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Originally Posted by Badandy
Just finished Hyperion. I enjoyed it, but what I didn't enjoy was the fact that it stopped at a cliff-hanger. Not just any cliffhanger; a cliffhanger that delays, until the next book, what I assumed the entire book was about (the meeting of the pilgrims and the Shrike).
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I'm a fan of the entire series, which is four mass market paperback volumes. I strongly recommended to a friend that he read Hyperion. He did, but was utterly incensed to discover it was the first half of a two book publication, and was so infuriated he refused to read anything else Simmons wrote. I told him it wasn't the
author's fault if the publisher was stupid, and he really should read the other parts, but to no avail.
I see Bantam Spectra never did correct that failure to label the book as part one of two.
Simmons is adept at peeling layers back like an onion. When you get to Endymion and The Rise of Endymion, you discover that things are nowhere near what you assumed they were.
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Dennis