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To meet the great Hyperion, a group travels on a spaceship and tell their stories about their connection it. Vervian, Resident Scholar
Hyperion is a multifaceted story about a group of pilgrims journeying to what they think will be their deaths at the Time Tombs on the planet Hyperion. Each tells their story, in an attempt to create a picture of what might happen when the time tonbs, moving backward through time, open. At the same time, the Hegemony, governing hundreds of planets, is moving towards war with the Ousters (Humans who stay in space), and everyone is trying to find out more about the Technocore - AI's who run much of the Hegemony's political and communicative structures, and who have their own agenda... Paul W, Resident Scholar
Hyperion follows the story of 7 pilgrims, each trying to reach the mysterious time tombs for their own different reasons. While a war is about to break, they have to unravel the secrets of the Tombs... and of the monster that guards them, The Shrike. Omer, Resident Scholar

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Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 10%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 20%

Tone of book - cynical or dry-wit
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Explore/1st contact/ enviro story Yes
Plotlets: - exploring a wondrous planet or phenomena
Inner Struggle Yes
Plotlet: - search for identity/new understanding
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - An "It".
Has magical powers? Yes
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence

Setting
Spaceship setting: - futuristic human freighter/transport
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - humans in a futuristic society
Planet outside solar system? Yes
Takes place in spaceship? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd
Sex in book? Yes
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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