Dan Simmons · series
Hyperion Cantos books in order
A far-future science-fiction series concerning humanity, the Hegemony, the Time Tombs, and the Shrike.
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- 1 Hyperion
Book 1 · novel · 1989
A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable epic by the multiple-award-winning author of The…
- 2 The Fall of Hyperion
Book 2 · novel · 1990
The mysterious Time Tombs are opening and the Shrike that has risen from them may well control the fate of all mankind. The Ousters are laying seige to the Hegemony of Man and the AIs we created have turned against us to build the…
- 3 Endymion
Book 3 · novel · 1996
Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With hel from a…
- 4 The Rise of Endymion
Book 4 · novel · 1997
The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her…
