I know there are many of these posts, but I just finished the Dan Simmons sci-fi series, Hyperion and felt the need to write this. Wow. Utterly stunned is my best description of how I feel. In awe, really, that someone could craft such a thoughtful, thought-provoking, and magnificent tale. Over 30 years ago no less!
The characters, the scope, the detail, the emotion, the ideas, OH! the ideas! How does someone come up with so many futuristic ideas, realities, visions, prophecies?
Dan Simmons, if you are out there, I'd love to interview you. I'm overwhelmed with the genius you possess, but it struck me, at the end of Rise of Endymion, that you're describing the place where you tapped into to create this beauty - The Void Which Binds. Bravo.
Thank you for writing this series. My worldview is forever changed.
The first book is amazing, one of the best scifi novels ever. The second book is ok, but is underwhelming.
Books 3 and 4 are not only awful, they revolve around the author's self insert mary sue character starting to "fall in love" with his adoptive daughter character who he raised from childhood, who at the time is 13(?!).
That 4th book is truly heinous pedophilic apologia, a groomer fantasy.