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Hyperion Cantos |
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| Hyperion | |
| 1989 Winner of a Hugo for Best Novel |
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| The Fall of Hyperion | |
| 1990 | |
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Preview: The fate of all mankind hangs in the balance as the Hegemony of Man, allied with the artificial intelligence TechnoCore, prepares for the invasion of the planet Hyperion by Ousters. A group of pilgrims is granted permission to make the Shrike Pilgrimage on Hyperion, home to the mysterious Time Tombs. Each pilgrim hopes to have a wish granted by the Shrike, the Lord of Pain; the alternative is to suffer a living death impaled on a tree of thorns. Plots and counterplots swirl around this group who somehow hold the key to the outcome of the war. |
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| The Pilgrims | |
| Meina Gladstone, former Hegemony consul to Hyperion | |
| Het Masteen, captain of the Templar treeship Yggdrasill and a True Voice of the Tree | |
| Sol Weintraub, a scholar, and his infant daughter Rachel who is going backward in time | |
| Colonel Fedmahn Kassad, called the Butcher of South Bressia | |
| Father Lenar Hoyt, a Catholic priest | |
| Brawne Lamia, a private detective who carries the personality of the cyborg recreated with the memories of the poet John Keats | |
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