ISBN: 0307781917 9780307781918

Category: Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera

Page count: 576

<b>LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the world of <i>Hyperion</i> in this dazzling third novel of the Hyperion Cantos, introducing new characters who bear the fate of time itself in their hands.</b><br><br><b>“An unfailingly inventive narrative . . . generously conceived and stylistically sure-handed.”—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><b> </b><br>Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in <i>Fall of Hyperion</i>, 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.<br><br><i>Endymion</i> is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror—and the continuation of one of the science fiction’s greatest sagas.