Here she has gained access to an information matrix created by the Others the same mysterious Others who moved Old Earth to save it from the Core. Her protector, Raul Endymion, onetime shepherd and convicted murderer, finds her in exile undergoing a strange apprenticeship on Old Earth. The Church is allied with the infamous AI Core, which has offered immortality to humankind or at least to those faithful who pledge total obedience to the Church but at what terrible price? The Core has its own dark motives and secrets, and only Aenea knows what they are. Her name is Aenea and she is the only person who can counter the pope and his plan to unleash the Pax Fleet, the Church’s military wing, on a final genocidal Crusade to gain total dominion over the universe. The final chapter of this magnificent saga begins with two momentous events: the death and resurrection of Pope Julius XV and the coming of age of the new messiah.
Brilliant, provocative, unfailingly inventive, the odyssey began with the Hugo Award winning Hyperion, continued through the critically acclaimed The Fall of Hyperion and Endymion, and now ascends to its greatest heights yet… In The Rise of Endymion, Dan Simmons brings to a triumphant conclusion one of the most celebrated, compelling, and dramatic science fiction sagas of our time. Endymion is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror an instant candidate for the field’s highest honors. Now, six years later, Simmons returns to this richly imagined world of technological achievement, excitement, wonder and fear. Hyperion went on to win the Hugo Award as Best Novel, and it and its companion volume, The Fall of Hyperion, took their rightful places in the science fiction pantheon of new classics. This staggering multifaceted tale of the far future heralded the conquest of the science fiction field by a man who had already won the World Fantasy Award for his first novel Song of Kali and had also published one of the most well received horror novels in the field, Carrion Comfort. Dan Simmons’s Hyperion was an immediate sensation on its first publication in 1989. The multiple award winning science fiction master returns to the universe that is his greatest triumph the world of Hyperion and The Fall ofHyperion with a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors.
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