So I'm reading Hyperion, and I am roughly 55% of the way there.<BR><BR><BR>I'm at the stage where the man and wife's daughter is 13 now I think and he is meeting with the church of the shrike.< ...

Influenced by The Canterbury Tales, Dan Simmons' novel follows a band of characters as they journey towards the distant planet of Hyperion in search of the demon-god known as The Shrike.

On the distant, backwater planet Hyperion, among the ancient and mysterious Time Tombs, lives the Shrike: an evil, inorganic, god-like being. On the eve of galactic war and mankind's destruction ...

The synopsis of the book, first published in 1989, is as follows: On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are thos ...

Story is set in the distant future, as a space war threatens Hyperion, a planet known for the Time Tombs — large artifacts that can move through time and are guarded by a gruesome monster called the ...