Endymion
by Dan Simmons · first published 1995
33% recommend53% neutral13% critical
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A space opera set in a far-future galaxy where humanity has spread across the stars and advanced AIs have become sentient. It continues the Hyperion series.
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Dan Simmons's Hyperion was an immediate sensation on its first publication in 1989. This staggering multifaceted tale of the far future heralded the conquest of the science fiction field by a man who had already won the World Fantasy Award for his first novel (Song of Kali) and had also published one of the most well-received horror novels in the field, Carrion Comfort. Hyperion went on to win the Hugo Award as Best Novel, and it and its companion volume, The Fall of Hyperion, took their rightful places in the science fiction pantheon of new classics. Now, six years later, Simmons returns
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…Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison Stories of Your Life by Ted Chiang Like Brothers by Mark and Jay Duplass A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr Endymion by Dan Simmons Hyperion by Dan Simmons A few classics that I'd never read before. Really great year of books for me.
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?” ↗In the absolutely epic space opera "Hyperion" (and its sequel "Endymion") the author Dan Simmons theorizes -- through the plot, not through a monologue! -- that AI creatures would offer us tech that we could never invent -- impossibly minituarized personal computers (the…
on “The Last Invention of Man” ↗…preference which of these are the best, but I'm curious how other readers feel about a couple of these (potentially contrarian views): 1. Speaker For the Dead is my favorite of the Ender stuff. 2. I like Endymion duo better than Hyperion. (maybe my favorite ever, actually) 3. The Stand is also an all-time great to me, especially in light of current events. 4. I think the author should read more Niven - I guess…
on “Science Fiction Books I’ve Read (2018)” ↗…my favourite science fiction series now, and I’ve already felt the need to go back and re-read passages from it. Also really enjoy how each part of the series (Hyperion, then Fall of Hyperion, then the Endymion books) re-invent the style and the story. - The Annotated American Gods (Gaiman, Klinger): 1000’s of footnotes is a great way to revisit the story :)
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024” ↗I second the opinion, although I loved the second two, the Endymion books best.
on “The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity” ↗…series that are loosely connected, and then there are series that are practically a single work, like the LotR trilogy. The Hyperion cantos is similar to LotR that way. It sounds like you heard the Endymion pair are rubbish and avoided reading them. Wherever you heard that, they're not. Look at the ratings on goodreads[1], for instance. You're talking about them as if the Endymion volumes fell off a cliff…
on “Books to Read in a Lifetime” ↗I can't resist chiming in with another Endymion reference: the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons. Fantastic series.
on “Be Kind” ↗> 2. I like Endymion duo better than Hyperion. (maybe my favorite ever, actually) Strong agree. The technical term for the advantage the Endymion books had is "a coherent plot". Also, using human reconstitution as a way…
on “Science Fiction Books I’ve Read (2018)” ↗Foundation is great. Dune (original 6 books). All of Iain M Banks sci fi. Alastair Reynolds’ books. Dan Simmons’ Endymion series.
on “Neal Stephenson – Announcing Termination Shock” ↗Hyperion and Endymion by Dan Simmons are quite good. It's set in the far future, when humans have colonized the whole Galaxy, and AIs have become so advanced that they are sentient and have their own world, somewhat parallel…
on “Good science fiction books about intelligence, AI, artificial life forms, etc.?” ↗…incentive to think otherwise. From my perspective, the reading experience on TheArchive's lending experience is sufficiently degraded that I am unlikely to choose it over other options. I tried looking up Endymion by Dan Simmons to see if I could check it out and read on my Kobo. Firstly, I can't without a great deal of difficulty, due to the DRM. Secondly, what I check out is not the same designed-for-ebooks format…
on “Internet Archive responds: Why we released the National Emergency Library” ↗…practitioners but to be skeptical about us being too skeptical as well, so to speak? For all we know, there might exist a soul, consciousness, or a "hollistic wave front" as Dan Simmons in Hyperion / Endymion calls it, and it might as well operate exactly on one of the quantum fields of reality. (It might be a very fine and huge collection of mega-complex algorithms that work on a quantum plane same way our…
on “What a Sensory Isolation Tank Taught Me About My Brain” ↗Is this a common view? About to start fall of Hyperion. I thought people generally liked it and the Endymion books?
on “Amazon developing three new sci-fi series: Lazarus, Snow Crash and Ringworld” ↗I think this is referenced in the sci-fi book Fall of Endymion by Dan Simmons, where some characters spend time in a historical desert town built by a community headed by an architect. I always thought it was some sort of Frank Lloyd Wright reference, because I…
on “Arcosanti” ↗LOTR - By the time I finished it I already forgot details of the beginning, probably have read it 4 or 5 times over 3 decades. Hyperion series. I got it in an uneven way, first the 3rd Book (Endymion), many years later Hyperion (I still think that by itself is one of the best books that I've ever read, and read it many times), and after more years, finally found locally the other 2 books, and read…
on “Ask HN: What book have you re-read 3x or more?” ↗