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The ''Hyperion Cantos'' is a series of four science fiction novels written by DanSimmons. They are:
# ''Hyperion''
# ''The Fall of Hyperion''
# ''Endymion''
# ''The Rise of Endymion''
# ''Hyperion''
# ''The Fall of Hyperion''
# ''Endymion''
# ''The Rise of Endymion''
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The ''Hyperion Cantos'' is a series of four science fiction novels written by DanSimmons. They are:
# ''Hyperion''
#In order, they are: ''Hyperion'', ''The Fall of Hyperion''
# ''Endymion''
#Hyperion'', ''Endymion'', and ''The Rise of Endymion''
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# ''Endymion''
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It's eight hundred years into the future, and humanity has fled Earth's accidental destruction at the hands of an [[FreakLabAccident artificial black hole]] and established the [=WorldWeb=], a society of many planets connected through the [[PortalNetwork farcaster network]]. With the help of its allies in the [=TechnoCore=] (a group of emancipated AIs), mankind lives in peace... until the mysterious "Ousters", a splinter race of humanity adapted to living in deep space, attacks the [=WorldWeb=]. As the situation becomes desperate, a group of seven pilgrims is sent to the planet Hyperion, a colony world guarded by the inscrutable killing machine known as the Shrike. Their hope is that their desperate appeal to the Shrike will persuade it to give them some of its alien technology that can save humanity. During the journey, the pilgrims, each of whom [[MysteriousPast has a personal link]] to Hyperion, begin to tell each other their stories, and realize that things are ''much'' more complicated than they thought...
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* PlanetOfHats: Let's see... there's planet of the Jews [[spoiler: which suffers implied genocide]], planet of the Muslims (a backward, desert world [[spoiler:also genocide]]), planet of the tree-worshipping Asians [[spoiler:which gets nuked]], planet of the Palestinians(!) (which is - of course - in a permanent state of rebellion), planet of the slums, planet of the bureaucrats, planet of the Catholics...
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* PlanetOfHats: Let's see... there's planet of the Jews [[spoiler: which suffers implied genocide]], planet of the Muslims (a backward, desert world [[spoiler:also genocide]]), planet of the tree-worshipping Asians [[spoiler:which gets nuked]], planet of the Palestinians(!) (which is - of course - a hellhole in a permanent state of rebellion), planet of the slums, planet of the bureaucrats, planet of the Catholics...Catholics... To be fair, at least some of these are [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as being self-selected: Mars--yes, [[TheRedPlanet Mars]]--as home to the Palestinians is explicitly mentioned as their second stage of refugeedom, while many other planets were expressly established with some religious or ideological agenda--e.g. Maui-Covenant (environmentalist Hawaiians playing nice with dolphins), Hebron (a ReplacementGoldfish for Israel), [=MadredeDios=] (Latin American Catholic pioneers), Asquith (Brits, to the point of keeping TheHouseOfWindsor on the throne), Madhya (a Hindu haven)...
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* YouCantFightFate: Debatable; [[spoiler:Het and Kassad are both destined to die, Rachel is destined to become Moneta, the Shrike is created in the future, ect ect. However, the existence of alternate futures seems to open the possibility that fate isn't set in stone.]]
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* YouCantFightFate: Debatable; [[spoiler:Het and Kassad are both destined to die, Rachel is destined to become Moneta, the Shrike is created in the future, ect ect. However, the existence of alternate futures seems to open the possibility that fate isn't set in stone.]]UndergroundCity: Lusus.
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* ImmortalLifeIsCheap: Many an immortal in the second two books is vaporized, devoured, or melted into the ship's hull, resulting in the "true death". Archangel-class ships are designed with the crew's gruesome and repeated deaths in mind. Considering the excruciating details of the original Archangel's introduction, this doubles as NightmareFuel.
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* ImmortalLifeIsCheap: Many an immortal in the second two books is vaporized, devoured, or melted into the ship's hull, resulting in the "true death". Archangel-class ships are designed with the crew's gruesome and repeated deaths in mind. Considering the excruciating details of the original Archangel's introduction, this doubles as NightmareFuel.horrific.
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* NightmareFuel: The Shrike's Tree of Thorns, with its thousands of impaled humans being kept alive and conscious indefinitely. [[spoiler:The fact that it's just a massive simulation and the victims are being kept under and alive via IV drip somehow makes it ''worse''.]]
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* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: Done in-universe: the poet Martin Silenus, finally realizing that his profitable ''The Dying Earth'' series of books[[note]] yes, the title is a tribute to Creator/JackVance. Now have a cookie[[/note]] has become a brain-dead ClicheStorm, decides to just kill the thing off, completely and utterly, so that he can go and search for his "muse", so he can work on ''real'' poetry.
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* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: Done in-universe: the poet Martin Silenus, finally realizing that his profitable ''The Dying Earth'' series of books[[note]] yes, the title is a tribute to Creator/JackVance. Now have a cookie[[/note]] has become a brain-dead ClicheStorm, decides to just kill the thing off, completely and utterly, so that he can go and search for his "muse", so he can "muse" and work on ''real'' poetry.
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* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: Done in-universe: the poet Martin Silenus, finally realizing that his profitable ''The Dying Earth'' series of books[[note]] yes, the title is a tribute to Creator/JackVance. Now have a cookie[[/note]] has become a brain-dead ClicheStorm, decides to just kill the thing off, completely and utterly, so that he can go and search for his "muse", so he can work on ''real'' poetry.
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* AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit: [[spoiler: The Lions and Tigers and Bears are at ''least'' a Solid Type III, quite possibly higher.]]
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* {{Jerkass}}: Silenus is definitely seen as one throughout much of the first two books, with some of his fellow pilgrams assaulting and threatening to kill him due to his behavior.
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* SpaceIsNoisy: Colonel Fedmahn Kassad spends an extended scene fighting Ousters in the vacuum of a derelict ship using a sonic gun. May simply be a case of DidNotDoResearch if the author really didn't know what sonic meant.
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* SpaceIsNoisy: Colonel Fedmahn Kassad spends an extended scene fighting Ousters in the vacuum of a derelict ship using a sonic gun. May simply be a case of DidNotDoResearch if the author really didn't know what sonic meant.
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* Chekhov's Gun: Both played straight and subverted. [[spoiler:Early on in Endymion, it is established that resurrection (which "normally" takes three days) can be rushed to completion in six hours, at the risk of some major BodyHorror. On the other hand, a literal "Chekhov's gun" - huge plasma rifle, which the narrator mentions and plays up for quite some time - is never used for any significant effect.]]
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* Chekhov's Gun: ChekhovsGun: Both played straight and subverted. [[spoiler:Early on in Endymion, it is established that resurrection (which "normally" takes three days) can be rushed to completion in six hours, at the risk of some major BodyHorror. On the other hand, a literal "Chekhov's gun" - huge plasma rifle, which the narrator mentions and plays up for quite some time - is never used for any significant effect.]]
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* PlanetofHats: Let's see... there's planet of the Jews [[spoiler: which suffers implied genocide]], planet of the Muslims (a backward, desert world [[spoiler:also genocide]]), planet of the tree-worshipping Asians [[spoiler:which gets nuked]], planet of the Palestinians(!) (which is - of course - in a permanent state of rebellion), planet of the slums, planet of the bureaucrats, planet of the Catholics...
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* {{Homage}}: The first book is written in the style of ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'' and the series is inspired by the work of Creator/JohnKeats. In addition, several of the individual tales are homages to other SF works or genres. "The Priest's Tale" bears a a striking resemblance to James Blish's ''A Case of Conscience'', "The Detective's Tale" is cyberpunk (complete with a Creator/WilliamGibson NameDrop) and "The Soldier's Tale" uses a lot of elements from Creator/JoeHaldeman's ''Literature/TheForeverWar''. The ''Consul's Tale'' is a sci-fi ''RomeoAndJuliet''.
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* {{Homage}}: The first book is written in the style of ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'' and the series is inspired by the work of Creator/JohnKeats. In addition, several of the individual tales are homages to other SF works or genres. "The Priest's Tale" bears a a striking resemblance to James Blish's Creator/JamesBlish's ''A Case of Conscience'', "The Detective's Tale" is cyberpunk (complete with a Creator/WilliamGibson NameDrop) and "The Soldier's Tale" uses a lot of elements from Creator/JoeHaldeman's ''Literature/TheForeverWar''. The ''Consul's Tale'' is a sci-fi ''RomeoAndJuliet''.
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* TeleportersAndTransporters: Farcasting allows for instantaneous travel through two connected points. [[spoiler:At the end of the series, ''anyone'' can teleport anywhere using the "Void That Binds".]]
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* TeleportersAndTransporters: Farcasting allows for instantaneous travel through two connected points. [[spoiler:At the end of the series, ''anyone'' can teleport anywhere using the [[PowerOfLove "Void That Binds".Binds"]].]]
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* {{Homage}}: The first book is written in the style of ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'' and the series is inspired by the work of Creator/JohnKeats. In addition, several of the individual tales are homages to other SF works or genres. "The Priest's Tale" bears a a striking resemblance to James Blish's ''A Case of Conscience'', "The Detective's Tale" is cyberpunk (complete with a William Gibson NameDrop) and "The Soldier's Tale" uses a lot of elements from Joe Haldeman's ''The Forever War''. The ''Consul's Tale'' is a sci-fi ''RomeoAndJuliet''.
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* {{Homage}}: The first book is written in the style of ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'' and the series is inspired by the work of Creator/JohnKeats. In addition, several of the individual tales are homages to other SF works or genres. "The Priest's Tale" bears a a striking resemblance to James Blish's ''A Case of Conscience'', "The Detective's Tale" is cyberpunk (complete with a William Gibson Creator/WilliamGibson NameDrop) and "The Soldier's Tale" uses a lot of elements from Joe Haldeman's ''The Forever War''.Creator/JoeHaldeman's ''Literature/TheForeverWar''. The ''Consul's Tale'' is a sci-fi ''RomeoAndJuliet''.
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* SceneryGorn: In the second book, the invasion of Hyperion to a lesser extent, and in huge amounts when the [[spoiler: assumed Ouster swarms destroy Heaven's Gate and God's Grove.]]
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* SceneryGorn: In the second book, the invasion of Hyperion to a lesser extent, and in huge amounts when the [[spoiler: assumed Ouster swarms destroy Heaven's Gate and God's Grove.]]
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* SceneryGorn: In the second book, the invasion of Hyperion to a lesser extent, SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfEnergy: Starships can apparently devastate entire planets and in huge amounts when the [[spoiler: assumed Ouster swarms destroy Heaven's Gate blow up stars. However, any time actual firepower is described, it is kiloton level beams and God's Grove.]]megaton level missiles in single digit salvos. You'll spend a lot of time destroying a trillion square kilometers of force field protected tree that way...
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** CasualTimeTravel: [[spoiler: In the future, it seems to be employed quite literally by the Core and humanity.]]
** FutureBadass: [[spoiler: Rachel becomes Moneta, who is quite capable of taking down Kassad.]]
** MerlinSickness: Rachel Weintraub (the TropeNamer)
** StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler: The entirety of the plot of the series seems to suggest one, but see below.]]
** TerminatorTwosome: [[spoiler: The Core sends the Shrike into the past to kill humanity's Ultimate Intelligence, and Moneta/Rachel follows it to help set the plot into motion.]]
** TimeStandsStill: The Shrike.
** TimeTravelRomance: Kassad and [[spoiler: Rachel Weintraub/]] Moneta.
** YouCantFightFate: Debatable; [[spoiler:Het and Kassad are both destined to die, Rachel is destined to become Moneta, the Shrike is created in the future, ect ect. However, the existence of alternate futures seems to open the possibility that fate isn't set in stone.]]
** FutureBadass: [[spoiler: Rachel becomes Moneta, who is quite capable of taking down Kassad.]]
** MerlinSickness: Rachel Weintraub (the TropeNamer)
** StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler: The entirety of the plot of the series seems to suggest one, but see below.]]
** TerminatorTwosome: [[spoiler: The Core sends the Shrike into the past to kill humanity's Ultimate Intelligence, and Moneta/Rachel follows it to help set the plot into motion.]]
** TimeStandsStill: The Shrike.
** TimeTravelRomance: Kassad and [[spoiler: Rachel Weintraub/]] Moneta.
** YouCantFightFate: Debatable; [[spoiler:Het and Kassad are both destined to die, Rachel is destined to become Moneta, the Shrike is created in the future, ect ect. However, the existence of alternate futures seems to open the possibility that fate isn't set in stone.]]
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** [[spoiler:Later, her boss remarks Nemes cheated instead of actually winning. Later encounters have Shryke easily defeating her clone and the other two clones being sacrificed to take it out]].
** [[spoiler:Later, her boss remarks Nemes cheated instead of actually winning. Later encounters have Shryke easily defeating her clone and the other two clones being sacrificed to take it out]].
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* CurbstompBattle: Pretty much any time the [=TechnoCore=] is involved. Prominent in the second two books, with Archangel-class warships unceremoniously laying waste to almost everything they come up against. [[spoiler:The attack on the Startree is particularly heart-breaking, with millions of Ousters mobilizing to defend what is possibly mankind's greatest achievement in the setting being put to the sword by just a few dozen ships. There is not even a HopeSpot, just endless death and destruction.]]
* DebateAndSwitch: Immortal life at a spiritual cost, or harmony with the universe for a fleeting moment? [[spoiler:Just kidding, immortality means being a slave to the machines. Also, it's damaging to the universe. Also, they constantly need you to die. Also, the life-restoring cruciforms are actually neural parasites. Wait, why is your hand still up?]]
* DysonSphere: Well, Dyson ''Tree''. [[spoiler: There are multiple trees.]]
* DysonSphere: Well, Dyson ''Tree''. [[spoiler: There are multiple trees.]]
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* HijackedbyGanon [[spoiler: Did you think Endymion was about a CorruptChurch? Nope, they're just puppets of the Techno Core.]]
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* ImmortalLifeIsCheap: Many an immortal in the second two books is vaporized, devoured, or melted into the ship's hull, resulting in the "true death". Archangel-class ships are designed with the crew's gruesome and repeated deaths in mind. Considering the excruciating details of the original Archangel's introduction, this doubles as NightmareFuel.
* InformedAbility: Rise of Endymion is full of references to the independent nature, critical thinking tendencies and, at one point, a vast mob of "intelligent, questioning, alert" Aenea's followers. Needless to say, they all obey their leader's every word without question, never hesitate, never second-guess and rarely show any personality beyond total obedience. Aenea's more often than not paradigm-shifting revelations are all taken at face value.
* MagicalNegro: A. Bettik is wiser, stronger, tougher, has better aim and is probably more handsome than the protagonist in Endymion and Rise of Endymion. Naturally, being a blue-skinned android, he spends most of the time sitting back and giving sage advice. [[spoiler:Possibly justified by his status as an observer of human affairs.]]
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* PlanetofHats: Let's see... there's planet of the Jews [[spoiler: which suffers genocide]], planet of the Muslims (a backward, desert world), planet of the tree-worshipping Asians [[spoiler:which gets nuked]], planet of the slums, planet of the bureaucrats, planet of the Catholics...
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* PlanetofHats: Let's see... there's planet of the Jews [[spoiler: which suffers implied genocide]], planet of the Muslims (a backward, desert world), world [[spoiler:also genocide]]), planet of the tree-worshipping Asians [[spoiler:which gets nuked]], planet of the Palestinians(!) (which is - of course - in a permanent state of rebellion), planet of the slums, planet of the bureaucrats, planet of the Catholics...
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* SpaceMarine: Swiss Guard in the second two books are pretty much this. For bonus points, they are foot soldiers of an evil Catholic empire, fighting alien herecy with PoweredArmor and Latin. Yeah, they're [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} that]] kind of Space Marines.
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* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: After a fashion. Normally, you'd think that a guy with a name spelled "Raul" is actually "Raúl", rhymes with "cool"; but right off the bat he says it's Raul, rhymes with Paul.
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* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: After a fashion. Normally, you'd think that a guy with a name spelled "Raul" "R-A-U-L" is actually "Raúl", rhymes with "cool"; but right off the bat he says it's Raul, "Raul," rhymes with Paul."Paul." This makes it ''less'' "fancy", but it's still weird.
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* HonorBeforeReason: That's how Raul Endymion rolls. [[spoiler:Of course, it nearly gets him killed.]]
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* HonorBeforeReason: That's how Raul Endymion rolls. [[spoiler:Of Of course, it nearly gets him killed.]]killed...
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* NightmareFuel: The Shrike's Tree of Thorns, with its thousands of impaled humans being kept alive and conscious indefinitely. [[spolier:The fact that it's just a massive simulation and the victims are being kept under and alive via IV drip somehow makes it ''worse''.]]
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* NightmareFuel: The Shrike's Tree of Thorns, with its thousands of impaled humans being kept alive and conscious indefinitely. [[spolier:The [[spoiler:The fact that it's just a massive simulation and the victims are being kept under and alive via IV drip somehow makes it ''worse''.]]
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* Chekhov's Gun: Both played straight and subverted. [[spoiler:Early on in Endymion, it is established that resurrection (which "normally" takes three days) can be rushed to completion in six hours, at the risk of some major BodyHorror. On the other hand, a literal "Chekhov's gun" - huge plasma rifle, which the narrator mentions and plays up for quite some time - is never used for any significant effect.]]
* HijackedbyGanon [[spoiler: Did you think Endymion was about a CorruptChurch? Nope, they're just puppets of the Techno Core.]]
* NightmareFuel: The Shrike's Tree of Thorns, with its thousands of impaled humans being kept alive and conscious indefinitely. [[spolier:The fact that it's just a massive simulation and the victims are being kept under and alive via IV drip somehow makes it ''worse''.]]
* PlanetofHats: Let's see... there's planet of the Jews [[spoiler: which suffers genocide]], planet of the Muslims (a backward, desert world), planet of the tree-worshipping Asians [[spoiler:which gets nuked]], planet of the slums, planet of the bureaucrats, planet of the Catholics...
* PinballProtagonist: Basically half the plot of Endymion.
* PinballProtagonist: Basically half the plot of Endymion.
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* SlapSlapKiss: More like attempted murder, brutal rape, begrudging consent. Somewhat jarringly, [[spoiler:Moneta]] is never held accountable for the first two and is an otherwise sympathetic character.
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* SlapSlapKiss: More like attempted murder, brutal rape, begrudging murder-brutal rape-begrudging consent. Somewhat jarringly, [[spoiler:Moneta]] is never held accountable for the first two and is an otherwise sympathetic character.
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universe. Some examples are particularly egregious, such as the enigmatic [=TangleWebs=] and the somewhat redundant [=DeathBomb=]. As a rule of thumb, if a device or technology is not named after a person, this is how it's referred to.
* WholePlotReference: Most of the first volume, to ''The Canterbury Tales''. [[spoiler:Also the final part of Endymion, to the second Terminator.]]
* WholePlotReference: Most of the first volume, to ''The Canterbury Tales''. [[spoiler:Also the final part of Endymion, to the second Terminator.]]
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* AuthorAppeal: Dan Simmons is a former public school English teacher, so it amuses him to stuff his genre fiction with as many literary references as he can get away with. For example, the first volume is a WholePlotReference to Chaucer's ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales''. The works of JohnKeats also factor heavily into the series.
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* AuthorAppeal: Dan Simmons is a former public school English teacher, so it amuses him to stuff his genre fiction with as many literary references as he can get away with. For example, the first volume is a WholePlotReference to Chaucer's ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales''. The works of JohnKeats Creator/JohnKeats also factor heavily into the series.
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* {{Homage}}: The first book is written in the style of ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'' and the series is inspired by the work of JohnKeats. In addition, several of the individual tales are homages to other SF works or genres. "The Priest's Tale" bears a a striking resemblance to James Blish's ''A Case of Conscience'', "The Detective's Tale" is cyberpunk (complete with a William Gibson NameDrop) and "The Soldier's Tale" uses a lot of elements from Joe Haldeman's ''The Forever War''. The ''Consul's Tale'' is a sci-fi ''RomeoAndJuliet''.
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* {{Homage}}: The first book is written in the style of ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'' and the series is inspired by the work of JohnKeats.Creator/JohnKeats. In addition, several of the individual tales are homages to other SF works or genres. "The Priest's Tale" bears a a striking resemblance to James Blish's ''A Case of Conscience'', "The Detective's Tale" is cyberpunk (complete with a William Gibson NameDrop) and "The Soldier's Tale" uses a lot of elements from Joe Haldeman's ''The Forever War''. The ''Consul's Tale'' is a sci-fi ''RomeoAndJuliet''.
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* MeaningfulName: Given that DanSimmons is quite fond of literary references galore in his novels, some of the names have meaning beyond just the name. Notable examples being "Brawne" Lamia (Brawne being the last name of JohnKeats' RealLife sweetheart, [[spoiler: and Brawne herself falls in love with a retrieved from the past John Keats in the form of a cybrid]]) and there is also Rachel Weintraub. Rachel means "Lamb" and [[spoiler: at the midpoint of the ''Fall of Hyperion'' she becomes the SacrificialLamb when Sol, her father, re-enacts the Sacrifice of Abraham.]]
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* MeaningfulName: Given that DanSimmons is quite fond of literary references galore in his novels, some of the names have meaning beyond just the name. Notable examples being "Brawne" Lamia (Brawne being the last name of JohnKeats' Creator/JohnKeats' RealLife sweetheart, [[spoiler: and Brawne herself falls in love with a retrieved from the past John Keats in the form of a cybrid]]) and there is also Rachel Weintraub. Rachel means "Lamb" and [[spoiler: at the midpoint of the ''Fall of Hyperion'' she becomes the SacrificialLamb when Sol, her father, re-enacts the Sacrifice of Abraham.]]
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It's eight hundred years into the future, and humanity has fled Earth's accidental destruction at the hands of an [[FreakLabAccident artificial black hole]] and established the [=WorldWeb=], a society of many planets connected through the [[PortalNetwork farcaster network]]. With the help of its allies in the [=TechnoCore=] (a group of emancipated AIs), mankind lives in peace...until the mysterious "Ousters", a splinter race of humanity adapated to living in deep space, attacks the [=WorldWeb=]. As the situation becomes desperate, a group of seven pilgrims is sent to the planet Hyperion, a colony world guarded by the inscrutable killing machine known as the Shrike. Their hope is that their desperate appeal to the Shrike will persuade it to give them some of its alien technology that can save humanity. During the journey, the pilgrims, each of whom [[MysteriousPast has a personal link]] to Hyperion, begin to tell each other their stories, and realize that things are ''much'' more complicated than they thought...
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The ''Hyperion Cantos'' is a series of four science fiction novels written by DanSimmons. They are:
# ''Hyperion''
# ''The Fall of Hyperion''
# ''Endymion''
# ''The Rise of Endymion''
It's eight hundred years into the future, and humanity has fled Earth's accidental destruction at the hands of an [[FreakLabAccident artificial black hole]] and established the [=WorldWeb=], a society of many planets connected through the [[PortalNetwork farcaster network]]. With the help of its allies in the [=TechnoCore=] (a group of emancipated AIs), mankind lives in peace...until the mysterious "Ousters", a splinter race of humanity adapated to living in deep space, attacks the [=WorldWeb=]. As the situation becomes desperate, a group of seven pilgrims is sent to the planet Hyperion, a colony world guarded by the inscrutable killing machine known as the Shrike. Their hope is that their desperate appeal to the Shrike will persuade it to give them some of its alien technology that can save humanity. During the journey, the pilgrims, each of whom [[MysteriousPast has a personal link]] to Hyperion, begin to tell each other their stories, and realize that things are ''much'' more complicated than they thought...
Overall, the series is inspired by the unfinished epic poem ''Hyperion'' by JohnKeats. The first book is modeled after ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'', especially in how each pilgrim has an opportunity to tell their own individual story.
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!!Provides Examples Of:
* ArtificialHuman: Androids are practically vat-grown humans, and cybrids are essentially biological terminals for the Core. Nemes might qualify as one as well.
* AIIsACrapshoot: The [=TechnoCore=].
* AllHailTheGreatGodMickey: The Templars and the Voice of the Tree appear to worship John Muir, a major proponent for the preservation of American forests in the early 19th Century, and a book of Muir's is found among Het Masteen's possessions after [[spoiler: he is apparently killed by the Shrike.]] The Templar's devotion to Muir vaguely resembles that of Literature/BraveNewWorld's adulation of Henry Ford as a god-figure in the future.
* AndIMustScream:
** The Shrike's victims on the Tree of Pain.
** Also Father Duré. And Rachel Weintraub. And Martin Silenus, though in his case it taught him real poetry. Dan Simmons is good friends with Harlan Ellison.
* AuthorAppeal: Dan Simmons is a former public school English teacher, so it amuses him to stuff his genre fiction with as many literary references as he can get away with. For example, the first volume is a WholePlotReference to Chaucer's ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales''. The works of JohnKeats also factor heavily into the series.
* BackAlleyDoctor: Brawne and Johnny visit one in one of Lusus' seedier Hives.
* BlessedWithSuck:
** The cruciform in ''Hyperion'' and ''The Fall of Hyperion'' is a cross-shaped parasite that grants its hosts a powerful HealingFactor - but slowly turns them into physically and mentally neutered caricatures of humanity.
** It doesn't get much better in ''Endymion'' and ''The Rise of Endymion'', it makes you dependent on the Pax [[spoiler: and gives your mind over to the Core]]. It also functions as built in shock collar.
* BodyHorror: The cruciforms.
* TheButcher: Colonel Kassad. The "backhanded compliment" version, at least to some.
* ChameleonCamouflage: Military PowerArmor works that way.
* ColonelBadass: Kassad again.
* CorruptChurch: Very much so in the latter two books with the "Pax", a descendant of the Vatican that controls nearly all of mankind. While individual members (along with the occasional [[spoiler:pope]]) may be good, the church overall acts as one of the main villain organizations in ''Endymion'' and ''Rise of Endymion''.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Aenea is a messiah, who trains as a architect and [[spoiler:shares her blood and lets herself be killed to liberate mankind.]]
* DoingInTheWizard: In the first two books, the Shrike has an air of mystery, heightening it's scariness. In the later two book, its origins are fully explained and retconned in a way that rather diminishes its badassness.
* DramaPreservingHandicap: In the fourth novel, when Raul takes on Nemes barehanded, it's worth noting that for the duration of the fight, the PowersThatBe have taken away her ability to move in [[BulletTime Laser Time]], so that it's just slightly more of an even fight. Although she still has bones made of metal, has long claws, shark teeth, feels no pain, etc.
* EarthThatWas: [[spoiler: it gets better.]]
* DysonSphere: Well, Dyson ''Tree''. [[spoiler: There are multiple trees.]]
* EnsembleCast: The first book.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Consul.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The condition the Ousters keep their prisoners of war in. The Tree of Pain is also this.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Hoyt murders Duré and becomes the Pope. By spreading the cruciform to humanity, he enslaves it to the Core.]]
* FaunsAndSatyrs: Martin Silenus undergoes SpaceOpera style body modifications to turn himself into a satyric figure.
* FranchiseZombie: an in-universe example, in "The Poet's Tale" in ''Hyperion''
* GambitPileup: Pretty much what caused [[spoiler:the Ouster invasion. The Core provokes Bressia to attack the Ouster Swarm secretly, so the Swarm's massive retaliation looks like unprovoked barbaric aggression to the Hegemony. Said [[DisproportionateRetribution massive retaliation]] is actually not the Ousters, but instead the Core making sure the Web is freaked out about how genocidal and tough the Ousters are. Meanwhile the Core plants more fake Swarms around the Web so they can manufacture an invasion on demand. When Gladstone brings Hyperion into the Web, the real Ousters invade there to keep the Core from taking the Time Tombs. The Core sends their fake invasion against the Web and hands the Hegemony the deathwand device, urging them to point it at the real Ousters.]] ... did I miss anything?
* GenreSavvy : Many of the characters quip various [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] in various archetypal situtations (i. e. father Duré wondering at first if the Bikura [[GodGuise hadn't mistakened him for a deity]], remarking that something like that is worthy of clichéd holonovels).
* GlorifiedSpermDonor: Martin's father takes this trope UpToEleven.
* GodWasMyCopilot: [[spoiler: Bettik is the Observer for the Lions and Tigers and Bears.]]
* HeavyWorlder: Brawne Lamia (and all other Lusans, by extension), as well as the ([[HufflepuffHouse not often seen]]) folks from Sol Draconi Septem.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: De Soya, and (most) the crew of both his ''Archangel'' ships.]]
* HeldGaze: One happens between Kassad and [[spoiler: Moneta when they are lying on the forest floor after they have just met.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler: Rachel]]'s adventures are hinted at in a few tantalizing scenes in first, second and fourth books.
* HiddenVillain
* {{Homage}}: The first book is written in the style of ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'' and the series is inspired by the work of JohnKeats. In addition, several of the individual tales are homages to other SF works or genres. "The Priest's Tale" bears a a striking resemblance to James Blish's ''A Case of Conscience'', "The Detective's Tale" is cyberpunk (complete with a William Gibson NameDrop) and "The Soldier's Tale" uses a lot of elements from Joe Haldeman's ''The Forever War''. The ''Consul's Tale'' is a sci-fi ''RomeoAndJuliet''.
* HumanPopsicle: Used for interstellar travel. [[spoiler:Silenus uses this to extend his life, and the Core does this to bilions of humans in the second half of the series to use them as massive parallel processors.]]
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: The Gideon drive is described as being terrifying to use, and kills you incredibly painfully.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The Shrike gets its name from its habit of doing this.
* InvisibilityFlicker: The Shrike could (and sometimes does) fight without ever being seen but it's too sadistic to not make itself known most of the time. Being NighInvulnerable means that it doesn't come as much of a risk.
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Book Two. Well, almost]].
* {{Koan}}: Ummon has quite a few of these. Not surprising, given that he's [[MeaningfulName named after the great Chinese Zen master]], Yunmen Wenyan, known in Japanese (and from there English) as Ummon. Some of them may or may not have the IceCreamKoan nature, depending on [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation how firmly you believe]] the AIs are really in control of things.
* KudzuPlot
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:The Core]] in the first two books are behind everything from [[spoiler:the Ouster invasion]] to [[spoiler:the ''motherfucking Shrike!'']]
* MayDecemberRomance: Raul and Aenea are a rather extreme example; they first met when he was twenty-seven and Aenea was merely twelve. Although it's worth pointing out that [[spoiler: their ages are drawn closer together by effects of relativistic time-debt before they actually hook up.]]
* MeaningfulName: Given that DanSimmons is quite fond of literary references galore in his novels, some of the names have meaning beyond just the name. Notable examples being "Brawne" Lamia (Brawne being the last name of JohnKeats' RealLife sweetheart, [[spoiler: and Brawne herself falls in love with a retrieved from the past John Keats in the form of a cybrid]]) and there is also Rachel Weintraub. Rachel means "Lamb" and [[spoiler: at the midpoint of the ''Fall of Hyperion'' she becomes the SacrificialLamb when Sol, her father, re-enacts the Sacrifice of Abraham.]]
* TheMessiah: Aenea, prophesied as the 'One-Who-Teaches'.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: The Shrike.
* {{Nanomachines}}: A ubiquitous part of the setting.
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Occasionally used, more than not often [[AvertedTrope averted.]]
* NearVillainVictory: ''Fall of Hyperion''. And how.
* NighInvulnerability: The cruciform allows for regeneration from [[FromASingleCell a few molecules]], albeit as an increasingly more retarded and genderless being. [[spoiler: The Core can prevent the degeneration.]] The Shrike and Nemes also have this: The Shrike is MadeOfDiamond to practically everything, [[spoiler: and with TimeTravel, it can 'come back' from destruction.]] Nemes, when phase shifted, shows invulnerability second only to the Shrike; [[spoiler: even an ''eighty gigawatt laser'' was unable to destroy her, or cause any notable harm.]]
* NonLinearCharacter: Moneta [[spoiler: Who is actually Rachel Weintraub, whose experience in the Time Tombs has enabled her to move backwards and forwards in time and space, thus allowing her to have a TimeTravelRomance with Kassad, be one of Aenea's disciples and ultimately save herself when her father sacrifices her to the Shrike. In a way, one might say that she's this series' [[Series/DoctorWho River Song]].]]
* NoNameGiven: The Consul.
* OffingTheOffspring: Big spoiler here. [[spoiler: Sol Weintraub reenacts the Sacrifice of Abraham.]]
** [[spoiler: Considering she was only seconds away from non-existence, this might have been the only way to save her.]]
* OhCrap: When Kassad is in a simulation of the Battle of Agincourt, he notices that he might be trained with every kind of future weaponry and a longbow as well, but doesn't have any of those things at hand right now - and he just charged alone after a heavily armed knight. His reaction? ''"Ah shit."''
* OneManArmy: The Shrike can, and does kill thousands of people and dozens of vehicles in less then a picosecond. ''Literally''. Nemes [[spoiler: and her 'siblings']] are each capable of tearing through an army as well.
* OrganicTechnology: Fairly common in the universe; the largest example being the Templars tree ships, which are giant, space-travelling trees protected by [[DeflectorShields force fields]] generated from living things. Many forms of AI are apparently DNA based, whatever that means. [[spoiler: The Core utilizes humans as vast parallel processors, first by using people travelling through farcasters, and then using the cruciforms.]]
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: Kassad's conquest and [[TheSiege defense]] of the Solar System are largely off-camera.]]
* OurGodsAreGreater: They're called Ultimate Intelligences, at least some are computers, and we create them, not the other way around.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Depending on your definition of 'person', the Shrike. He/it is effectively invulnerable, and with his time/space manipulation he/it can kill thousands in less then a second.
* PhysicalGod: The Shrike can freely manipulate time and space, and is for all intents and purposes invulnerable. Appropriately enough, he has a church devoted to him.
* PortalDoor
* PoweredArmor: The combat armor worn by FORCE troops in the first two books, which lets Kassad move his hand in a simple chop faster than the speed of sound to decapitate an opponent; it also has an entire ton of specialised defensive capacities (absorbing concussions as well as impacts from rifle bullets or grenade fragments as well as radiating off the energy from laser beams and). The Swiss Guard's armor in the second two would likewise count. And one might make an argument for the skinsuits that Kassad and Moneta utilize, which give incredible strength, speed, and durability, and as a bonus makes the wearer into a ChromeChampion.
* PowerOfLove: [[spoiler: The Void That Binds. Allows for time travel and a form of telepathy/psychometry with all living things. Not bad, is it?]]
* PowersThatBe: The "Lions and Tigers and Bears." Not to mention the various Ultimate Intelligences.
* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler:Brawne Lamia.]]
* ReformedButRejected: No one ever remembers that Col. Kassad resigned his commission and became an anti-war activist; once you earn a nickname like "[[TheButcher The Butcher of South Bressia]]", you're not going to get remembered for anything else
* {{Retcon}}: The second two books revise and reinterpret many of the events of the first two. See DoingInTheWizard above.
* RetroRocket: The Consul's starship is designed to look like one. His intent was to make it fit the Platonic ideal of "space ship".
* RiverOfInsanity : Father Duré's expedition to the mysterious Bikura tribe on Hyperion, retold by Hoyt in the Priest's Tale.
* RubberForeheadAliens: Averted; several sapient species described in Hyperion are incredibly different. Even the Ousters, who are genetically altered humans, can look radically different from normal humans.
* SapientCetaceans: There is mention of intelligent telepathic dolphins. Unfortuantly they were hunted nearly to extinction because it was discovered they were sentient.
* SapientShip: The Consul's "singleship" is piloted by an AI (and lacks obvious manual controls).
* SceneryGorn: In the second book, the invasion of Hyperion to a lesser extent, and in huge amounts when the [[spoiler: assumed Ouster swarms destroy Heaven's Gate and God's Grove.]]
* SevenDirtyWords: Brain damage reduces Martin Silenus' vocabulary to these, for a time.
* ShoutOut:
** Martin Silenus' monster best-seller is called "The Dying Earth", in reference to Jack Vance's ''Literature/DyingEarth''.
** The John Keats stuff is usually discussed [[DiscussedTrope by the characters themselves]].
** There's even a ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' reference near the end of the first book. The Hegemony truly has no culture save for what it remembers from Old Earth.
** The opening paragraph is basically a long version of the quintessential line, "[[ItWasADarkAndStormyNight It was a dark and stormy night.]]"
** It also has an absolutely hysterical reference to Magazine/{{MAD}} in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it line about 43-Man Squamish.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Martin Silenus' entire Modus Operandi.
* SpikesOfVillainy: The Shrike.
* SwissArmyGun: The multipurpose FORCE assault rifle. A [[FrickinLaserBeams Laser beam throwing]], [[SecondaryFire flechette grenade launching]] DisintegratorRay [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot particle cannon]] [[{{Troperiffic}} sniper rifle]]. It is said in the novel that the only thing it was not designed to do is cook the troops' food, but with its energy weapon component on its lowest setting, it could probably do that too.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: Farcasting allows for instantaneous travel through two connected points. [[spoiler:At the end of the series, ''anyone'' can teleport anywhere using the "Void That Binds".]]
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Kassad and [[spoiler: the Shrike. ''The Rise of Endymion'' reveals that he is only one allowed to do so because part of his soul resides in the Shrike, thus he is paradoxically killing himself. But doing so {paradoxically} ensures that he lives into the future and becomes Moneta's lover and one of the heroes of the ''Hyperion Cantos'' saga. Whoa, now that is deep stuff, now isn't it.]]
* ThirdLineSomeWaiting
* TimeTravel: Uses a ton of TimeTravel tropes, seeing as how time travel is key to the series:
** CasualTimeTravel: [[spoiler: In the future, it seems to be employed quite literally by the Core and humanity.]]
** FutureBadass: [[spoiler: Rachel becomes Moneta, who is quite capable of taking down Kassad.]]
** MerlinSickness: Rachel Weintraub (the TropeNamer)
** StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler: The entirety of the plot of the series seems to suggest one, but see below.]]
** TerminatorTwosome: [[spoiler: The Core sends the Shrike into the past to kill humanity's Ultimate Intelligence, and Moneta/Rachel follows it to help set the plot into motion.]]
** TimeStandsStill: The Shrike.
** TimeTravelRomance: Kassad and [[spoiler: Rachel Weintraub/]] Moneta.
** YouCantFightFate: Debatable; [[spoiler:Het and Kassad are both destined to die, Rachel is destined to become Moneta, the Shrike is created in the future, ect ect. However, the existence of alternate futures seems to open the possibility that fate isn't set in stone.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: Raul lies several times, like when he claims to not know Aenea's fate. He admits it later, and proceeds to dump us, the readers with [[spoiler:a torture scene, followed by Aenea burning to death. She almost has her eyelids and nose chewed off by a Nemes clone. Slowly.]] Who knows what else he hid from us?
* UniversalDriversLicense: Raul contemplates this in ''Endymion'' as he considers stealing an ornithopter. He realizes he can't fly one, and [[LampshadeHanging muses that the fictional heroes who]] ''[[LampshadeHanging could]]'' [[LampshadeHanging pilot any vehicle]].
* WeWillUseWikiWordsInTheFuture: The [=TechnoCore=], the [=WorldWeb=], and the [=AllThing=] being the most prominent examples.
* WholePlotReference: Most of the first volume, to ''The Canterbury Tales''.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The cruciform keeps you from dying no matter how much you might want to--and also keeps you from leaving a small geographic area. In the second duology, the technology has been harnessed to keep humanity virtually immortal, but at a spiritual price.
* WretchedHive: These abound, although the most prominent (and--for us--amusing) is the one on Lusus.
* ZeroGSpot: Raul and Aenea's weightless consummation of their relationship in the Ouster Startree is described in great..."detail".
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The ''Hyperion Cantos'' is a series of four science fiction novels written by DanSimmons. They are:
# ''Hyperion''
# ''The Fall of Hyperion''
# ''Endymion''
# ''The Rise of Endymion''
It's eight hundred years into the future, and humanity has fled Earth's accidental destruction at the hands of an [[FreakLabAccident artificial black hole]] and established the [=WorldWeb=], a society of many planets connected through the [[PortalNetwork farcaster network]]. With the help of its allies in the [=TechnoCore=] (a group of emancipated AIs), mankind lives in peace...until the mysterious "Ousters", a splinter race of humanity adapated to living in deep space, attacks the [=WorldWeb=]. As the situation becomes desperate, a group of seven pilgrims is sent to the planet Hyperion, a colony world guarded by the inscrutable killing machine known as the Shrike. Their hope is that their desperate appeal to the Shrike will persuade it to give them some of its alien technology that can save humanity. During the journey, the pilgrims, each of whom [[MysteriousPast has a personal link]] to Hyperion, begin to tell each other their stories, and realize that things are ''much'' more complicated than they thought...
Overall, the series is inspired by the unfinished epic poem ''Hyperion'' by JohnKeats. The first book is modeled after ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'', especially in how each pilgrim has an opportunity to tell their own individual story.
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!!Provides Examples Of:
* ArtificialHuman: Androids are practically vat-grown humans, and cybrids are essentially biological terminals for the Core. Nemes might qualify as one as well.
* AIIsACrapshoot: The [=TechnoCore=].
* AllHailTheGreatGodMickey: The Templars and the Voice of the Tree appear to worship John Muir, a major proponent for the preservation of American forests in the early 19th Century, and a book of Muir's is found among Het Masteen's possessions after [[spoiler: he is apparently killed by the Shrike.]] The Templar's devotion to Muir vaguely resembles that of Literature/BraveNewWorld's adulation of Henry Ford as a god-figure in the future.
* AndIMustScream:
** The Shrike's victims on the Tree of Pain.
** Also Father Duré. And Rachel Weintraub. And Martin Silenus, though in his case it taught him real poetry. Dan Simmons is good friends with Harlan Ellison.
* AuthorAppeal: Dan Simmons is a former public school English teacher, so it amuses him to stuff his genre fiction with as many literary references as he can get away with. For example, the first volume is a WholePlotReference to Chaucer's ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales''. The works of JohnKeats also factor heavily into the series.
* BackAlleyDoctor: Brawne and Johnny visit one in one of Lusus' seedier Hives.
* BlessedWithSuck:
** The cruciform in ''Hyperion'' and ''The Fall of Hyperion'' is a cross-shaped parasite that grants its hosts a powerful HealingFactor - but slowly turns them into physically and mentally neutered caricatures of humanity.
** It doesn't get much better in ''Endymion'' and ''The Rise of Endymion'', it makes you dependent on the Pax [[spoiler: and gives your mind over to the Core]]. It also functions as built in shock collar.
* BodyHorror: The cruciforms.
* TheButcher: Colonel Kassad. The "backhanded compliment" version, at least to some.
* ChameleonCamouflage: Military PowerArmor works that way.
* ColonelBadass: Kassad again.
* CorruptChurch: Very much so in the latter two books with the "Pax", a descendant of the Vatican that controls nearly all of mankind. While individual members (along with the occasional [[spoiler:pope]]) may be good, the church overall acts as one of the main villain organizations in ''Endymion'' and ''Rise of Endymion''.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Aenea is a messiah, who trains as a architect and [[spoiler:shares her blood and lets herself be killed to liberate mankind.]]
* DoingInTheWizard: In the first two books, the Shrike has an air of mystery, heightening it's scariness. In the later two book, its origins are fully explained and retconned in a way that rather diminishes its badassness.
* DramaPreservingHandicap: In the fourth novel, when Raul takes on Nemes barehanded, it's worth noting that for the duration of the fight, the PowersThatBe have taken away her ability to move in [[BulletTime Laser Time]], so that it's just slightly more of an even fight. Although she still has bones made of metal, has long claws, shark teeth, feels no pain, etc.
* EarthThatWas: [[spoiler: it gets better.]]
* DysonSphere: Well, Dyson ''Tree''. [[spoiler: There are multiple trees.]]
* EnsembleCast: The first book.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Consul.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The condition the Ousters keep their prisoners of war in. The Tree of Pain is also this.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Hoyt murders Duré and becomes the Pope. By spreading the cruciform to humanity, he enslaves it to the Core.]]
* FaunsAndSatyrs: Martin Silenus undergoes SpaceOpera style body modifications to turn himself into a satyric figure.
* FranchiseZombie: an in-universe example, in "The Poet's Tale" in ''Hyperion''
* GambitPileup: Pretty much what caused [[spoiler:the Ouster invasion. The Core provokes Bressia to attack the Ouster Swarm secretly, so the Swarm's massive retaliation looks like unprovoked barbaric aggression to the Hegemony. Said [[DisproportionateRetribution massive retaliation]] is actually not the Ousters, but instead the Core making sure the Web is freaked out about how genocidal and tough the Ousters are. Meanwhile the Core plants more fake Swarms around the Web so they can manufacture an invasion on demand. When Gladstone brings Hyperion into the Web, the real Ousters invade there to keep the Core from taking the Time Tombs. The Core sends their fake invasion against the Web and hands the Hegemony the deathwand device, urging them to point it at the real Ousters.]] ... did I miss anything?
* GenreSavvy : Many of the characters quip various [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] in various archetypal situtations (i. e. father Duré wondering at first if the Bikura [[GodGuise hadn't mistakened him for a deity]], remarking that something like that is worthy of clichéd holonovels).
* GlorifiedSpermDonor: Martin's father takes this trope UpToEleven.
* GodWasMyCopilot: [[spoiler: Bettik is the Observer for the Lions and Tigers and Bears.]]
* HeavyWorlder: Brawne Lamia (and all other Lusans, by extension), as well as the ([[HufflepuffHouse not often seen]]) folks from Sol Draconi Septem.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: De Soya, and (most) the crew of both his ''Archangel'' ships.]]
* HeldGaze: One happens between Kassad and [[spoiler: Moneta when they are lying on the forest floor after they have just met.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler: Rachel]]'s adventures are hinted at in a few tantalizing scenes in first, second and fourth books.
* HiddenVillain
* {{Homage}}: The first book is written in the style of ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'' and the series is inspired by the work of JohnKeats. In addition, several of the individual tales are homages to other SF works or genres. "The Priest's Tale" bears a a striking resemblance to James Blish's ''A Case of Conscience'', "The Detective's Tale" is cyberpunk (complete with a William Gibson NameDrop) and "The Soldier's Tale" uses a lot of elements from Joe Haldeman's ''The Forever War''. The ''Consul's Tale'' is a sci-fi ''RomeoAndJuliet''.
* HumanPopsicle: Used for interstellar travel. [[spoiler:Silenus uses this to extend his life, and the Core does this to bilions of humans in the second half of the series to use them as massive parallel processors.]]
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: The Gideon drive is described as being terrifying to use, and kills you incredibly painfully.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The Shrike gets its name from its habit of doing this.
* InvisibilityFlicker: The Shrike could (and sometimes does) fight without ever being seen but it's too sadistic to not make itself known most of the time. Being NighInvulnerable means that it doesn't come as much of a risk.
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Book Two. Well, almost]].
* {{Koan}}: Ummon has quite a few of these. Not surprising, given that he's [[MeaningfulName named after the great Chinese Zen master]], Yunmen Wenyan, known in Japanese (and from there English) as Ummon. Some of them may or may not have the IceCreamKoan nature, depending on [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation how firmly you believe]] the AIs are really in control of things.
* KudzuPlot
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:The Core]] in the first two books are behind everything from [[spoiler:the Ouster invasion]] to [[spoiler:the ''motherfucking Shrike!'']]
* MayDecemberRomance: Raul and Aenea are a rather extreme example; they first met when he was twenty-seven and Aenea was merely twelve. Although it's worth pointing out that [[spoiler: their ages are drawn closer together by effects of relativistic time-debt before they actually hook up.]]
* MeaningfulName: Given that DanSimmons is quite fond of literary references galore in his novels, some of the names have meaning beyond just the name. Notable examples being "Brawne" Lamia (Brawne being the last name of JohnKeats' RealLife sweetheart, [[spoiler: and Brawne herself falls in love with a retrieved from the past John Keats in the form of a cybrid]]) and there is also Rachel Weintraub. Rachel means "Lamb" and [[spoiler: at the midpoint of the ''Fall of Hyperion'' she becomes the SacrificialLamb when Sol, her father, re-enacts the Sacrifice of Abraham.]]
* TheMessiah: Aenea, prophesied as the 'One-Who-Teaches'.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: The Shrike.
* {{Nanomachines}}: A ubiquitous part of the setting.
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Occasionally used, more than not often [[AvertedTrope averted.]]
* NearVillainVictory: ''Fall of Hyperion''. And how.
* NighInvulnerability: The cruciform allows for regeneration from [[FromASingleCell a few molecules]], albeit as an increasingly more retarded and genderless being. [[spoiler: The Core can prevent the degeneration.]] The Shrike and Nemes also have this: The Shrike is MadeOfDiamond to practically everything, [[spoiler: and with TimeTravel, it can 'come back' from destruction.]] Nemes, when phase shifted, shows invulnerability second only to the Shrike; [[spoiler: even an ''eighty gigawatt laser'' was unable to destroy her, or cause any notable harm.]]
* NonLinearCharacter: Moneta [[spoiler: Who is actually Rachel Weintraub, whose experience in the Time Tombs has enabled her to move backwards and forwards in time and space, thus allowing her to have a TimeTravelRomance with Kassad, be one of Aenea's disciples and ultimately save herself when her father sacrifices her to the Shrike. In a way, one might say that she's this series' [[Series/DoctorWho River Song]].]]
* NoNameGiven: The Consul.
* OffingTheOffspring: Big spoiler here. [[spoiler: Sol Weintraub reenacts the Sacrifice of Abraham.]]
** [[spoiler: Considering she was only seconds away from non-existence, this might have been the only way to save her.]]
* OhCrap: When Kassad is in a simulation of the Battle of Agincourt, he notices that he might be trained with every kind of future weaponry and a longbow as well, but doesn't have any of those things at hand right now - and he just charged alone after a heavily armed knight. His reaction? ''"Ah shit."''
* OneManArmy: The Shrike can, and does kill thousands of people and dozens of vehicles in less then a picosecond. ''Literally''. Nemes [[spoiler: and her 'siblings']] are each capable of tearing through an army as well.
* OrganicTechnology: Fairly common in the universe; the largest example being the Templars tree ships, which are giant, space-travelling trees protected by [[DeflectorShields force fields]] generated from living things. Many forms of AI are apparently DNA based, whatever that means. [[spoiler: The Core utilizes humans as vast parallel processors, first by using people travelling through farcasters, and then using the cruciforms.]]
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: Kassad's conquest and [[TheSiege defense]] of the Solar System are largely off-camera.]]
* OurGodsAreGreater: They're called Ultimate Intelligences, at least some are computers, and we create them, not the other way around.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Depending on your definition of 'person', the Shrike. He/it is effectively invulnerable, and with his time/space manipulation he/it can kill thousands in less then a second.
* PhysicalGod: The Shrike can freely manipulate time and space, and is for all intents and purposes invulnerable. Appropriately enough, he has a church devoted to him.
* PortalDoor
* PoweredArmor: The combat armor worn by FORCE troops in the first two books, which lets Kassad move his hand in a simple chop faster than the speed of sound to decapitate an opponent; it also has an entire ton of specialised defensive capacities (absorbing concussions as well as impacts from rifle bullets or grenade fragments as well as radiating off the energy from laser beams and). The Swiss Guard's armor in the second two would likewise count. And one might make an argument for the skinsuits that Kassad and Moneta utilize, which give incredible strength, speed, and durability, and as a bonus makes the wearer into a ChromeChampion.
* PowerOfLove: [[spoiler: The Void That Binds. Allows for time travel and a form of telepathy/psychometry with all living things. Not bad, is it?]]
* PowersThatBe: The "Lions and Tigers and Bears." Not to mention the various Ultimate Intelligences.
* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler:Brawne Lamia.]]
* ReformedButRejected: No one ever remembers that Col. Kassad resigned his commission and became an anti-war activist; once you earn a nickname like "[[TheButcher The Butcher of South Bressia]]", you're not going to get remembered for anything else
* {{Retcon}}: The second two books revise and reinterpret many of the events of the first two. See DoingInTheWizard above.
* RetroRocket: The Consul's starship is designed to look like one. His intent was to make it fit the Platonic ideal of "space ship".
* RiverOfInsanity : Father Duré's expedition to the mysterious Bikura tribe on Hyperion, retold by Hoyt in the Priest's Tale.
* RubberForeheadAliens: Averted; several sapient species described in Hyperion are incredibly different. Even the Ousters, who are genetically altered humans, can look radically different from normal humans.
* SapientCetaceans: There is mention of intelligent telepathic dolphins. Unfortuantly they were hunted nearly to extinction because it was discovered they were sentient.
* SapientShip: The Consul's "singleship" is piloted by an AI (and lacks obvious manual controls).
* SceneryGorn: In the second book, the invasion of Hyperion to a lesser extent, and in huge amounts when the [[spoiler: assumed Ouster swarms destroy Heaven's Gate and God's Grove.]]
* SevenDirtyWords: Brain damage reduces Martin Silenus' vocabulary to these, for a time.
* ShoutOut:
** Martin Silenus' monster best-seller is called "The Dying Earth", in reference to Jack Vance's ''Literature/DyingEarth''.
** The John Keats stuff is usually discussed [[DiscussedTrope by the characters themselves]].
** There's even a ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' reference near the end of the first book. The Hegemony truly has no culture save for what it remembers from Old Earth.
** The opening paragraph is basically a long version of the quintessential line, "[[ItWasADarkAndStormyNight It was a dark and stormy night.]]"
** It also has an absolutely hysterical reference to Magazine/{{MAD}} in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it line about 43-Man Squamish.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Martin Silenus' entire Modus Operandi.
* SpikesOfVillainy: The Shrike.
* SwissArmyGun: The multipurpose FORCE assault rifle. A [[FrickinLaserBeams Laser beam throwing]], [[SecondaryFire flechette grenade launching]] DisintegratorRay [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot particle cannon]] [[{{Troperiffic}} sniper rifle]]. It is said in the novel that the only thing it was not designed to do is cook the troops' food, but with its energy weapon component on its lowest setting, it could probably do that too.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: Farcasting allows for instantaneous travel through two connected points. [[spoiler:At the end of the series, ''anyone'' can teleport anywhere using the "Void That Binds".]]
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Kassad and [[spoiler: the Shrike. ''The Rise of Endymion'' reveals that he is only one allowed to do so because part of his soul resides in the Shrike, thus he is paradoxically killing himself. But doing so {paradoxically} ensures that he lives into the future and becomes Moneta's lover and one of the heroes of the ''Hyperion Cantos'' saga. Whoa, now that is deep stuff, now isn't it.]]
* ThirdLineSomeWaiting
* TimeTravel: Uses a ton of TimeTravel tropes, seeing as how time travel is key to the series:
** CasualTimeTravel: [[spoiler: In the future, it seems to be employed quite literally by the Core and humanity.]]
** FutureBadass: [[spoiler: Rachel becomes Moneta, who is quite capable of taking down Kassad.]]
** MerlinSickness: Rachel Weintraub (the TropeNamer)
** StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler: The entirety of the plot of the series seems to suggest one, but see below.]]
** TerminatorTwosome: [[spoiler: The Core sends the Shrike into the past to kill humanity's Ultimate Intelligence, and Moneta/Rachel follows it to help set the plot into motion.]]
** TimeStandsStill: The Shrike.
** TimeTravelRomance: Kassad and [[spoiler: Rachel Weintraub/]] Moneta.
** YouCantFightFate: Debatable; [[spoiler:Het and Kassad are both destined to die, Rachel is destined to become Moneta, the Shrike is created in the future, ect ect. However, the existence of alternate futures seems to open the possibility that fate isn't set in stone.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: Raul lies several times, like when he claims to not know Aenea's fate. He admits it later, and proceeds to dump us, the readers with [[spoiler:a torture scene, followed by Aenea burning to death. She almost has her eyelids and nose chewed off by a Nemes clone. Slowly.]] Who knows what else he hid from us?
* UniversalDriversLicense: Raul contemplates this in ''Endymion'' as he considers stealing an ornithopter. He realizes he can't fly one, and [[LampshadeHanging muses that the fictional heroes who]] ''[[LampshadeHanging could]]'' [[LampshadeHanging pilot any vehicle]].
* WeWillUseWikiWordsInTheFuture: The [=TechnoCore=], the [=WorldWeb=], and the [=AllThing=] being the most prominent examples.
* WholePlotReference: Most of the first volume, to ''The Canterbury Tales''.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The cruciform keeps you from dying no matter how much you might want to--and also keeps you from leaving a small geographic area. In the second duology, the technology has been harnessed to keep humanity virtually immortal, but at a spiritual price.
* WretchedHive: These abound, although the most prominent (and--for us--amusing) is the one on Lusus.
* ZeroGSpot: Raul and Aenea's weightless consummation of their relationship in the Ouster Startree is described in great..."detail".
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