I skipped school back in the day just so I could have time to read Hyperion. Thanks for turning your thoughtful analysis to this series and giving it the recognition it deserves.
@@BeczaBot lol - yeah. I made a big production of walking out of my house to catch the bus, snuck back in, and hid under my desk in my room until I heard everyone leave the house for the day. Then, I got down to some serious reading. 😀
You're one of the only vloggers I've ever seen do Hyperion. Back in the '90's someone left a beautiful hard cover 'Endymion' at my work so I took it home to read. I was instantly taken in to that universe and proceeded to read everything by or about Dan Simmons I could find; which wasn't as much back then. I of course had all my own visions of the Time Tombs, Labyrinths, Father Hoyt, Shrike Tree, etc. Not that your commentary and excellent production quality ruin any of that- it is in fact awesome to see all the visual interpretations artists have assigned to these many concepts. THANKS AND GREAT WORK!
I found this channel because of these Hyperion/Dune videos - books I read when I was younger and I am sorry to say I largely forgot about. These did me the favor of remembering them to me and Ive been enjoying the hell out of this content: Thank you and I am looking forward to more!
You got me into this amazing series with your Shrike video. Since then I've read both Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion so far, I'm extremely grateful you introduced me and many others to such a underappreciated set of works. I'm proud to say I'm a massive fan of the Hyperion Cantos now and hope you make more videos on this creative world setting.
Thank you. Can't wait for more on Hyperion. Dune, I understand inside and out. Hyperion however, is quite the mindfuck of a book. Can't wait to hear more from you. Love your channel dude. Don't ever sir...
It’s thanks to your videos that I’m diving into Hyperion for the first time ever. I’ve read Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Crichton, Lovecraft, and Bradbury just to name a few, so I was surprised that I’d never heard of the Hyperion Cantos until I watched your vids. Thank you for pointing me to a new science fiction fixation. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for introducing me to Hyperion! Your videos on dune are top notch and in my opinion you do the greatest work covering the song of Ice and fire series! More Hyperion please, top fan all the way from Ireland 👍
What a pleasure to hear reviews of a series I didn’t think too many people have read. The finale to the Hyperion series remains of my most satisfying and uplifting ends to any long series I’ve read. Thank you
Man the part where the girl gets lost inside the tomb is scary af!!! Wasn’t expecting that I was thrown off by it! Epic series and is the only reason why I am into sci-fi so much now, thanks to you of course! Cheers!
I've listened to the Hyperion Cantos series many times in audio book form. I can't get enough. Your video is a wonderfully concise description and is perfect for someone who wants to learn more about it. I really hope they go forward with making films based on these books.
@@wowmasta1305 No I haven't, never read it either. I've heard of it and seen it on various top SF books to read lists, but haven't gotten to it yet, but I purchased it just now from Google Books, so I'll start reading it tonight!
Nice to see this. I'm in the middle of re-reading this series right now. I'd like to hear your take on both the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson and also the Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown.
I wonder if that Evil Morty episode took inspiration from the Tree of Pain where he had all those Mortys chained up on the outside dome and repeatedly stabbed.
Whoa, when I finished all of Frank Herbert’s Dune books, I didn’t know what to read next and stumbled upon the Hyperion Cantos. Anything that came after Dune was going to be a bit of a letdown, but I was entertained, especially by the Endymion books. Can’t believe IOIAF is covering these! Am now on Iain M Banks’ Culture Series if you’re stuck for what to do next! 🤓
Ive read these books several times and since your recent shrike video I have begun again. It has really cleaned the taste of GOT TV from my mouth and I'm nearly finished with "Fall of Hyperion" for the hundredth time. Hahaha
This novel is one of the best in Science Fiction, but to me, Ilium and Olympus is the best of all time. I can't understand why they don't make a TV series. It can provide several long seasons without writing improvised crap. They have got all the amazing material just right there.
One thing in those first two books (the only ones I've read so far) that I wouldn't mind forgetting is the horribly vivid description of what tuberculosis does to a person. Oh man! :D
Since time travel was involved I thought that the Labyrinths were created by the AI as well. The Fall of Hyperion hints that the AI intends humans to seek shelter in such labyrinths while the AI Technocore unleashes their ultimate weapon to defend the Hegemony against an invasion fleet of 'Ousters'. The same book hints that the labyrinths, at least in one possible timeline became the graves of millions of humans and the invasion was nothing but an elaborate trick of the Technocore AI. Not only to destroy the humans who had outlived their usefulness but have them jump into this mousetrap at their own volition.
This is so beautiful. I love how you phrased it too. Just like a farmer planning an elaborate trap & the rats have no clue. The rats don’t notice they just get curious about the food that randomly appears…
Thank you and well done! These four novels are my lifetime favorites. I enjoyed your graphics and thoughts on the purposes of the Time Tombs. I do wish Dan Simmons would return to this universe. Last I heard, SyFy Channel is going to produce a Hyperion mini-series. News is non-existent unfortunately so I don't know if its going forward or not.
My favourite ever Science fiction novel. Simply Epic and awesome on every level. Complex and mind bending!! Would love to see a movie but it would be very expensive and very long like LOTR trilogy. A masterpiece of imagination!
do you believe as I do that the author utilized the unreliable narrator writing style in the first book? Looking back I noticed contradictions in the poets and the detectives stories in the first book compared to how events were described by point of view characters in later books.or am I reading too much into potential author mistakes?
oh been a while since I read that quadrilogy. Some of the content you really need to twist your mind around it to understand it, thanks for the explanations.
I was taken to believe that there was only one shriek and the fight the super soldier had with a "Army" of shriek's was just time manipulation. One shriek folding it's timeline back onto one nugget of time.
stumbling across your videos has led to me re-reading Dune and the Hyperion Cantos...wow..i miss it so much. thank you for bringing it back into the forefront of my mind. I just finished re-reading Hyperion moments ago and am teeming with excitement as i crack open Fall of Hyperion for the first time in 9 years. Thank you for doing these videos....so bloody good.
I usually like to go into books cold. But in hindsight, something like this would have been helpful. There was so much I didn't understand. (I loved it, but often was unclear on what was actually happening.)
I read sometime ago, like 15-20 years ago, Martin Scorsese wanted to make movies out of these books, or at least the 1st book. Not sure if he planned to direct and/or produce them.
In cinema I found 'Cloud Atlas' taking me to some of the same places and energies that Hyperion achieved. I tell folks you've gotta see that movie about 5 times to hit "critical mass" in comprehension, engagement, etc. I should re-read Hyperion for a 3rd time. One can't help but wonder at the prospect of that on film!
I listened to the full series (very smooth narration from Victor Bevine) whilst doing a data entry job many years ago. Turned incredibly dull work into something I actually looked forward to. Perfect sci-fi with a dash of fantasy and horror, from what I remember.
Bran the Broker same; excellent narration, kept me immersed throughout. Didn’t think it could be bettered but Peter Kenny does a fantastic job with Iain M Banks’ Culture Series and Scott Brick was also brilliant narrating Dune. Audiobooks narrators are unsung heroes who can make or break a good read/listen.
I remember the underground mazes from the book. The walls were built from human bones, or was the floors? . Billions of humans. A few characters in the books think the Time Tombs are a warning to help humans avoid some extinction event. I can remember a line from the books that said humans tried to flee from from death underground. Using the ancient tunnels for shelter.
This video is old but Man the cluster F+++ that is Hyperion. That's why time travel kind of sucks. I still liked both books but it was not a smooth journey.
After your shrike video I read hyperion and fall of hyperion. It was cool but not super exciting. The concepts explored were interesting but felt repetivive after a while. Would you recommend I read the other two books?
One of the greatest Science Fiction novels of all time, sorry it doesn't quite press your buttons. The first book Hyperion might not have been interesting to you depending on if you liked the stories or not. In Fall of Hyperion the story really blossomed out and IMO created an incredible yet dangerous future. The last two books were also wonderful and takes on an incredible journey after the events of the first two books. If you didn't care for the first two (everyone has a certain flavor of sci fi they like) you probably wont care for the second two either. To me, the quadrilogy is the best sci fi writing of any I've read. An amazing universe Dan Simmons created.
The shrike didn't broadcast pain to find Human Ultimate Intelligence. It wanted to find the Empathy part of The Human God, which fled from future to hide from the God of A.I, the ultimate Intelligence.
I just finished book one and two. SPOILERS!!! I think it's pretty clear that the labyrinths were to be used for the humans seeking shelter from the death wand and the Shrike was acting in accordance to a plan. The priest Hoyt? went through a portal and ended up in one of the labyrinths but it was infused with people. Dead I think. Also with the cruciforums. He sees the Shrike, it pretty much lets him see it as what could be or what already happened in the future and then there's the plan to use the death wand on the Ousters and hiding people in the laberynths. Yet also it was a trap.... Should I go on? Just thought maybe that would clarify some things. I could be wrong but it's what I remember and how I saw it when I read it.
I'm so stoked to see Hyperion still getting recognition. Thank you
I skipped school back in the day just so I could have time to read Hyperion. Thanks for turning your thoughtful analysis to this series and giving it the recognition it deserves.
Lol never thought I would ever come across someone who would skip school to read a book!
@@BeczaBot lol - yeah. I made a big production of walking out of my house to catch the bus, snuck back in, and hid under my desk in my room until I heard everyone leave the house for the day. Then, I got down to some serious reading. 😀
@@douggalent4858 i used to do this with stephen king books
Nerd
You're one of the only vloggers I've ever seen do Hyperion. Back in the '90's someone left a beautiful hard cover 'Endymion' at my work so I took it home to read. I was instantly taken in to that universe and proceeded to read everything by or about Dan Simmons I could find; which wasn't as much back then. I of course had all my own visions of the Time Tombs, Labyrinths, Father Hoyt, Shrike Tree, etc. Not that your commentary and excellent production quality ruin any of that- it is in fact awesome to see all the visual interpretations artists have assigned to these many concepts. THANKS AND GREAT WORK!
Thank you for covering this series. I read them many years ago and they have always stuck with me.
Really great work.
I found this channel because of these Hyperion/Dune videos - books I read when I was younger and I am sorry to say I largely forgot about. These did me the favor of remembering them to me and Ive been enjoying the hell out of this content: Thank you and I am looking forward to more!
Bro I’m loving this Hyperion content! This book is a mindfuck
'This book is a mindfuck' Try out Ilium and Olympos, also by Dan Simmons, if you haven't yet. Very captivating but completely insane concepts.
You got me into this amazing series with your Shrike video. Since then I've read both Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion so far, I'm extremely grateful you introduced me and many others to such a underappreciated set of works. I'm proud to say I'm a massive fan of the Hyperion Cantos now and hope you make more videos on this creative world setting.
Thank you. Can't wait for more on Hyperion. Dune, I understand inside and out. Hyperion however, is quite the mindfuck of a book. Can't wait to hear more from you. Love your channel dude. Don't ever sir...
Greatest SF book ever captivated me as a 13 years old teen !
Thank you for covering more on Hyperion. It is one of my favorite book series and it deserves a lot more love.
It’s thanks to your videos that I’m diving into Hyperion for the first time ever. I’ve read Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Crichton, Lovecraft, and Bradbury just to name a few, so I was surprised that I’d never heard of the Hyperion Cantos until I watched your vids. Thank you for pointing me to a new science fiction fixation. Keep up the good work!
Eagerly awaiting for when Quinn sends his "Introduction to the Hyperion Cantos" series video from the distant future.
Thank you for introducing me to Hyperion! Your videos on dune are top notch and in my opinion you do the greatest work covering the song of Ice and fire series! More Hyperion please, top fan all the way from Ireland 👍
What a pleasure to hear reviews of a series I didn’t think too many people have read. The finale to the Hyperion series remains of my most satisfying and uplifting ends to any long series I’ve read. Thank you
If I remember correctly, the Crystal Monolyth was the mausoleum of Kassad from his death in the future fighting the Shrike.
I thought it was the jade tomb but you may be right its been like 7 uears since i read it last
@@christophercombs7561 Jade tomb was housing a portal to gas giant planets according to the last chapter of The fall of Hyperion
Man the part where the girl gets lost inside the tomb is scary af!!! Wasn’t expecting that I was thrown off by it! Epic series and is the only reason why I am into sci-fi so much now, thanks to you of course!
Cheers!
Gosh I love this series! It has the most gut-wrenching, bittersweet ending ever! Please make more videos about the Cantos, please!
I've listened to the Hyperion Cantos series many times in audio book form. I can't get enough. Your video is a wonderfully concise description and is perfect for someone who wants to learn more about it. I really hope they go forward with making films based on these books.
Scy fy channel was supposed to produce a series but I've not heard anything about it in years,probably for the best.
Loved this series. It was one of the first sci-fi series that dealt with time dilation.
Always felt I understood but a fraction of what Hyperion was typing to say, thanks
Try Ilium-Olympos by the same author, insane stuff!
Man, you are makin this real hard for me. I just can't say, which I like more. Your Dune-content or the Hyperion-content. Thank you...
Hyperion and Dune are two of my favorite SF series. Love, love, love them! I wish Dan Simmons would revisit the Hyperion series
A man of culture
@@wowmasta1305 Why thank you good Sir. 😉 Another series I really like and would recommend is the Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds.
@@MarcAl79 Right back at you with Ender's Game (waaaaay better than the movie, I hope you didn't watch it and spoil the series for yourself).
@@wowmasta1305 No I haven't, never read it either. I've heard of it and seen it on various top SF books to read lists, but haven't gotten to it yet, but I purchased it just now from Google Books, so I'll start reading it tonight!
@@MarcAl79 this is probably the most wholesome conversation I've had on TH-cam
More Hyperion please, my favourite sci fi book series!
Thank you for the series on the Hyperion Cantos!
Nice to see this. I'm in the middle of re-reading this series right now. I'd like to hear your take on both the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson and also the Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown.
I wonder if that Evil Morty episode took inspiration from the Tree of Pain where he had all those Mortys chained up on the outside dome and repeatedly stabbed.
I thought so too!
I thought of that, too, though it had the opposite affect, acting as a shield.
And they used pretty much the same exact design on gedi prime in the recent dune film lol
Whoa, when I finished all of Frank Herbert’s Dune books, I didn’t know what to read next and stumbled upon the Hyperion Cantos. Anything that came after Dune was going to be a bit of a letdown, but I was entertained, especially by the Endymion books. Can’t believe IOIAF is covering these! Am now on Iain M Banks’ Culture Series if you’re stuck for what to do next! 🤓
Ive read these books several times and since your recent shrike video I have begun again. It has really cleaned the taste of GOT TV from my mouth and I'm nearly finished with "Fall of Hyperion" for the hundredth time. Hahaha
I hear ya!!!
I'm just finishing Hyperion a second time. Love this series!! Thanks IOIAF!!
Keep the Hyperion content coming in, it's awesome.
Amazing , top notch production with the usual upper tier analysis. Thank You !!
This novel is one of the best in Science Fiction, but to me, Ilium and Olympus is the best of all time. I can't understand why they don't make a TV series. It can provide several long seasons without writing improvised crap. They have got all the amazing material just right there.
Olympos had so many loose ends, Simmons really should write the part 3.
Another excellent video
Ive just started reading the first book in the series. . Mind bending stuff!!
Love the hyperion videos. I hope you can cover his other 2 part series: illium and olympos someday. Dan simmons is awesome
Those 2 books are fantastic!!
One thing in those first two books (the only ones I've read so far) that I wouldn't mind forgetting is the horribly vivid description of what tuberculosis does to a person. Oh man! :D
Since time travel was involved I thought that the Labyrinths were created by the AI as well. The Fall of Hyperion hints that the AI intends humans to seek shelter in such labyrinths while the AI Technocore unleashes their ultimate weapon to defend the Hegemony against an invasion fleet of 'Ousters'. The same book hints that the labyrinths, at least in one possible timeline became the graves of millions of humans and the invasion was nothing but an elaborate trick of the Technocore AI. Not only to destroy the humans who had outlived their usefulness but have them jump into this mousetrap at their own volition.
I'm surprised he didn't mention this aspect. It was a creepy revelation when I came across that being mentioned in the book.
This is so beautiful. I love how you phrased it too. Just like a farmer planning an elaborate trap & the rats have no clue. The rats don’t notice they just get curious about the food that randomly appears…
Thank you and well done! These four novels are my lifetime favorites. I enjoyed your graphics and thoughts on the purposes of the Time Tombs. I do wish Dan Simmons would return to this universe. Last I heard, SyFy Channel is going to produce a Hyperion mini-series. News is non-existent unfortunately so I don't know if its going forward or not.
Yeah, I’m trying to work my way thru these books. Thanks, it helps.
Awesome video, keep the Hyperion videos coming!
Oh excellent, a book series I've not read! I'm excited for all of these videos
Such fantastic works
Thank you for making the videos that you make much appreciated. You should dramatize Kassad's planetfall when I first read that it blew my mind.
Dude, your videos are so fucking good. nice voice. no blearing techno music in the background or other bullshit.
Please just let me say Your awesome bro and your beyond our beyond!!
My favourite ever Science fiction novel. Simply Epic and awesome on every level. Complex and mind bending!! Would love to see a movie but it would be very expensive and very long like LOTR trilogy. A masterpiece of imagination!
one of the best plots ever created
So i just discovered your channel and binged all your Hyperion vids, and thought your voice sounds like a mix of Runesmith and Barley Sociable
My favorite sci-fi series.
Thank you! More Hyperion Content please!
do you believe as I do that the author utilized the unreliable narrator writing style in the first book? Looking back I noticed contradictions in the poets and the detectives stories in the first book compared to how events were described by point of view characters in later books.or am I reading too much into potential author mistakes?
No, I definitely agree.
Thanks, helped me understand the books...
Dan Simmons is seriously underrated.
2:26 i thought my headphones battery needed charging for a sec there 😂
I hope to see more Hyperion vids in the future.
oh been a while since I read that quadrilogy. Some of the content you really need to twist your mind around it to understand it, thanks for the explanations.
I have this book!!! Been meaning to read it for ages, thanks for the reminder quinn :)
If you haven't read it yet, and for what it's worth, it's a great read but not for newbies to the genre. Simmons's Ilium was also an excellent read.
His final comment "...tied directly to the purpose of the Shrek.." Had no idea Simmons' universe included Shrek. Mind blown.
I was taken to believe that there was only one shriek and the fight the super soldier had with a "Army" of shriek's was just time manipulation. One shriek folding it's timeline back onto one nugget of time.
Please do more vids on Hyperion. I’m loving this shit!!!!
Good job and thanks for the quality and your effort.a question: is ilium and olympos somehow connected to the Hyperion books??
stumbling across your videos has led to me re-reading Dune and the Hyperion Cantos...wow..i miss it so much. thank you for bringing it back into the forefront of my mind. I just finished re-reading Hyperion moments ago and am teeming with excitement as i crack open Fall of Hyperion for the first time in 9 years. Thank you for doing these videos....so bloody good.
What’s the song used at the beginning?
I usually like to go into books cold. But in hindsight, something like this would have been helpful. There was so much I didn't understand. (I loved it, but often was unclear on what was actually happening.)
Awesome video
I read sometime ago, like 15-20 years ago, Martin Scorsese wanted to make movies out of these books, or at least the 1st book. Not sure if he planned to direct and/or produce them.
What happened to Obsidian Nights? Hope its still happening
My favorite book of all time.
You should record audio books my friend!
You should do audiobooks man
In cinema I found 'Cloud Atlas' taking me to some of the same places and energies that Hyperion achieved. I tell folks you've gotta see that movie about 5 times to hit "critical mass" in comprehension, engagement, etc. I should re-read Hyperion for a 3rd time. One can't help but wonder at the prospect of that on film!
Awesome!
Are you familiar with the Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny? It’s a really good series as well.
I listened to the full series (very smooth narration from Victor Bevine) whilst doing a data entry job many years ago. Turned incredibly dull work into something I actually looked forward to. Perfect sci-fi with a dash of fantasy and horror, from what I remember.
Bran the Broker same; excellent narration, kept me immersed throughout. Didn’t think it could be bettered but Peter Kenny does a fantastic job with Iain M Banks’ Culture Series and Scott Brick was also brilliant narrating Dune. Audiobooks narrators are unsung heroes who can make or break a good read/listen.
Thank you
what is the background music its so good
Fantastic series!
Your good dude
I remember the underground mazes from the book. The walls were built from human bones, or was the floors? . Billions of humans. A few characters in the books think the Time Tombs are a warning to help humans avoid some extinction event. I can remember a line from the books that said humans tried to flee from from death underground. Using the ancient tunnels for shelter.
The time tombs remind me of the structures on Illus in The Expanse.
Anyone else find the brief audio distortion, when he is discussing the Sphinx, to be interesting?
This video is old but Man the cluster F+++ that is Hyperion. That's why time travel kind of sucks. I still liked both books but it was not a smooth journey.
Iirc the jade tomb is kassads tomb and the thing that downloads his combat prowess into the shrike as the final reaper program
It was just getting good then it finished!
name of the song in this video?
For real, been wanting to know this
More Hyperion please
I would gladly pay to hear you read Dune!
that's why they call it unfilmable. But it'll be done one day!
I saw the Shrike yesterday at Denny's.
Have you ever done a video on the messiah ""Aenea"?
Like Dan Simmons, you certainly described them, but there is no explanation here...
After your shrike video I read hyperion and fall of hyperion. It was cool but not super exciting. The concepts explored were interesting but felt repetivive after a while. Would you recommend I read the other two books?
One of the greatest Science Fiction novels of all time, sorry it doesn't quite press your buttons. The first book Hyperion might not have been interesting to you depending on if you liked the stories or not. In Fall of Hyperion the story really blossomed out and IMO created an incredible yet dangerous future. The last two books were also wonderful and takes on an incredible journey after the events of the first two books. If you didn't care for the first two (everyone has a certain flavor of sci fi they like) you probably wont care for the second two either. To me, the quadrilogy is the best sci fi writing of any I've read. An amazing universe Dan Simmons created.
The shrike didn't broadcast pain to find Human Ultimate Intelligence. It wanted to find the Empathy part of The Human God, which fled from future to hide from the God of A.I, the ultimate Intelligence.
I just finished book one and two. SPOILERS!!! I think it's pretty clear that the labyrinths were to be used for the humans seeking shelter from the death wand and the Shrike was acting in accordance to a plan. The priest Hoyt? went through a portal and ended up in one of the labyrinths but it was infused with people. Dead I think. Also with the cruciforums. He sees the Shrike, it pretty much lets him see it as what could be or what already happened in the future and then there's the plan to use the death wand on the Ousters and hiding people in the laberynths. Yet also it was a trap.... Should I go on? Just thought maybe that would clarify some things. I could be wrong but it's what I remember and how I saw it when I read it.
Great content, not quite so great music
Woah.. Sounds like my type of Ish.
I. LOVE. HYPERION.
So hypothetically if one were to destroy the 6 statues would a paradox occur?
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Could you make an Ultimate Guide to Hyperion after you do Dune?
Hyperion chapter 4 might be the most tragic chapter I’ve ever read. Haven’t finished the book yet but i’d rather post here then Facebook.