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SUMMARY:HYPERION - Dan Simmons (Hugo & Locus Award winner)
DESCRIPTION:On the world called Hyperion\, beyond the law of the Hegemony o
 f Man\, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who wo
 rship 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 str
 uctures move backward through time\, the Shrike waits for them all. On the
  eve of Armageddon\, with the entire galaxy at war\, seven pilgrims set fo
 rth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved ridd
 les of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope—and a terrible secret.
  And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.\n\nHyperion is the fi
 rst of a much-heralded two-part work -- including the The Fall of Hyperion
 --about the last days of a vibrant yet self-destructive galactic civilizat
 ion of humans called the Hegemony. The Hegemony is doomed because in excha
 nge for the knowledge needed to conquer the stars\, the human species sold
  its soul to a hive of machine-based intelligence known as Technocore. Six
  people embark on a pilgrimage to Hyperion\, their only hope for redemptio
 n\, to seek the help of the Shrike\, a half- mechanical\, half-organic cre
 ature that inspires both terror and devotion in its subjects. The book won
  the 1990 Hugo Award for Science Fiction.\n\n\n\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Intergalactic
LOCATION:Henry's Cafe Bar\, 80 Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 8HX\, United Kingd
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