I know there are many of these posts, but I just finished the Dan Simmons sci-fi series, Hyperion and felt the need to write this. Wow. Utterly stunned is my best description of how I feel. In awe, really, that someone could craft such a thoughtful, thought-provoking, and magnificent tale. Over 30 years ago no less!
The characters, the scope, the detail, the emotion, the ideas, OH! the ideas! How does someone come up with so many futuristic ideas, realities, visions, prophecies?
Dan Simmons, if you are out there, I’d love to interview you. I’m overwhelmed with the genius you possess, but it struck me, at the end of Rise of Endymion, that you’re describing the place where you tapped into to create this beauty - The Void Which Binds. Bravo.
Thank you for writing this series. My worldview is forever changed.
I loved Hyperion. Also enjoyed reading the Terror.
I could be mistaken, but I recall an interview or essay he wrote years ago and he was shitting all over Tom Clancy saying he wrote books for sixth graders. I rather liked Clancy’s early stuff, but later on… yeah… kinda giggled at Simmon’s take.