The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos 4)

With this wonderful and unique tour de force, Simmons concludes the unmatched speculative universe started with Hyperion.

Fourth and final novel in the incredible tetralogy «The Hyperion Cantos», a fundamental saga of modern science fiction that was awarded three Locus Awards and the 1990 Hugo Award.

The publication of the series throughout the 1990s crowned Dan Simmons as an undisputed benchmark in the genre, capable of constructing a world in the style of The Canterbury Tales, while also paying clear homage to John Keats.

When Pope Julius XIV dies and is resurrected, the Hegemony has already become a theocracy ruled by Pax, the civic-military organization of the Catholic Church.

Thanks to the control of the cruciform parasite, the Church offers immortality and the new faith is universal.

Pax only fears the arrival of a messiah. And that messiah exists. It is Aenea, daughter of the cybrid John Keats, who has taken refuge for almost three hundred years in the Time Tombs of Hyperion.

Together with Raul Endymion and the android A. Bettik, Aenea will have to flee from Pax with the ambiguous collaboration of the Shrike.

Reviews:
«Few readings leave the inevitable mark that this series achieves. Any work by Simmons deserves to be read, but this one, in addition, is never forgotten.»
Miquel Barceló

«"The Hyperion Cantos" sets the standard for science fiction for the 21st century.»
Peter F. Hamilton