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I always hoped to see a Hyperion movie, now without his guidance it’ll come out and suck.
SyFy (not its predecessor) had rights to it, but it never came to light. The Shrike is so hard to depict. Perhaps HBO or another with deep coffers could make it happen.
IMO the Shrike is kind of unimportant to most of the storytelling. You could almost just narrate it and show shadows of a distant figure. It’s the stalking threat that gives mystery and weight to the decisions of the characters to make the pilgrimage.
I always found the physical description of the Shrike to be one of the silliest aspects of the story.
That really sucks. Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion are some of my favorite sci-fi books.
The next two books in the series got weirder because of the character’s ages… That part doesn’t hold up.
Well shit, I was going to circle back around to them in not too long.
Well shit. I wish the best for his loved ones. 77 is too young for sure.
Is it? 77 feels just right to me for the end. Not too old to be decrepit, not young enough to regret it.
Without Dan Simmons and Hyperion, sci-fi literature would’ve been still been regarded as disposable paperbacks. Simmons did away with the trappings of early pulp sci-fi that held a shadow over the genre for many decades. Instead, Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion took the shape of the Western Canon and could be discussed as serious literature. Without spoiling too much, I remember reading the story of Sol Weintraub and his daughter and almost being brought to tears; something that no other book, regardless of genre, has done.
Rest well, scribe. Asimov, Heinland, Clarke, Herbert and, of course, Keats. You’ll be in good company
Sol’s story is incredible, but the priest’s tale is the single best horror fiction ever written imo.
