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Enjoyed this one a lot (am now reading the sequel Fall of Hyperion). Its told in the form of a series of loosely related short stories, with an overarching story going on behind them. This way of storytelling allows for a lot of different genres and emotions within one book: there's a crime mystery story, a hard sci-fi story, a romance, a military action story and others and it keeps the book fresh and interesting all the way through, and if there's a part which you don't find interesting, its easy to push through because it won't be long until the story completely changes again.
Definitely an interesting book. Endymion (and Rise of Endymion) are both enjoyable as well, but don't have the easy drop in drop out style, being written nearer to a continuous format.
ReplyDeleteI'm a big fan of the Hyperion/Endymion series - although one of the niggles I had with the first book was the 'Pilgrims Tales' - possibly as I'd already read proto versions of them in 'Prayers To Broken Stones'.
ReplyDeleteI do still think both 'The Terror' and 'Carrion Comfort' are his best works though...