As I'm going through...

[bluegargantua]

Hi,

So I'm about halfway through Hyperion by Dan Simmons.

It's really good. Lots of people have read it already. I'm late to the party because...well, I missed out for some reason and then I read Illium and had to grab some more of his stuff.

So the thing about Illium is that it's really a Sci-Fi version of The Illiad.

And the thing about Hyperion is that it's really a Sci-Fi version of The Canterbury Tales.

Which I think is pretty neat.

It also means I'll have to do the Sci-Fi version of Huckleberry Finn soon or he'll gobble it up. (though frankly, I liked Tom Sawyer better)

Just chit-chatting...
Tom

p.s. Also? Dreams in which you're stabbing people are really odd. Mainly because people appear to be made out of wood and don't really stab so well. But the $15 coin was kinda fun.

Comments

[sben.livejournal.com]

Shrike: Quite possibly. Simmons seems to have a thing for horror (q.v. Song of Kali), which was prominent in Hyperion, but not so much in Fall, Endymion, or Rise.

Canerbury Tales: It was standard reading in my high school's advanced senior English classes, which I didn't take because I took something lame like calculus instead. I kind of regret missing it, but not enough to actually read it today.

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