Cantos Hyperion

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, E...

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 from Old Ea...

Martin Silenus (The Poet) — Homer archetype: epic-maker, obscene bard, immortality via art. Paul Duré (The Priest) — Teilhard de Chardin archetype: faith, su...

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