The Rise of Endymion
The intertwined stories of Raul Endymion and Aenea will once again engross us
We revisit the convoluted future that was born out of the chaos following the demise of the human Hegemony, a future dominated by the Catholic Church and the artificial intelligences of the Techno-Head. Once again we are engrossed in the intertwined stories of Raul Endymion and Aenea, a young woman born from the union of a human mother - Browne Lamia - and the reincarnation of John Keats in the body of a cybrid. Aenea is something new in the universe, a point where different forms of existence meet. She was charged with the extremely difficult task of redirecting the evolution of the human species.
They wrote about the book:
The final volume of the saga is the closest of the four "Hyperion" books to classic adventure science fiction. The previous book had already deviated in this direction compared to the original dilogy, but it still relied heavily on the author's highly meta-narrative style of storytelling. But this retreat to a more "ordinary" genre is not a bad thing in the least. Literary chameleon Simmons fits almost any position and squeezes the absolute maximum out of each one.
- fantasya.cz
Dan Simmons
American science fiction and horror writer. A writer of many faces who, thanks to his refined style and rich imagination, has managed to secure the loyalty of many readers who literally hunger for each of his new books. He was born on April 4, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois. In 1970 he completed his Bachelor's degree in English and a year later his Master's degree in Education. Today he lives with his wife Karen and daughter Jane in Longmont, colourado. He has already gained considerable attention with his debut novel The Song of Kali (1985, Czech 1998), but the real breakthrough in his literary career came four years later with the comprehensive horror novel The Hunger Games (1989, Czech 2010) and above all thanks to the visionary science-fiction Hyperion (1989, Czech Argo 2017), which he directly followed with the novel The Fall of Hyperion (1990, Czech Argo 2018). In the following years he was successful in the field of science fiction (e.g. novels Endymion and Ílion), horror (Black Summer) and detective fiction (the Joe Kurtz trilogy). In recent years, he has delighted readers mainly with his historical story with a touch of horror Terror (2007, Czech 2007), which has recently been adapted into a TV series, or his Sherlockian quest in the novel The Fifth Heart (2015, Czech 2016).
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