num_pages: 500
description: On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope—and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.
language: English
title: Hyperion
titlecomplete: Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
characters: The Shrike, Rachel Weintraub, Brawne Lamia, Fedmahn Kassad, Melio Arundez, Het Masteen, Sarai Weintraub, Sol Weintraub, Sad King Billy, Paul Duré, A. Bettik, Meina Gladstone, Tyrena Wingreen-Feif, John Keats, Martin Silenus, Siri, Consul, Lenar Hoyt
genres: Audiobook, Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Time Travel, Classics, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Space Opera
ratings_count: 240276
series: Hyperion Cantos
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Premio Ignotus
category: Novela, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: SF Chronicle Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Tähtivaeltaja Award, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Chesley Award
category: Hardback cover, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Prix Cosmos 2000, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Foreign Novel
publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group