Hardcover, 517 pages
English language
Published March 1990 by Doubleday Foundation.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-385-24950-8
- OCLC Number:
- 20093277
- ISFDB ID:
- 1970
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In his stunning conclusion to the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Dan Simmons returns us to a far future brimming with drama and invention. Where, on the world called Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. Where seven pilgrims risk their lives to petition the entity called the Shrike—a creature that may well control the fate of all mankind.
The Hegemony of Man—a thousand thousand worlds linked by a network of farcaster portals and high-tech gateways—is under siege by Ousters, strange, half-human tribes mutated almost beyond recognition. The year before, using technology frighteningly beyond the Hegemony's own, the Ousters laid waste to an outlying world. Not a single person survived.
The AIs—Artificial Intelligences whose synthetic wisdom created and now maintains the nets that bind the Hegemony—have become a threat. There are hints that they have turned against the Hegemony and all mankind. There is evidence that they have begun a …
In his stunning conclusion to the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Dan Simmons returns us to a far future brimming with drama and invention. Where, on the world called Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. Where seven pilgrims risk their lives to petition the entity called the Shrike—a creature that may well control the fate of all mankind.
The Hegemony of Man—a thousand thousand worlds linked by a network of farcaster portals and high-tech gateways—is under siege by Ousters, strange, half-human tribes mutated almost beyond recognition. The year before, using technology frighteningly beyond the Hegemony's own, the Ousters laid waste to an outlying world. Not a single person survived.
The AIs—Artificial Intelligences whose synthetic wisdom created and now maintains the nets that bind the Hegemony—have become a threat. There are hints that they have turned against the Hegemony and all mankind. There is evidence that they have begun a strange and frightening project: a scheme to create the Ultimate Intelligence-to build, in short, God. God of the Machines: the ultimate deus ex machina.
No one expects—even for an instant—that the God of the Machines will have the least love for mankind. Indeed, his genesis may well mean man's annihilation.
Something is coming—something that draws the Hegemony, the Als, the Ousters, and indeed the entire universe toward the Shrike and the Time Tombs from which it has arisen. In a moment the paths of man, machine, and god will intersect. And once they've met, nothing—nothing anywhere in the universe—will ever be the same.
