The Fall of Hyperion

Hyperion Cantos

Content Ratings

Moderate Romance

Several romantic relationships are developed from the first book, including a love story with genuine emotional depth; physical intimacy is implied rather than explicit.

Intense Themes

The novel explores the betrayal of humanity by its own created artificial intelligences, the cost of civilizational war on innocents, sacrifice, and the meaning of consciousness and identity in both human and artificial minds.

High Violence

Large-scale interstellar warfare, the Shrike's continued acts of graphic horror, and mass civilian casualties are depicted throughout; violence is intense and consequential.

Synopsis

Continuing directly from Hyperion, the second Cantos novel resolves the pilgrims' fates as interstellar war erupts and the true nature of the TechnoCoreâ€”the artificial intelligences secretly governing human civilizationâ€”is revealed. Told partly through the dreams of a John Keats cybrid, the novel is simultaneously a war epic, a philosophical meditation, and an emotionally crushing conclusion to the tales begun in the first book. Astonishing in scope and ambition.