Endymion (Hyperion Cantos 3)

Endymion is the third novel in the "Hyperion Cantos" tetralogy, a seminal 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 of the genre, capable of building a world in the style of The Canterbury Tales, and at the same time paying clear homage to John Keats.

Two hundred and seventy-four years have passed since the fall of Hyperion, and the Hegemony has been transformed into a theocracy ruled by Pax, the civic-military organization of the Catholic Church.

Thanks to the cruciform, immortality is effective and the new faith is universal. Pax only fears the arrival of a new messiah. A young pastor condemned for murder, Endymion, will, much to his regret, have to protect, with the android Bettik, this new messiah: Aenea, daughter of Keats, who returns from Hyperion's Time Tombs.

After answering some of the questions raised in Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion, Simmons once again offers us, with his characteristic skill and mastery, an astonishing speculative universe.

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 in the 21st century."
Peter F. Hamilton