![]() ![]() ![]() In theory, the story is about six pilgrims * traveling to meet a spooky entity called the Shrike so they can either get a wish or die horribly, but in practice, the book is taken up by the main characters’ tragic backstories or, in some cases, the tragic backstories of people they know. Although calling it a “novel” is a bit misleading, as the book’s structure makes it more akin to six novelettes in a trench coat. Perhaps the most famous of those novels is Hyperion, the first book in a space-opera quartet. But in ye olden days, he was famous for a series of weird, genre-bending novels that made readers say either “wow, that’s deep” or “the heck did I just read?” These days, Dan Simmons is mostly known as a hard-right Islamophobe * who thinks that moderately progressive social policies will destroy America and tries to keep himself relevant by scolding climate activists. ![]()
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