{"id":49562,"date":"2023-07-17T13:43:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T20:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=49562"},"modified":"2024-05-28T13:54:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T20:54:57","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-hyperion-by-dan-simmons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/07\/17\/%f0%9f%93%9a-hyperion-by-dan-simmons\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; Hyperion by Dan Simmons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1205,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/3ab993ae-3728-4f7c-a107-78dbc26bf718&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1199,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/viewfromtheloft.typepad.com\\\/view_from_the_loft\\\/2006\\\/04\\\/dan_simmons_cal_1.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250913094146\\\/https:\\\/\\\/viewfromtheloft.typepad.com\\\/view_from_the_loft\\\/2006\\\/04\\\/dan_simmons_cal_1.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 07:50:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 11:11:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 14:58:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 02:24:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 02:24:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1200,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/file770.com\\\/dan-simmons-criticized-for-remarks-about-thunberg&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260301110513\\\/https:\\\/\\\/file770.com\\\/dan-simmons-criticized-for-remarks-about-thunberg\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 07:50:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 11:11:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 14:58:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 02:24:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 02:24:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:815,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Milkshake_Duck&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260226102750\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Milkshake_Duck&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 13:43:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 04:43:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 11:11:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:429},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 14:58:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 02:24:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 02:24:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1206,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/tags\\\/3cc38aca-0ab1-462e-8f6b-1cb87e27e2d0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>33\/2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/3ab993ae-3728-4f7c-a107-78dbc26bf718\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a> 1990 Hugo Best Novel<\/p>\n<p>Still as engrossing as when I first read it, many years ago. Far-future space opera on a huge scale, but presented through a series of vignettes shared by members of a band of pilgrims (if this sounds rather like Chaucer\u2019s <em>Canterbury Tales<\/em>, be glad you got a good education in classic literature) heading toward what seems to be an unpleasant fate for all of them\u2026and possibly billions more. Amusingly, while I knew that this was part of a series (originally two books, then four) because I have all of them on my shelf, I\u2019d forgotten that the next book is not so much a sequel as the second half of a single story. Good thing I can just head upstairs and grab the next book to keep going!<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: Given Simmons\u2019 descent into right-wing politics, including <a href=\"https:\/\/viewfromtheloft.typepad.com\/view_from_the_loft\/2006\/04\/dan_simmons_cal_1.html\">Islamophobia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/file770.com\/dan-simmons-criticized-for-remarks-about-thunberg\/\">publicly attacking Greta Thunburg<\/a>, he has earned a space on my \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milkshake_Duck\">milkshake duck<\/a>\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/tags\/3cc38aca-0ab1-462e-8f6b-1cb87e27e2d0\">virtual bookshelf<\/a>, collecting those authors whose work I discovered, enjoyed, and might still enjoy, before later realizing that they are what I consider to be rather horrible people.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ds_h-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Hyperion\" title=\"ds_h.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far-future space opera on a huge scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[2467,2012,3313,5747,5748],"class_list":["post-49562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-dan-simmons","tag-hugoaward","tag-hugobestnovel","tag-hyperion-cantos","tag-milkshake-duck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51244,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49562\/revisions\/51244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}