Hyperion Cantos
Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
It’s time to make it official: The Hyperion Cantos are my favorite series of books ever. I just finished the last part, Rise Of Endymion, which was absolutely brilliant. Just like the others:
- Hyperion
- The Fall of Hyperion
- Endymion
- Rise of Endymion
Here’s the current list of my favorite books (or series of books, if applicable), in no particular order because otherwise they’d all share the first place:
- the Ender Wiggin Saga (series), by Orson Scott Card
- the Hyperion Cantos (series), by Dan Simmons
- the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy of 5 books (series), by Douglas Adams
- the Foundation series (series), by Isaac Asimov
- The Dead Zone, by Stephen King
- Planet of Adventure, by Jack Vance
There are a couple more on my list, but these are the most important ones. And the Hyperion Cantos is on top. I finished the last two parts in about 4 days, averaging about 300 pages per day. It’s not often that I’m thrilled at the end of my workday just because I want to continue reading a book.
One of the downsides of having finished reading a series is the, how shall I describe it, sense of loss you get because there are no more books in the series. You’d wish they just kept going on and on. Hell, some series actually seem to do so.
So.. Now I’m left wondering what to read next. One thing’s for sure; it’s bound to be a let-down compared to Rise of Endymion.