The Fall of Hyperion
★★★★★Shelved Aug 24, 2019
Really liked this. The author set up an incredibly sprawling and absurd set of plots, including a bunch of time travel nonsense. Then he brought it all together and stuck the landing. And all that without the narrative crutch of a "8 tales within a story" structure from the first book. I loved the characters, I loved the story, I was excited to read every page. A really great conclusion to the first book.
Goodreads readers give it 4.25★, from 158,166 ratings. I gave it 5★, +0.8, where I'm usually −0.9: I liked it more than most.
Readers call it Science Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Time Travel, Space, Horror, Speculative Fiction.
Won Locus Award 1991, British Science Fiction Association Award 1991, SF Chronicle Award 1991, Seiun Award 星雲賞 1996.
Also nominated for Hugo Award 1991, Nebula Award 1990.