{"id":49624,"date":"2023-08-01T15:55:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T22:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=49624"},"modified":"2023-08-01T15:57:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T22:57:05","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-the-fall-of-hyperion-by-dan-simmons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/01\/%f0%9f%93%9a-the-fall-of-hyperion-by-dan-simmons\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>34\/2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/6ddc4ee4-e5ac-4732-8e76-22e1bb55ac4b\">&#x2b50;&#x2b50;&#x2b50;&#x2b50;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A good second half to the far-future grand-scale space opera of Hyperion, moving away from the Canterbury Tales-inspired pilgrim&#8217;s tales to spend more time with the rest of the universe as the story progresses. Definitely best seen as the second half to a singular work than as a sequel.<\/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 virtual bookshelf, 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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_9920-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding The Fall of Hyperion\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_9920-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_9920-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_9920-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_9920-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_9920-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definitely best seen as the second half to a singular work than as a sequel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[2467,5747,5748],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49624"}],"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=49624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}