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A stunning tour de force, this Hugo Award-winning novel is the first volume in a remarkable new science fiction epic by the author of The Hollow Man.
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Hugo for Nothing,
By barbre (Colorado) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hyperion (Mass Market Paperback)
I have been on a reading quest to catch up with previous Hugo award winners. Having just finished the impressive Virnor Vinge novels I was anxious to continue my trek of great Science Fiction.Hyperion is not a novel. That is the first thing a potential reader should realize. It is a collection of six short stories, each of which has an ending that requires the main character to meet a bug-eyed-multi-armed-time-traveling monster on the planet Hyperion. As a plotting ploy this is great, most of the characters have interesting stories to tell and you end up waiting impatiently to see what happens when they meet the monster. They don't. I don't feel I'm spoiling the ending, because there is none. The entire set of stories ends with the "pilgrims" stepping foot on the monsters temple. Absolutely nothing is resolved in this novel. It isn't a question of disliking the ending, it is a question of where is the ending? Some might call it a cliffhanger, I would just call it a waste of time. Having wasted too much time on this novel I cannot justify spending more money on the sequel. I have not guarentee that it will resolve anything or just be another setup to sell more books. I'm disgusted that this "novel" is considered a Hugo winner in the company of such wonderful novels like "A Fire Upon the Deep" and "A Deepness in the Sky".
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Why this book is over-rated garbage!,
By David Perez (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hyperion (Mass Market Paperback)
Well to start, I never post comments, and only sign up so i can express my true feeling having read this unimaginative garbage. i've seen all the review, and my honest opinion is that book lacks the luster that is usually expected of an award winning book (just goes to show that anyone can win an award these days).The book starts with the author gathering all the pilgrims in a pilgrammage to the planet Hyperion. All the action that occurs to reach there destination could have been summed up in 100pgs or less, but it isn't--and why not? Well, the author (who people think is a genius) decides to fill the rest of the book with the pilgrims each telling their stories--each more boring than the rest. The story of the priest was interesting, but unmoving; the story of the military man was stupid space-military drama, and the poets story was a boring yarn. All in all, nothing worth remembering happens because the story is left at a cliffhanger. If i knew this book was going to be a cliffhanger, i would have asked my [money amount] back and gone with buying a more worthy book. I recommend Dune if your looking for a story filled with intrigue and conspiracies.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Caveat emptor, caveat lector,
By A Customer
This review is from: Hyperion (Mass Market Paperback)
A would-be Foundation or Dune-style epic. The style is tedious and wooden. The story is not particularly imaginative though it has a number of pleasant conceits, ranging from the Canterbury Tales format of the first volume, to the various obsessive exploitations of Keats themes in the second, the zen koans of an AI nammed Ummon, and a pastiche of a famous scene from Romeo and Juliet. The author appears to be a widely-read magpie - occasionally a confused one, mistaking Brahe for Kepler. If his prose style were bearable, it could be quite entertaining. While I prefer writers with a good style, such as Bradbury or Kim Stanley Robinson, or those who aspire to one, like Dick and Bester, still I'm perfectly happy with Herbert's Dune and Card's Ender series, which are adequately executed and reflect the authors' real commitments to their constructed worlds. In other words, as someone once said (Shaw?) "fortunately, I am a man of low tastes". But not low enough for this. The world of the book is unconvincing, and seems to be based on broad familiarity with the themes of science fiction rather than any internal vision, salted lightly with uninspired sex and violence (not always easily distinguishable) when all invention flags. Even the author seems to have succumbed to the tedium well before the end. The book seems to be immensely popular. It won the Hugo Award, which is a "fan's award", as opposed to the Nebula Award, given by professionals. The Hugo went to Harry Potter this year, which in itself speaks volumes. On the other hand, when the Hugo ballots are counted, they have more submissions for the tv/movie award than for the novel award, which suggests that the generic fans' notion of SF is fundamentally non-literate.
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