Hyperion Cantos

Four novels that are really two, and the first one stops halfway through the story.

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Where to start with Hyperion Cantos

Publication order, which is also internal order. Two things to know before you start, and the first one is the reason people finish Hyperion furious.

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    Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion, as one thing Hyperion

    Hyperion is a Canterbury Tales frame that stops mid-journey with nothing resolved. Simmons has said the two were one novel split for publishing reasons. Do not start the first without the second to hand.

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    Endymion and The Rise of Endymion, if you want them Endymion

    Two hundred and seventy-four years later, and a genuine decision point rather than a continuation. A large number of readers stop after The Fall of Hyperion and are happy. The other camp says these two complete the theology and the Shrike's arc.

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    Orphans of the Helix Orphans of the Helix

    A novelette from 1999, collected in Worlds Enough and Time in 2002, and chronologically the end of everything. Most readers never find it.

Then what? Remembering Siri is already inside Hyperion and does not need reading twice.

A suggested way in, not an official one. The full list is below: tick anything off in either place.

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The Hyperion Duology

  • Hyperion 1989
  • The Fall of Hyperion 1991

The Endymion Duology

  • Endymion 1996
  • The Rise of Endymion 1998

Short Fiction

  • Orphans of the Helix 1999
  • Remembering Siri 1983

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