Songs of Hyperion

The second book in Dan Simmons’s “Songs of Hyperion” tetralogy – “The Fall of Hyperion” – takes the reader even deeper into the world of the future. Along with the Hegemony and the Exiles, who are supposedly enemies, there is a third force here – TechnoCord. This is a separate state of the ShInts, who broke away from humanity, not wanting to be its servants.

Pilgrims who set out for the legendary Shrike appear before us again, but this time we see them from a slightly different angle – in the dreams of the cybrid John Keats, a real-life 19th-century poet, the creator of a poem about how some gods replace others.

“The Fall of Hyperion” is a large-scale novel about the search for the Supreme Mind, about the change of civilizations, about the fact that someone has to retreat so that something new can come into the world…?