![]() Take, for instance, the internet as he imagined it in the late 80s, when he wrote Hyperion. That’s mostly not an issue for Simmons, even though some of his fundamentals sound a bit clumsy at first. ![]() ![]() This trick doesn’t always work, because not all writers are good at coming up with spacewords. Simmons does that usual trick of establishing science fiction by tickling your brain with made-up spacewords, often juxtaposed with real words. Maybe it helps if you’ve been reading someone who isn’t. The first thing that’s clear in Hyperion, which I don’t remember being a takeaway from The Terror, is that Simmons is an adroit writer. You’d never guess it was written by the same person who wrote Hyperion, a sparkling collection of multi-faceted science fiction, with carefully built characters, a lovingly detailed world, and a glaring problem that threatens to undermine it all.īut we’ll get to that later. ![]() ![]() It’s overlong, tedious, confused, and ultimately flat. Hyperion is not what you would expect if the only Dan Simmons you’ve read is The Terror, a slab of historical fiction with an uneven supernatural glaze. ![]()
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