r/Hyperion

Please tell me your favorite books if you loved the Hyperion Cantos as much as I did!
I really fell in love with all four books, and while I definitely don’t want to reread them again within the next year, I’m desperately looking for something that can scratch that same itch and blow my mind in a similar way.
Doesn’t have to be sci-fi, but that would definitely be a plus, of course.
So: what are your favorite books that you’d recommend to someone who absolutely loved the Cantos?

Hello!

Just finished Endymion and am about 80 pages into Rise. Honestly, these books feel like they’re the author acknowledging how convoluted the stories of the first two got, and is using them to clarify.

I think this, because that was me lol.

It’s like Dan saw people say “That was a masterpiece!! It was so epic!! But what the hell did I just read???”, and then wrote two more books to iron out the confusing parts of the first two.

Anyone else kinda get that vibe?

Is time debt something Simmons cane up with for hyperion or it's some know in science? Where i could get to know more about it and study it?

I have read the first two books of the Hyperion Cantos and recently started with Endymiom. I've heard this book is about a love story about a guy and some messias figure so i was pretty shocked when I heard the protagonists are 27 and 12. I have just read the chapter when they first met and it felt kinda weird to me, like how much them touching each other is described or how Endymiom is described as trying to impress her. it probably wasn't even that weird, I just read it with their future lovestory in the back of my mind. i don't want to read two books full of grown ups flirting with little girls so i decided to google around and found out that many people consider their love story very weird and that dan simmons wrote other literature with very very very pedophile themes. I mean i probably should have guessed, these left leaning generation of '68 liberals always tried to normalize pedophilia for some reason lmao.

my question is basically how weird will things get? is it bad? is it bearable? or is it not bad at all and the people on the internet just overreacted?

I had a vivid dream about meeting a group of people who were repairing a vessel of some sort. I was speaking to one of the workers who told me they had solved long distance space travel by traveling sideways through dimensional realities and tethering or untethering from the physical.

I was watching a worker walk across some scaffolding which then disappeared and the worker fell. I asked the person what happened and he said the worker experienced a "hyperdimensional trans-locality" and the "For him, it just wasn't there anymore."

I do not remember encountering this term in the real world at all. I had to search it on Google when I woke up to try to understand it. I did read the Hyperion books years ago. Is it used in any real sense or did my mind make it up?