The Fall of Hyperion

The Fall of Hyperion is the second science fiction novel by Dan Simmons in his Hyperion Cantos fictional universe. It was written in 1990 and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel that same year. It was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1991. In 45 chapters and an epilogue, The Fall of Hyperion records the fall of the Hegemony of Man. Like the previous novel Hyperion, it follows a frame structure of sorts, although it is far less explicit: instead of a number of pilgrims telling each other their tales a la The Canterbury Tales, the perspective is that of the reactivated cybrid of John Keats (the poet to whom the novel is dedicated "To John Keats, Whose Name Was Writ in Eternity"), who somehow dreams the adventures of the pilgrims via his twin. Meina Gladstone has committed to reinforcing the FORCE:Space picket at Hyperion and pushing the Ousters out. Parties all over the Hegemony break out on the day the armada is dispatched; it is at the party at... full article at wikipedia