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| Author | Dan Simmons |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Hyperion Cantos |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Headline Book Publishing |
| Publication date | February 1996 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 441 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-7472-0525-6 (first edition, hardback) |
| Preceded by | The Fall of Hyperion |
| Followed by | The Rise of Endymion |
Endymion is the third science fiction novel by Dan Simmons in his Hyperion Cantos fictional universe. Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois) is an American Author most widely known for his Hugo Award The United States of America —commonly referred to as the English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons. Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) is a Book bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with Cloth Paperback, softback, or softcover describe and refer to a Book by the nature of its binding. The novel should not be confused with John Keats's epic poem fragment The Fall of Hyperion A Dream. The Rise of Endymion is a 1997 Science fiction Novel by Dan Simmons. Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois) is an American Author most widely known for his Hugo Award The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons. A fictional universe is a self-consistent fictional setting with unique background elements such as an imaginary history or geography and possibly fantasy or science Centered around the new characters Aenea and Endymion, it has been as well received as Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion - within a year of its release, the paperback edition had gone through five reprints [1]. For the novel 'Hyperion' written by Friedrich Hölderlin see Hyperion (Hölderlin Hyperion is a Hugo Award The novel should not be confused with John Keats's epic poem fragment The Fall of Hyperion A Dream. The novel was nominated for the 1996 British Fantasy Award [2]. The British Fantasy Awards are administered annually by the British Fantasy Society and were first awarded in 1971
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Plot summary
Background
The story opens 274 years after the Fall of Hyperion. The novel should not be confused with John Keats's epic poem fragment The Fall of Hyperion A Dream. Meina Gladstone, the Hegemony CEO, knew that the real menace for mankind were not the Ousters, but the TechnoCore. The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons. The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons. A chief executive officer ( CEO) or chief executive is typically the highest-ranking corporate officer ( executive) or administrator In Dan Simmons' Hyperion universe the branch of humanity that left the Worldweb and the Hegemony and chose instead to travel among the stars adapting away from planetary life and the The TechnoCore is the 'race' of post- singularity Artificial Intelligences in Dan Simmons ' Hyperion universe She also knew that the TechnoCore was hidden in the singularities between the farcasters. In the Hyperion universe a farcaster is an instantaneous transportation device. Gladstone ordered the destruction of all the farcasters, and tried to detonate a "deathwand device" within the fabric of the farcaster network in hopes of destroying the Core. In so doing, she destroyed the WorldWeb and all of the previous interstellar institutions of humankind.
Brawne Lamia, Martin Silenus and the Consul were the only surviving Pilgrims that stayed at Hyperion at that moment. The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons. The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons. The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons. The Consul left shortly and joined the Ousters and learned from them. It is uncertain what was his fate. Brawne Lamia, pregnant from the first John Keats technological reincarnation, gave birth shortly after to a daughter called Aenea. The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons. Lamia died when Aenea was still a girl, and Silenus took care of the child. When Aenea was twelve years old, she entered the "Time Tomb" and disappeared. The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons.
Father Paul Duré was the only pilgrim not in Hyperion. The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons. Before the fall, he had farcasted to Pacem, the dying Catholic Church's planet, and had been elected as the new Pope, under the name of Teilhard (a reference to Teilhard de Chardin). The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons. History See also History of the Papacy Catholics recognize the Pope as a successor to Saint Peter, who Jesus named as the "shepherd" and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (pjɛʀ tejaʀ də ʃaʀdɛ̃ 1 May 1881, Orcines, France – 10 His papacy was determinant to rejuvenate the Church. When he died unexpectedly, he was reincarnated as Lenar Hoyt, due to the remaining unremoved cruciform that he had in his body. The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons. The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons.
With Lenar Hoyt as the new Pope, with the help of Cardinal Lourdusamy, the Church took a new direction. The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons. Two new Sacraments were introduced, the Acceptance of the Cruciform and the Resurrection. This article concerns itself with Jesus Christ Christian, Islamic and other religious interpretations of resurrection in general The Church had developed a new technology that improved the results of the Resurrection, so the believers who had accepted the cruciform were virtually immortal. Assisted by the immortality, the Church grew steadily, and under the name of Pax, filled the void left by the Hegemony after the Fall, as the government of all the galaxy's mankind. The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons. When Hoyt died, he was resurrected again and again, and Father Duré never again appeared to the public eye. Under the various Hoyt's papacies, Father Duré was considered as an Antipope that nearly killed the Church. An antipope ( Latin: antipapa) is a person who makes a widely accepted claim to be the lawful Pope, in opposition to the pope recognised by the Roman
Aenea's rescue
274 years after the Fall, Raul Endymion is a hunting guide in Hyperion who kills a hunter in a dispute. The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons. Even though the feud was the hunter's fault and the hunter himself resurrects because of his cruciform, Endymion is sentenced to death. He refuses the cruciform and is executed. Rather than dying, he awakens, to his surprise, in the house of an old man named Martin Silenus. The old man tells him that he has been saved, because he wants him to go on a mission: to rescue his "niece" Aenea who is about to return at the Time Tomb, to find the old Earth (because he was, indeed, born on Earth), and destroy the TechnoCore and Pax. EARTH was a short-lived Japanese vocal trio which released 6 singles and 1 album between 2000 and 2001 Endymion, even though he thinks that is a crazy idea, accepts the mission. He will be helped by Silenus' servant, android A. Bettik and by the old Consul's starship. A starship is a theoretical Spacecraft designed for traveling between the stars, as opposed to a vehicle designed for Orbital spaceflight or Interplanetary
Meanwhile, the Pax also knows that Aenea is about to arrive. They consider her an abomination and want her captured. The mission is assigned to Father-Captain Federico de Soya, who prepares an army of elite troops on Hyperion's surface and in surrounding space to trap Aenea. The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons.
Endymion and Silenus's plan consists of arriving at the Time Tombs, flying on the Consul's flying carpet. In Dan Simmons' Hyperion universe the Hawking Mat is a technological flying carpet that levitates and propels itself via interaction with a planet's electromagnetic field When the Tomb opens, Aenea appears as predicted. However, she is not alone. The Shrike appears and begins a massacre of the Swiss Guard and conventional Pax military units - on Hyperion and in local space - deployed to detain her. This article refers to a fictional creature for other uses see Shrike (disambiguation. In the confusion, Endymion meets Aenea and takes her to the starship, where Bettik is waiting. The Pax, fighting with the Shrike, cannot stop the ship before it translates to hyperspace.
Travelling through Hyperspace
The ship's first destination from Hyperion is Parvati, a six and a half days travel and a time debt of three months. The trip starts the friendship between Aenea and Endymion. He realizes that his young friend is far more precocious than a twelve year old should be, and he feels a hint of the mystique that she will have in the future.
Meanwhile, Father de Soya, badly injured by the Shrike, is determined to not let Aenea escape again. He takes possession of an Archangel Torchship, the Raphael, that allows him and three of his elite soldiers, (Sargent Gregorius, Corporal Kee and Lancer Rettig, from the Swiss Guard) to fly to Parvati faster than hyperspace. The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons. The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons. The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons. Swiss Guards Swiss mercenary is the name given to those soldiers who have served as Bodyguards, ceremonial guards and palace guards at foreign European courts since The price of this speed is a painful death and resurrection of the ship's passengers.
When Aenea and Endymion arrive to Parvati space, de Soya is waiting to stop them. Aenea threatens to blow the old Consul's ship and die. Since de Soya's orders are to catch her alive, he has to let her go.
The next destination is Renaissance Vector. De Soya's team, after dying and resurrecting again, are ready to stop her even if she tries to blow the ship. Aenea manages anyway to take the ship to the planet's atmosphere, and before de Soya can react, she sends the ship through one of the Web's farcasters, located at old River Tethys, which were supposed to be inactive since the Fall. De Soya reacts at the last moment, and shoots Aenea's ship, but too late to prevent it from farcasting.
Traveling through the River Tethys
The ship has arrived to an unknown sylvatic planet through the farcaster. Sylvatic is a Scientific term referring to diseases or pathogens affecting only wild (sylvan means forest-dwelling) animals The passengers are all unharmed, but the ship is badly damaged. Its AI states that it can be auto-repaired, but it will take about five standard months. Since Aenea cannot wait, Raul constructs a raft to follow the River Tethys. Raul, Aenea and Bettik depart and leave the Ship on the unknown planet.
De Soya, unable to determine to which of the hundreds of planets crossed by River Tethys Aenea has fled, begins an odyssey of continuous deaths and resurrections through all known planet systems in order to find her.
The raft arrives at the next inactive farcaster, but again, it works and translate to another planet, Mare Infinitus. As they travel across the aquatic planet, looking for next farcaster, they encounter a sea platform occupied by Pax guards. Since they cannot avoid it, Raul boards the flying carpet and goes alone to the platform, taking some explosives in order to create a distraction. An explosive material is a material that either is chemically or otherwise Energetically unstable or produces a sudden expansion of the material usually accompanied He succeeds, but only after fighting with Pax soldiers, losing the carpet, falling into the water, fighting some sharks, and eventually being rescued by Aenea and Bettik. Sharks ( Superorder Selachimorpha) are a type of Fish with a full cartilaginous Skeleton and a highly streamlined body
They find the next farcaster and translate to Hebron. Hebron ( al-Ḫalīl or al-Khalīl, Standard Hebrew: Ḥevron Tiberian Hebrew: Ḥeḇrôn is the largest city in the West Bank, located in the south Strangely, they find the planet absolutely uninhabited. Aenea and Bettik find a hospital with automated medical kits, which cure Endymion, who is still injured from the Mare Infinitus adventure.
Meanwhile, De Soya's search brings him to Mare Infinitus, where he finds evidence that Aenea and Endymion have been there, namely the flying carpet. De Soya concludes that Aenea's final destination might be Ouster territory. Hoping to intercept her, De Soya and his men translate there, but there is an accident: resurrection fails, and consequently their ship is automatically rerouted to Pacem.
De Soya is resurrected there, but one of his men, Rettig has died the "True Death". The Pax government, in spite of De Soya's consistent failures to capture Aenea, decide to keep de Soya on the mission, and assign a new officer to his guard, Rhadamanth Nemes, a member of a "new race of soldiers, prepared to fight the ousters". The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons.
At Sol Draconi Septem
Aenea, Raul and Bettik continue to travel through the farcasters. Their next destination is Sol Draconi Septem, a barely terraformed, frozen, high gravity planet. Gravitation is a natural Phenomenon by which objects with Mass attract one another There, they meet and befriend the Chitchatuk, a human race, that are adapted to Sol Draconi Septem's terrible conditions. The Chitchatuk take Aenea and her companions to meet Father Glaucus a blind catholic priest, estranged from Pax, who lives in a subterranean skyscraper. The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons. A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable Building. There is no official definition or a precise cutoff height above which a building may clearly be classified as a skyscraper At Glaucus' home, Aenea, Bettik and Raul rest and enjoy the priest's friendship.
They depart again and farcast to Qom Riyadh, which they find also strangely uninhabited, and then to God's Grove.
Meanwhile, de Soya has received information that it has been "revealed" to the Pope that Aenea is in Sol Draconi Septem. De Soya and his guards fly there in his Archangel Torchship, but something is wrong: Nemes is not dead. In fact, she wakes up when the rest of crew has yet to resurrect, and takes a dropship to the planet. She has inhuman strength and skills and is ruthless. She kills the Chitchatuk and Father Glaucus. But in exploring the farcaster she learns that Aenea has gone to Qom Riyadh and God's Grove. When de Soya resurrects, she informs him of the new information, but de Soya is suspicious. They farcast to God's Grove, where Nemes plans to catch and kill Aenea, but before dying, de Soya gives the ship instructions to resurrect him one day earlier than expected or advisable.
Encounter at God's Grove
Nemes prepares a trap for Aenea and friends, including cutting "monofilaments", land mines and a trap designed to beat the Shrike, if it shows. A land mine is an Explosive device designed to be placed on or in the ground to explode when triggered by an operator or the Proximity of a vehicle person
When the raft transporting the heroes arrives, they fall into the trap. A. Bettik has one arm cut off by the monofilaments. The Shrike appears and fights Nemes. Her inhuman skills are a tough match for the Shrike, which finally falls into Nemes' trap. The Shrike is transported 5 minutes into the future, more than enough for Nemes to kill Aenea. When Raul is the only obstacle for Nemes, Father de Soya, barely resurrected and piloting the Raphael, shoots Nemes from outer space. Nemes disappears in a lake of molten rock.
De Soya meets Aenea, and helps her and her friends, especially A. Bettik with his wounded arm. Blessing her, de Soya provides a shuttle for Aenea and lets her go. The heroes pass through a farcaster to reach their end destination: Old Earth. But Earth, which is supposed to be destroyed, is no longer in the Milky Way, but in the Magellanic Cloud. The Milky Way (a translation of the Latin Via Lactea, in turn derived from the Greek Γαλαξίας (Galaxias sometimes referred to simply History The Magellanic Clouds were certainly known since the earliest times by the ancient Middle Eastern peoples
Aenea guides the ship to Fallingwater, Pennsylvania, where she will study with an architect (the Frank Lloyd Wright cybrid) until she is ready to fulfill her mission. Fallingwater, also known as the Edgar J Kaufmann Sr Residence, is a House designed by American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern The Hyperion Cantos form a Tetralogy of Science fiction Novels by Dan Simmons.
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