Author

Publication

1991 - Bantam, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

129,250 words, Guess

Page Count

517 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC818 S5923c

Description

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope--and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.

First Sentence

On the day the armada went off to war, on the last day of life as we knew it, I was invited to a party.

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Series Statement

  • Bantam spectra book

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  • The fall of HyperionBantam1991-01-01
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