num_pages: 632
description: On the world called Hyperion the mysterious Time Tombs are opening and seven pilgrims risk their lives to petition the entity called the Shrike - a creature that may well control the fate of all mankind.The Hegemony of Man - a thousand thousand worlds linked by a network of farcaster portals and high-tech gateways - is under siege by Ousters, strange, half-human tribes mutated almost beyond recognition.The AIs - Artificial Intelligences whose synthetic wisdom created and maintains the nets that bind the Hegemony - have become a threat; it seems they have turned against the Hegemony and all mankind. And there is evidence that they have begun a project to create the Ultimate Intelligence - to build, in short, God. God of Machines: the ultimate deus ex machina. His genesis may well mean man's annihilation.Something is drawing the Hegemony, the AIs, the Ousters, and indeed the entire universe, towards the Shrike and the Time Tombs from which it has arisen. In a moment the paths of man, machine and god will intersect. Nothing will ever be the same.
language: English
title: The Fall of Hyperion
titlecomplete: The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
characters: The Shrike, Rachel Weintraub, Brawne Lamia, Fedmahn Kassad, Melio Arundez, John Keats, Sol Weintraub, Meina Gladstone, Tyrena Wingreen-Feif, Martin Silenus, Consul
genres: Audiobook, Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Time Travel, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Space, Space Opera
ratings_count: 120780
series: Hyperion Cantos
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: SF Chronicle Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Foreign Novel
publisher: Headline Book Pub Ltd