

 

[Mossybrew]

OP you are off your rocker. Hyperion is "meh this is aright I guess I will finish it" level.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

I always see Hyperion mentioned but I admit it didn't do much for me.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

I'll take something like this instead OP -

 

[Bolivar687]

It's certainly up there. It's maybe the most "literary" of the sci fi classics I've read. The first two are so good that I can't bring myself to check out Endymion, because it was such an incredible complete story.

I know Dan Simmons has questionable politics but there is no denying the man is a masterful writer

I don't know if I would say questionable, he's just another red-pilled leftist. His 2012 diatribe on Obama was pretty prophetic of the Obama-Trump vote in 2016. Unfortunately it looks like its no longer available, as his official website says "Account Suspended."

Space Pope is best Pope

Speaking of which, Canticle for Leibowitz is up there for me, even if its more firmly in the post-apocalyptic subgenre.

 

[teezzy]

Never read Hyperion or Dune yet, but I'm partial to Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. At just under 200 pages, the book is a brisk read, but for a collection of short stories it truly feels like a comprehensive work. The book is comprised of various short stories, all of which all take place on Mars, involving the Martian civilians' daily lives, and their interactions with the Earthlings who repeatedly seek to make contact with them. Due to being comprised of multiple stories, the narrative is constantly changing perspective, and has this very 'slice of life' vibe to it. One of the first novels I read as a kid, and I hold a lot of reverence for it as a result.