Dan Simmons: Hyperion
Hyperion
Buch
- Random House LLC US, 12/1995
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780553283686
- Bestellnummer: 4799193
- Umfang: 481 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr: 1990
- Gewicht: 251 g
- Maße: 175 x 108 mm
- Stärke: 30 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 15.12.1995
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Beschreibung
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope--and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.Klappentext
A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable epic by the multiple-award-winning author of The Hollow Man.On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.
On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope-and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.
Praise for Dan Simmons and Hyperion
"Dan Simmons has brilliantly conceptualized a future 700 years distant. In sheer scope and complexity it matches, and perhaps even surpasses, those of Isaac Asimov and James Blish."-The Washington Post Book World
"An unfailingly inventive narrative . . . generously conceived and stylistically sure-handed."-The New York Times Book Review
"Simmons's own genius transforms space opera into a new kind of poetry."-The Denver Post
"An essential part of any science fiction collection."-Booklist
Biografie
Dan Simmons wurde 1948 in Illinois geboren. Er schrieb bereits als Kind Erzählungen, die er seinen Mitschülern vorlas. Nach einigen Jahren als Englischlehrer machte er sich 1987 als freier Schriftsteller selbstständig. Mit zahlreichen Romanen hat er sich inzwischen sowohl als Horror- wie auch als Science-Fiction-Autor einen Namen gemacht die Hyperion-Saga ist sein bisher ambitioniertestes und bekanntestes Werk. Simmons lebt und arbeitet in Colorado, am Rande der Rocky Mountains.
Dan Simmons
Hyperion
EUR 8,78*
