Cantos Hyperion

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• Cantos Hyperion 🔊

  Hyperion is The Canterbury Tales rewritten through Homer, the Bible, Greek myth, and modern science fiction — each pilgrim carrying one archetype of humanity t

  • is_parent 7 pilgrims, 7 archetypes 🔒 ·

    Martin Silenus (The Poet) — Homer archetype: epic-maker, obscene bard, immortality via art. Paul Duré (The Priest) — Teilhard de Chardin arch
  • is_parent IOTD: The Technocore 🔒

    In Cantos Hyperion, The Technocore is composed of following components: Stables — conservative AIs, understanding the importance of Humanity and organic L

    • is_parent Ummon says ... 🔒 ·

      Our UI spans galaxies uses quasars for energy sources the way you might have a light snackOur UI sees everything that is and was and will be and tells us selec
  • is_parent Illium & Olympus 🔒 ·

    Dan Simmons (b. 1947) is one of science fiction’s great masters of intertextuality.Following the four-book Hyperion Cantos (Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, End
  • is_parent Hegemony 🔒

    In the Hyperion Cantos, the Hegemony is a human interstellar civilization of roughly 250–300 worlds, bound together by the Hegira—humanity’s mass migration fro

    • is_parent Questio: The common framework 🔒 ·

      What does "Republic" in Star Wars, as well as "Empires" of  Dune and Foundation have in common with the "Hegemony" ?
  • contains Cyberpunk, solarpunk and other punkz

    • is_parent Neuromancer

      💧 Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson is the novel that defined cyberpunk. Set in a near-future global sprawl, it follows Case, a washed-up hacker navigating

      • is_parent Cyberspace 🔒 ·

        "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
    • is_parent Schismatrix

      💧 Schismatrix (1985) by Bruce Sterling is a foundational cyberpunk / post-cyberpunk novel set several centuries in the future, after humanity has spread throug

      • is_parent Shapers 🔒 ·

        💧 Shapers – humans who use genetic engineering, psychological conditioning, and biological optimization to evolve the human body and mind. They value adaptabili
      • is_parent Mechanists 🔒 ·

        💧 Mechanists – humans who embrace cybernetic implants, mechanical augmentation, and life-extension via machinery, favoring stability, durability, and engineered
    • is_parent Baroquepunk, Steampunk & co. ·

      Baroquepunk is a speculative genre where ornament, excess, and early-modern worldviews collide with systems thinking. Inspired by Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, it
    • is_parent Solarpunk ·

      💧 Solarpunk is a speculative genre and cultural movement imagining desirable futures built on renewable energy, ecological repair, and social justice. Rooted i
    • is_parent Afrofuturism 🔒 ·

      💧 Afrofuturism is a cultural and speculative framework that reimagines the past, present, and future through African and African-diasporic perspectives, blendin
    • is_parent Nanopunk 🔒 ·

      💧 Nanopunk is a speculative genre in which nanotechnology replaces industry, infrastructure, and scarcity itself, reorganizing society around control of matter
    • is_parent Berlinpunk 🔒

      Imagine Berlin in 2300 / AE330. Is it still a city or did it turn into desert ? Or jungle ? Is UdK still planning to relocate to Tempelhof ? Do foxes still roa

      • is_parent Fazit 🔒 ·

        If cyberpunk says “the future is desperate and broken” (berlin|solar)punk insists “the future is enjoyable, repairable—and worth designing together”.P.S. pleas
    • is_parent Metaverse 🔒 ·

      "So Hiro's not actually here at all. He's in a computer-generated universe that his computer is drawing onto his goggles and pumping into his earphones. In the