![]() ![]() One of the avatars with a significant role is a recreation of the poet John Keats the author is clearly a fan. Two other groups with a major influence on events are the Ousters, a renegade human group who had departed long before to live in space away from the rest of humanity and are now in conflict with the Hegemony, and the TechnoCore, consisting of human-created artificial intelligences which had thrown off human control and now had a parallel existence, mostly virtual but occasionally via human avatars. The setting is a 29th century human commonwealth known as the Hegemony, which spreads over a couple of hundred worlds in one sector of the galaxy. In fact, it's an unusual book with an unconventional structure and an inconclusive ending (just as well I have its sequel available, or I'd be feeling frustrated). It isn't quite what I expected, which was a conventional, if superior, space opera. However, I eventually stiffened my sinews, gritted my teeth and got stuck in. It is the size of a substantial doorstop so it sat on my shelf for a few months while I found excuses to read shorter books. I kept reading about how good the two Hyperion books were so I eventually bought an omnibus edition including both Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion. ![]()
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