Praise for Dan Simmons and the Hyperion novels
HYPERION
“EXTRAORDINARY.” —Asimov’s Science
Fiction
“SIMMONS MASTERFULLY EMPLOYS SF’S POTENTIAL.” —Locus
“A MAGNIFICENTLY ORIGINAL BLEND OF THEMES AND STYLES.” —The
Denver Post
THE FALL OF HYPERION
“GENEROUSLY CONCEIVED AND STYLISTICALLY
SURE-HANDED.… AN UNFAILINGLY INVENTIVE NARRATIVE THAT BEARS
COMPARISON WITH SUCH CLASSICS AS ISAAC ASIMOV’S FOUNDATION
SERIES, FRANK HERBERT’S DUNE, AND GENE WOLFE’S BOOK OF
THE NEW SUN.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“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
ENDYMION
[A] MASTERY OF FAR-FUTURE SCIENCE FICTION.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“A MAJOR WORK … SIMMONS DOESN’T JUST PROMISE; HE
DELIVERS.”
—Science Fiction Chronicle
“BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF 1995.”
—Rocky Mountain News
THE RISE OF ENDYMION
“SIMMONS’S SCOPE IS TRULY STAGGERING, HIS
INVENTIVENESS CONTINUES TO IMPRESS, AND THE NARRATIVE OFFERS
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“BRILLIANTLY REALIZED.” —Booklist