Endymion

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'Dan Simmons has soared to the top of my list of must-reads. He's a shooting star. A comet. Frighteningly brilliant. Brilliantly frightening5 Dávid Morrell 'The likes of Stephen King and Greg Benford face challenges in the work of one author. Dan Simmons is an author to watch - and buy and enjoy' Bookshelf ENDYMION Anything can happen. The future is never written...only pencilled in. The year is 3126 and, on the world of Hyperion, twenty-seven-year-old Raul Endymion is executed. Because he has not converted and accepted the resurrecting symbol of the cruciform, this means final death for him. So when Rául wakes up - alive - in the abandoned university of Endymion, halfa continent away, he finds that he has been chosen to undertake a world-changing quest to make history. For Martin Silenus, old poet and author of the notorious Cantos, has picked Raul to accompany his niece into the future, and to protect her there until her destiny to become the One Who Teaches is fulfilled. The... Tovább

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'Dan Simmons has soared to the top of my list of must-reads. He's a shooting star. A comet. Frighteningly brilliant. Brilliantly frightening5 Dávid Morrell 'The likes of Stephen King and Greg Benford face challenges in the work of one author. Dan Simmons is an author to watch - and buy and enjoy' Bookshelf ENDYMION Anything can happen. The future is never written...only pencilled in. The year is 3126 and, on the world of Hyperion, twenty-seven-year-old Raul Endymion is executed. Because he has not converted and accepted the resurrecting symbol of the cruciform, this means final death for him. So when Rául wakes up - alive - in the abandoned university of Endymion, halfa continent away, he finds that he has been chosen to undertake a world-changing quest to make history. For Martin Silenus, old poet and author of the notorious Cantos, has picked Raul to accompany his niece into the future, and to protect her there until her destiny to become the One Who Teaches is fulfilled. The daughter of Brawne Lamia and the cybrid John Keats, eleven-year-old Aenea stepped inta the Sphinx 263 years ago and when she emerges in only forty-two hours' time, it won't just be Raul who's waiting for her... Alsó by multi-award-winning author Dan Simmons from Headline Feature: HYPERION and THE FALL OF HYPERION'Something very close to triumph' Locus 'Dan Simmons has brilliantly conceptualised a future 700 years distant, in sheer scope and complexity it matches and perhaps even surpasses those [works] of Isaac Asimov and James Blish' Washington Post 'State of the art science fiction...this work will be that against which all future works will have to be measured...it's a landmark növel' Isaac Asimovfs Science Fiction Magaziné SONG OF KALI, CARRION COMFORT, PHASES OF GRAVITY, PRAYERS TO BROKEN STONES, SUMMER OF NIGHT, CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT, THE HOLLOW MAN, LOVEDEATH and FIRES OF EDEN. Cover photograph © Tony Stone Images Vissza