What does Veeky Forums think about this?
Rest of cantos too
Now that the dust has settled
Cameron Campbell
Ayden Rogers
I haven't read a lot of sci fi, I read this series in junior and senior year of high school, Dune over the nest summer, and the Forever War at some point. In college I made the transition to literary fiction and never looked back.
It's excellent stuff for post Star Wars I think, he did as best as he could to come up with new concepts, and the fact that the book had a stronger literary bent than most sci fi helped (particularly the Canterbury Tales style of the first book).
Dune is Shit.
The Forever War was better than both of them.
Cameron Evans
Only read the first one. Was pretty good stuff. I liked how different each portion of the book felt as the characters changed. Story was meh.
Christian Morris
Priest > Poet > Scholar > Consul > Detective > Soldier
I enjoyed Fall of Hyperion a bit more, Keats is a great character
Nathaniel Jones
Priest > POWER GAP > all other
Priest got me REALLY into the idea of Hyperion and then rest of people fucked it all up.
Evan White
>Dune is shit
Objectively wrong
Anyway, ill read forever war once I finish 2,3,4 of cantos (only halfway through 2 now)
They say that Endymion is gay tho
Sebastian Rivera
Objectively the most imaginitive work of science fiction ever created, I wish Dan Simmons wrote more sci-fi and less gay quasi-historical shit
Isaiah Barnes
when i was reading hyperion, i got the impression that he wrote it while blazing weed. a bunch of grass references made this strikingly obvious.
William Morris
Stopped at the book where the protagonist was grooming a little girl to have sex with later. But it's okay because the kid was grooming him... ??
Anyway, series needs to be rewritten in some places.
Michael Rogers
Are you talking about the planet where time went differently from ship above it? How was he grooming her? They just happened to met when she was a kid. And in the end she turned out older than him.