I went into Hyperion blind, decades ago, knowing almost nothing about it. I was never the same.
  • wolfrasin@lemmy.today
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    8 months ago

    Barf. On my 2nd reading of Hyperion books as an adult this time and I really didn’t pick up on the pedophehelia and grooming shit with Raul & Aenea the first time. Super gross and ruines it for me

  • Lighttrails@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    I finished the Fall of Hyperion last week. He was a fantastic writer. May he be remembered and honored the same way as Colonel Kassad

    • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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      8 months ago

      Drood was so … long to read (I mean weird pacing) and I couldn’t decide if it was intentional or not.

      Also not giving us more of the tusk lady etc was criminal (but I knew that fairly from the start that I’m getting snubbed in my ghostly lore needs).

      • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Drood isn’t for everyone, but I enjoyed the craziness.

        ‘Black Hills’ is also pretty good. Native man gets a job working on the Mount Rushmore project. It’s a desecration but he needs the work.

        • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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          8 months ago

          Oh, I kinda enjoyed Drood (like a snack I’m already fed up with yet keep munching), but in comparison some passages felt fatiguing, style a bit different, topics a bit mondaine (again, might have been intentional to show opium changes, idk).

          Didn’t read Black Hills, almost don’t want to, but prob will at some point (thx for reminding me).

  • KneeTitts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I always hoped to see a Hyperion movie, now without his guidance it’ll come out and suck.

    • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      8 months ago

      SyFy (not its predecessor) had rights to it, but it never came to light. The Shrike is so hard to depict. Perhaps HBO or another with deep coffers could make it happen.

      • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        8 months ago

        IMO the Shrike is kind of unimportant to most of the storytelling. You could almost just narrate it and show shadows of a distant figure. It’s the stalking threat that gives mystery and weight to the decisions of the characters to make the pilgrimage.

        I always found the physical description of the Shrike to be one of the silliest aspects of the story.

  • Jhex@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Hyperion is awesome… read all 4 and “told” them to my kids who loved them so much they read them as well (my “kids” are big, but I don’t know what else to call them hahaha)

    Rest in peace Simmons… may you Freecast in joy for all eternity

  • falidorn@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    What a crazy coincidence that my newly formed book club chose this as our inaugural choice and then, literally just yesterday, finished Fall of Hyperion.

    I appreciate you Dan Simmons. I’m sorry people no longer get to experience your imagination.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      I’m actually reading the first book right now… So I first saw the image which is the cover of the book I’m reading and thought “heyyyy!” then read the headline… oof.

  • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Love that the author of the article jabbed Rothfus and Martin directly.

    Hyperion is my favorite sci-fi next to Dune. It’s inspired a lot of the features in my D&D homebrew world, including the Shrike, the river, a few deities, and other textures and layers to my realm.

    Farewell, friend. You were one of the good ones. I wish you hadn’t gone the wrong direction.

  • Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
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    8 months ago

    I loved especially Hyperion, but I said my final goodbye the day I opened Flashback… what an awful piece of rear end production that was.

    The Hyperion series was awesome, original, well-thought out, spiced with a background of Enoch the Prophet, flying space trees … and I’ll cherish it forever.

    Flashback not so much, what a hateful piece of right wing trash that was. And I’m not necessarily against a solid story that makes me think or even just learn to appreciate other’s viewpoints, but this was more like something Ben Shapiro would write. “leftie bad hur durr”, you probably know what I mean. On top of that, it was shattered, incoherent and relied insanely on Deus Ex Machina constructions throughout.

    I never understood and I never ever will I. Sad.

    • Sergio@piefed.socialEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I never understood and I never ever will I.

      Oh, I understand it. Simmons was too eager to tell us why he didn’t like “certain people.”