Du Yue No.014
Titan
Douban score: 9.4
Rating: ★★★★★★★
In the 28th century, the earth has been swallowed up by black holes, and mankind has established a hegemonic regime in the Milky Way, but the legend on a distant planet will bring disaster to mankind. On this planet called Hyperion, it is said that a bloodthirsty monster named Shrike lurks. Pilgrims can team up and make a wish to it. One person's dream will come true, and the rest will lose their lives. On the eve of the end of mankind, the last pilgrimage team consisting of seven people set out. Each of them has something he desperately wants and secrets hidden in his heart, and one of them holds the destiny of all mankind.
This is Hyperion's first story, which is divided into four volumes. It consists of Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Andy Mien and The Awakening of Andy Mien. I think people may find it hard to understand when they see Hyperion and Andy Mien, and we can't help but mention a person-john keats-as the origin of these two names. An English legendary poet who lived at the beginning of19th century left many excellent poems in his short 26 years. This series is named after two of his works, Hyperion and Andy Meene. The Hyperion written by Keats tells that the old generation of Titan was overthrown and expelled by their descendant Olympus, and the only old gods who still held power was the sun god Hyperion. Before the poem is finished, Simmons probably likes Keats' poems too much, and likes to write this great chapter for him with more than 2 million words, and cast an eternal obelisk for him in the history of literature.
In this book, you can see topics that you can see in ordinary science fiction, such as space opera, time travel, Cyberpunk, military science fiction, biological viruses, singularities, artificial intelligence, etc., and you can also see the unheard-of settings such as eternal Bikula, shrike from the opposite era, time burial and inverse entropy field. The moment you close the book, there are hundreds of suspense that make you want to break your head. Even among sci-fi fans, there are three widely circulated mysteries: the origin of shrike, the truth of maze world and the name of consul.
This book not only has many themes and settings, but also has a strong sense of epic. The description of the scene is magnificent, such as the flaming forest roared by lightning and storms, the whale center, the capital of Fiji and food, which is composed of the most prosperous areas of thousands of planets, and the religious holy places surrounded by towering trees that can be seen in endless orbits, as well as the Tianshan World surrounded by thousands of meters of mountains and Yunweiqi cliffs.
The author of this book is Dan? Simmons is an outstanding contemporary American novelist who has created fantasy, science fiction, horror, reasoning, thriller, history and mainstream literature. As long as he works hard, he will win back countless awards. The appearance of Hyperion swept all the important sci-fi awards in the world: Hugo Award, Trajectory Award, Japanese Xingyun Award, French Cosmos Award, Spanish first prize of science fiction, and Britain. It is conceivable that "Hyperion" is unshakable in the hearts of sci-fi fans.
Well, abortion Amway has learned so much. I hope our friends can embark on an unforgettable journey in this eternal story. See you next time.