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Old 03-01-2026, 05:15 PM   #1
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Dan Simmons has passed at age 77
I really enjoyed the Hyperion Cantos, sad to hear this:
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Old 03-01-2026, 06:36 PM   #2
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That IS sad. I lost interest in a lot of his later works, but the Hyperion books were game-changers for me.
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Old 03-02-2026, 07:32 AM   #3
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Well, this is startling news - to me.

A drink and a re-read of Song of Kali and/or Carrion Comfort. (The latter is available on Amazon's [U.S.] KU, by the way.)
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Hyperion Cantos were amazing, although after a few bad experiences I'm weary of reading anything he wrote after 9/11.
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I'm giving the 4 Hyperion Cantos books a re-read. I've only read one of his later books and The Abominable was, to me, rather disappointing (think it was 2013?).
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I'd loved his Shrike character, and the Cantos of Martin Silenus, the cybrid Keats (A. Bettik), the idea of the "Tombs of Time", and the juxtaposition within the time-travels (faster-than-light and time-debts) characteristics (Shrike and the TechnoCore also shows a kind of that feature)..
Liked the covers made for the translated versions, too:
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Didn't watched this one: https://blogger.googleusercontent.co...aUNr5vq=s16000
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