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scavenger4580 's review for:
Hyperion
by Dan Simmons
Just reread this and it holds up. It's the Canterbury Tales in Space! What I like about it how Chaucer's original text is more than a cheap overlay to seem sophisticated. The choice to have each pilgrim tell their story in very different styles really creates a caleidoscopic view of this reality. Even if the novel is severely in debt to other, preceding scifi such as Neuromancer (clearly acknowledged) and The Sparrow (not acknowledged), this first part of the Hyperion Cantos holds up. I don't think the Keats thing works well, though, and it works less and less as the novels move along. But this first iteration I think deservedly won the Hugo. I rarely finish books in less than a week, especially sizeable ones like this one, but this was a breeze.