The Hyperion Cantos (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Dan Simmons
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—artificial intelligence
- Time of Work: The distant future
- Setting: The planet Hyperion, cyberspace, and various unidentified planetary locations
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Other worlds, Artificial intelligence
- Locales: Fictional planets
The Plot
The two books of The Hyperion Cantos take their titles and themes from two unfinished poems by the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) that deal with the displacement in Greek mythology of the old gods, the Titans, by the new gods, the Olympians. In Dan Simmons’ work, Old Earth has been destroyed by a black hole, and humans are spread across two hundred worlds and moons scattered throughout a thousand light-years in space. Communication and travel are achieved through fatlines and farcasters, operated by Technocore Artificial Intelligences, who inhabit...
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