HYPERION CANTOS SET [Three Volumes: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion] [Signed]

Simmons, Dan

ISBN 10: 1596064692 / ISBN 13: 9781596064690

Published by Subterranean Press, Burton, MI, 2012

About this Item

Octavos. Very Good Plus condition in a Very Good Plus dust jackets. Bound in red cloth. Spines have silver lettering. Corners and spine ends are sharp. Text block is clean. All volumes signed on the limitation page by Dan Simmons and numbered 299 of 474 copies. Shelved in Case 4. 1416209. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: HYPERION CANTOS SET [Three Volumes: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion] [Signed]
• Publisher: Subterranean Press, Burton, MI
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1596064692
• ISBN 13: 9781596064690
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Limited Edition, #299/474.
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Dupont Circle

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Synopsis

Published by Subterranean Press.

Our edition of Hyperion will be an oversize volume, printed on 80# Finch, with a dust jacket and full-color endsheets by John Picacio.

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First published in 1989, Dan Simmons's Hugo Award-winning Hyperion is one of the undisputed classics of modern science fiction. The opening movement of a hugely ambitious multi-volume epic, it is both a masterpiece of pure storytelling and a visionary meditation on the future development of the human race.

The narrative takes place some seven hundred years from now, at a time when humanity has left Old Earth behind and has begun to colonize the worlds between the stars. At a critical moment, with interstellar war about to begin, seven travelers are summoned to a pilgrimage on a distant planet called Hyperion, where ancient mysteries are taking on a new and sudden urgency. At the heart of these mysteries are the Time Tombs, enigmatic artifacts that appear to be traveling backward in time, and the savage, barbed creature known as the Shrike.

Included among these seven pilgrims are a soldier, a poet, a scholar, a priest, and a private detective. As they make their way toward their destination, they tell each other stories, transforming the novel into a far-future version of The Canterbury Tales. These varied, highly personal tales form the heart of this extraordinary book. Individually, they offer highly developed examples of narrative art. Collectively, they set the stage for the wonders, terrors, and revelations to come. The result is a remarkabe--and durable--accomplishment that remains fresh and exciting more than two decades after its initial appearance. Hyperion, together with its successors, does what only the finest imaginative literature can do: It creates and populates a complex, extravagantly detailed universe more vivid, vital, and consistently enthralling than our own everyday world. Popular fiction just doesn't get better than this.