The Fall of Hyperion.
SIMMONS, Dan.
The Fall of Hyperion.
"In the end - when all else is dust - loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith - true faith - was trusting in that love": First Edition of The Fall of Hyperion; Signed by Dan Simmons
New York: Doubleday, 1990.
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First edition of this novel in the Hyperion Cantos. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Boldly signed by Dan Simmons on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jamie S. Warren. Jacket illustration by Gary Ruddell.
The Fall of Hyperion (1990) is the second novel in Dan Simmons's celebrated Hyperion Cantos, the sweeping science fiction tetralogy set in a twenty-ninth-century interstellar civilization, and serves as the direct continuation and resolution of the narrative begun in Hyperion (1989). Where the first volume structured itself around the tales of seven pilgrims journeying to the mysterious Time Tombs on the planet Hyperion — a device consciously modeled on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales — The Fall of Hyperion broadens the canvas to encompass interstellar warfare, the machinations of an artificial intelligence civilization, and questions of human destiny rendered at genuinely epic scale. The New York Times Book Review called the Hyperion Cantos one of the finest achievements of modern science fiction, and The Fall of Hyperion in particular was the direct beneficiary of the series' mounting critical recognition: it won the 1991 BSFA Award for Best Novel and the 1991 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and was nominated for both the 1991 Hugo Award for Best Novel and the 1991 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
