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(Big Hair Big Guns) Hyperion by Dan Simmons

From James Nicoll@3:633/10 to All on Thu May 21 13:10:27 2026

Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, volume 2) by Dan Simmons

Pilgrims on their way to a mysterious artifact fill the time by
recounting their personal backstories.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/never-the-nets
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From Scott Dorsey@3:633/10 to All on Thu May 21 09:14:19 2026

James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, volume 2) by Dan Simmons

Pilgrims on their way to a mysterious artifact fill the time by
recounting their personal backstories.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/never-the-nets

I really enjoyed this, and I first read it because of a filk song that was written about it. The framing device is a good one but I do not think it
is original to Mr. Simmons.
--scott

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From James Nicoll@3:633/10 to All on Thu May 21 13:18:45 2026

In article <10un083$3n7$1@reader1.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, volume 2) by Dan Simmons

Pilgrims on their way to a mysterious artifact fill the time by
recounting their personal backstories.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/never-the-nets

That should be volume 1.
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From James Nicoll@3:633/10 to All on Thu May 21 13:19:12 2026

In article <10un0fb$dhg$1@panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:

James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, volume 2) by Dan Simmons

Pilgrims on their way to a mysterious artifact fill the time by
recounting their personal backstories.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/never-the-nets

I really enjoyed this, and I first read it because of a filk song that was >written about it. The framing device is a good one but I do not think it
is original to Mr. Simmons.
--scott

It's a homage to Canterbury Tales.
--
My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/
My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/
My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/
My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll

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From Scott Dorsey@3:633/10 to All on Thu May 21 11:15:12 2026

James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

In article <10un0fb$dhg$1@panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:

James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, volume 2) by Dan Simmons

Pilgrims on their way to a mysterious artifact fill the time by >>>recounting their personal backstories.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/never-the-nets

I really enjoyed this, and I first read it because of a filk song that was >>written about it. The framing device is a good one but I do not think it >>is original to Mr. Simmons.

It's a homage to Canterbury Tales.

Indeed. I was being slightly snarky.
But Thousand and One Nights used the device first, if slightly differently. --scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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From William Hyde@3:633/10 to All on Thu May 21 13:49:29 2026

James Nicoll wrote:

Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, volume 2) by Dan Simmons

Pilgrims on their way to a mysterious artifact fill the time by
recounting their personal backstories.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/never-the-nets

I was surprisingly undisturbed by the lack of an ending. I think that
the stories were just the sort of thing I was looking for at the time, a period when I was reading little SF.

Margaret Atwood wrote a very favorable introduction to Wyndham's
"Chocky". I suspect she would confess to liking a lot of SF other than
that of Ursula LeGuin.

William Hyde

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