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reading them right now senpai

>not thinking Priest's tale was far and away the best

Seriously, the biggest problem with this book was the best story was in the beginning and then they trended downward until the infuriating cliffhanger ending. I still liked it though.

is Fall of Hyperion good?

Hey this is the book that nagato gave to kyon!

She has top-tier taste for a data entity

Agreed.

Parochial bitching about a good but not great work in a slowly decaying genre almost no one reads? COUNT ME IN.

Ehh, Hyperion tries a little too hard to be literary, when all it had to do was be Aniara, or a Wolfe work. Either of which would be the simplest thing to do. Hyperion has some supporters among some of the top-tier readers on Veeky Forums, but I think in most of those cases, they read it before reaching the age of discernment, and rank it higher than it deserves out of nostalgic compulsion. It's more like a 6/10 desu. Good ideas, and the first story is flawless, but the rest of it needed rearrangement and polish.

Meh.
After entire Lovecraft bibliography i dropped Hyperion at 80% and don't feel like coming back for it. It's like Space Opera if not science fantasy.
And author appears to be seriously sexually frustrated.
Poet>Priest>detective>piss>shit>soldier
Soldier was total shit, maybe it actually is what disappointed me in the book.
Nagato Yuki is basically borrowed from Hyperion's Detective's Tale, except that Hyperion's Yuki was male and wasn't dandere.

Guys I just finished fucking Blindsight.
Blindsight was 10/10 but now i'm all out of Blindsight.
What do I read now?
Solid fiction is where it's all at.

Some of the chapters are really damn good, most are terrible.

Haven't been motivated enough to buy the second book to see happens.

>Blindsight was 10/10 but now i'm all out of Blindsight.
Try The Sparrow by Mary Russell, if you already haven't. It's an exceptional work along the same theme. I've only seen it mentioned a couple of times on Veeky Forums, which is strange because it's probably the best example of its subgenre.

I don't disagree with you about Yuki, but Yuki is another version of the general android archetype, which was written about long before and long after Hyperion. I don't think she's borrowed specifically from the book, but the TechnoCore is. Moreso than it would be borrowed from Terminator, in its modus operandi and scale.

Good, more people who don't blindly praise it.

I always liked the Scholar's Tale. It had some interesting religious discussion while also being a bit touching.

Really mature!

That one is probably the best after The Priest's Tale, I have almost no complaints about it.

>The correct answer for Abraham was to plagiarize Kierkegaard, thought Sol.

>tfw intelligent enough to realise that Consul had the best story
Consul > Poet > Priest > Jew > Detective > Allahu Akbar

Kassad's story is the most discussed around the internet for some reason. Probably due to that hentai bit.

I'd rank
Symbiotic cruciform > Nerd and daughter > Judas > Satyr Falstaff > Android Keats > Razor vagina

Priest>Consul=Poet>Scholar>Soldier>Detective

I've finally decided to stop coming here. Thanks for helping out.

You won't be missed faggot.

I like to just stick to the scifi general and a select few other threads. The rest of the board is cancer and cares way too much about seeming smart and not enough about reading books

>You won't be missed faggot.
I already left, so I wasn't able to read this insult.

W-wanna be friends?

What else is worthwhile from Simmons? I wanna read Song of Kali soon.

>I like to hang around the /ghetto/ general that cares way too much about their infantile daydreams and not enough about being fully developed adults.

Drood is his most 'literary' work for you hipsters.
Terror is also really good. Carrion Comfort is what Stephen King wishes he could write. Flashback is /pol/:the book if thats your thing.

Because autistically screeching about this and that author being a 'hack' is the behavior of a fully developed adult.

proving my point motherfucker

It's good, but practically everyone agrees the series goes to shit. Doesn't make the first 2 books any less enjoyable tho.

> Guys I just finished fucking Blindsight.
> Blindsight was 10/10 but now i'm all out of Blindsight.
> What do I read now?

You've just read the most important SF book of this millennium. I have nothing to offer.

No, you're merely maintaining your level of discourse at the level of an awkward frogposter. /sffg/ has good posters, as does the rest of Veeky Forums's cliques. As far as I can tell, you're neither.

Beginning of Consul's tale is where i dropped.
Did it get much better?
Is it just me sperging out or did Simmons write the book with his dick in the other hand?
Like really i would want to hear more about Aliens and shit than what exactly is happening with kebab dick when he's banging a death cyborg from future.

Shit

Right back at you.

what are the other best ones of this millenium?

>dropped 40 pages before the end

Not really. I can see past my situation but you have yet to do the same.

He could have stopped at the end of the priest's tale and would have been fine. Hyperion's end isn't a real ending anyway.

By that moment i felt like the good story of priest's tale and good writing of Poet is over and now i'm ready some low grade porn.

I'm not the one trying to posture as some intellectual 'able to see past my situation.' You just sound like a delusional kid who's mad because I said I preferred to stick to a couple thread generals. You're just as bereft of insight as me, but at least I don't claim to have more depth than I do

No, my point was that you're awkward and introverted in the worst way, and tried to tout /sffg/ as something better than it is, when it's just more of the same pandering, contentious garbage that fills the rest of this board. Again, there are good posters across all of Veeky Forums, and if you can't see that, you're hopeless.

>Flashback
Lol this sounds pretty fascinating, not gonna lie. Think I'll get around to some of his other material before embarking on that though. Thanks.

well I guess I'm doomed to a life of intellectual mediocrity, ah man! I hope you'll remember to write after you get the Man Booker.

At least when I talk about books in sffg, I don't feel like everybody's trying to make me feel like shit for not having read enough pre-Socratics before discussing the book I'm reading. Maybe there's a few good posters elsewhere on the board, but in my experience, 90 percent of them are stupid children pretending to be Nabokov. I would rather be a huge pleb who likes books than a juvenile pedant who hates them

Lmao idiot

Where did the greek memers and nabokov anons touch you?

You really have no intention to read from either? Stay perma pleb.

I've read both actually, to varying degrees, but that's not point

So next to nothing, and now you want to hide your shame.

I don't think one should have to read either areas as a prerequisite to be considered well read, but you sound immensely full of butthurt.

yeah, and conversations like these are exactly why.

Maybe instead of always bringing your butthurt into conversations, try doing something more productive?

I'm probably going to be killing myself in the next couple weeks anyway, so don't worry about it

I did think that the scenes involving aliens needed expansion, but the preposterous sex scenes needed to be there. For better or for worse. Simmons needed to include at least one scene for boring people blather about, to keep himself relevant for decades to come. There are few better ways to cement one's reputation than by controversy.

it's ok user, that other faggot was just trying to get a rise out of you, don't take it personally. I agree with you that people are far too pretentious here, but arguing with them is only going to frustrate you more, all they care about is thinking that they're right. Don't kill yourself, hang out with us in the general.

he made his choice leaning on killing himself. are you telling him what to do? you're just another fascist trying to frustrate him, hypocrite.

Please stop, I'm trying to console somebody who is obviously depressed.

Sorry but you needed to just end properly without Fall of Hyperion ever happening.

>What do I read now?

Read the sequel. It's worst in every way, but it's OK.

Or read the Rifters books. The first two are very good and the third is OK.

is FoH bad? I only read da first one

All Cantos books are good, but the series has the same problem as Dune, where the first book sets a standard that is never reached, so every subsequent one feels like a small dissappointment

The first books of Dune and Hyperion are both mediocre as well, though much more entertaining than their sequels.