This is a big deal for me as it shows the creative talent of the author as well as the devotion to make the story more grand, engulfing, and mesmerizing to say the least. The big difference here is that Dan Simmons changes the writing style mid-story while Glen Cook changes the writing style after each book. Dan Simmons actually changes his writing style to match the character being presented and the only other author I have know to do this is Glen Cook when I read his Black Company series. The flashback chapters told by each pilgrim has a distinct voice, tone, and pacing that is unique to each character. This is where Dan Simmons really shines as an author.
Each pilgrim has come into contact with the Shrike and over the course of the novel, we will hear their tales told through flashback chapters to the end. On the eve when the entire galaxy set to be destroyed, a final voyage is set to embark on a mission to Hyperion with seven pilgrims. No body knows what the ancient creature is nor what its motivations are, but the sense of dread, terror, and mystery follow everywhere it goes.
The trip to the Tombs has also brought great peril as the Shrike waits on the horizon.
On the world of Hyperion, the legendary Time Tombs have been sought after and investigated by many different individuals. The galaxy is at war and factions are fighting for resources in the farthest corners. This is one of the best Sci-fi books I have ever read and worthy of both the Hugo award and as a staple of the genre. Dan Simmons also does something very unique in the way the story is told and I will go into more detail in my review. Dan Simmons wrote Hyperion with such beauty and imagination that you can’t help but be swept away. Hyperion is a classic Sci-fi novel set hundreds of years in the future. It wasn’t until a close friend told me about the amazing experience he had reading Hyperion and how it would be just the read I was looking for did I decide to do a deep dive. I was told to start with the classics of Dune, Foundation, and the Book of the New Sun. I consider myself a beginner when it comes to the massive expanse that is the Sci-fi genre. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands. Each carries a desperate hope-and a terrible secret. 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. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike.
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