Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died

Posted by throw0101a 11 hours ago

Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died(www.dignitymemorial.com)

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eatonphil 7 hours ago|

I really liked Children of the Night.

ortusdux 9 hours ago||

I wonder if the adaptation is still in the works?

https://deadline.com/2021/11/bradley-cooper-set-hyperion-at-...

genjipress 8 hours ago|

As a general rule, if an announcement about a movie project is over a year old and nothing else has been mentioned since, you can safely assume it's no longer a thing.

takko_the_boss 9 hours ago||

Rest In Peace Dan Simmons.

R.I.P.

howard941 10 hours ago||

Hyperion cries out for a good film adaptation.

samus 6 hours ago||

I rather hope it doesn't. It's not so much about action; it's subtle worldbuilding and a certain vibe that is easily distorted on screen. Also, it would destroy everybody's personal vision of the Shrike...

virgil_disgr4ce 9 hours ago||

...does it though? I mean we don't have to argue about personal desires and opinions. But Hyperion simply doesn't seem adaptable. You would lose everything that makes it great.

sandmn 9 hours ago||

Not sure about a film, but maybe TV series? I thought Game of Thrones was not adaptable but then HBO did it.

colkassad 7 hours ago|||

It would make a perfect mini-series. Each episode or two could cover each pilgrim's story, with a finale two-parter to wrap up Fall of Hyperion. A lot from Fall could be trimmed down.

Sebguer 9 hours ago||

The type of person the concept 'death of the author' was invented for, because whoo were some of his other books ideological garbage.

ceejayoz 9 hours ago|

9/11 kinda broke his brain, as I recall. (The book Flashback is… ooof. Hyperion includes a major Muslim character and it’s just a wild shift between the two.)

avazhi 9 hours ago||

Almost like he updated his view of the world, which isn't a bad thing.

Sebguer 9 hours ago|||

his updated view of the world involved global warming being a hoax and that obama (literally obama, not even a fake obama parallel) caused the end of the west.

gwern 5 hours ago|||

When you are that spectacularly wrong, it is. If you can't update correctly, you probably shouldn't.

lysace 9 hours ago||

'Hyperion' is a brilliant name of a book in 1989.

fr3772 8 hours ago||

Read Hyperion some years ago. I was totally trhrilled to read it because of the good reviews... But I was very fast disappointed about the overwhelming focus on boring religion. The interessting stuff like TechnoCore was so sparse that I never came into a flow reading the book. After 2/3 I just wanted to finish it fast.

gwern 5 hours ago|

That was probably a mistake. The religion is great (and I say that as a staunch materialist atheist) and _Fall of Hyperion_ had a lot more TechnoCore and filling out the background than _Hyperion_.

idontwantthis 10 hours ago||

Hyperion is the first sci-fi series I have ever described as beautiful. I just heard about and read all four in the past year.

FpUser 6 hours ago||

RIP. Absolutely loved his writings

dtj1123 9 hours ago|

I have to admit that I found the Hyperion Cantos to be a bit of a disappointment. There were some decent bits and pieces scattered throughout, but overall the story never seemed to resolve into something I could find engaging.

Can someone who liked it share why?

k__ 9 hours ago|

Pro: Interesting world building, Canterbury Tales in space, Huckleberry Finn in space, strong female characters.

Con: Pro Judaism and Christianity (albeit with much criticism to both) and anti Islam, awkward sex scenes, awkward Lolita-esque vibes in the latter books.

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