Who's the author of the series?

Dan Simmons. There's some outdated stuff in the book, like a war between the US and the USSR, but that kind of thing is in 2001, too, and that movie's still badass.

Bump.

Read this review of Hyperion: http://englishmajoradventures.blogspot.com/2011/03/book-review-hyperion-by-dan-simmons.html

Anything by Dan Simmons is good (and not all sci-fi, by any means) but Hyperion & it's three sequels are simply great pieces of literature.

Also good by this author, Carrion Comfort; The Terror, Ilium/Olympos & Drood. I love Dan Simmons, and consider the Hyperion Cantos to be worth every second of reading, every time I read it.

I've been meaning to read Simmons for some time.
As a bit of a philhellenist I feel like I should read Ilium & Olympos first, but this sounds intriguing. Can anyone recommend one or t'other?

>>360

No. Fuck that racist "Kali" book he wrote

>>372
I haven't read the book, just the Wikipedia entry. Was it the general depiction of the citizens of Calcutta, or something specific?

>>373

According to Dan Simmons all of us Indians are either evil or otherwise suspicious in some way. The whole book is plagued with complete innacuracies about Hinduism that even I know more about despite being a New York born Muslim. And to top it off it's as scary as Chris circa 2007.

>>374

yasmin remains the greatest troll on /cwc/. see you on tinychat.

>>378

But I never went on tinychat.