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Originally Posted by montsnmags
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
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Oh, I absolutely loved the ending to Hyperion. Even without a definite resolution, I think it feels very right, as if it was really meant to end that way. Did Simmons write a sequel out of reader/publisher pressure, or was it always part of the plan? I'd be curious to know.
If there hadn't been a sequel, I would have been happy with just that one book. But yes, having one available made me want to keep reading.