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Originally Posted by bookfiend
I haven't posted in quite some time, so I thought I'd get back into the forums with this thread. 
I just finished Hyperion, by Dan Simmons, and have now moved on to its sequel, The Fall of Hyperion (impossible not to read the second book, given how the first one ends!). As a sci-fi geek who is also a lit professor, I love the way Simmons blends meditations on literature into his stories. Hyperion is very much a futuristic Canterbury Tales, with a good dash of Romanticism (Keats, of course) added. |
When I first read
Hyperion, there was no sequel, and it was never premised that there would be one. Given there is a second (and third, and fourth) book, I totally agree that if you read Hyperion it'd be nigh on impossible not to continue, but I find it interesting that I utterly loved Hyperion and how it ended, even (or especially) while thinking it a self-contained, not to be continued novel.
I am less enamoured of his
Ilium/Olympos duology, though I'd have happily read an entire novel based around dialogue between the moravecs Mahnmut and Orphu.
Cheers,
Marc