ENDYMION (Hyperion Cantos#3)

Endymion (Hyperion Cantos#3) - Dan Simmons - 9780553572940

The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the universethat is his greatest triumph with a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors.

Dan Simmons's "Hyperion" was an immediate sensation on its firstpublication in 1989. Hyperion went on to win the Hugo Award as Best Novel, andit and its companion volume, "The Fall of Hyperion," took their rightfulplaces in the science fiction pantheon of new classics.

Now, six years later, Simmons returns to this richly imagined world oftechnological achievement, excitement, wonder and fear. "Endymion" is astory about love and memory, triumph and terror--an instant candidate for thefield's highest honors.

Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning.

With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raoul and Aenea travel the river Tethys, pursued by Father Captain Frederico DeSoya, an influential warrior-priest, and his troops. And the shrike's enigmatic appearances continue.

Endymion is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror--and the continuation of one of the science fiction's greatest sagas.