Do not beat around the bush: the cycle of Hyperion, which is emerging in this first volume, is a major work of Science Fiction. The first pages, dense and sometimes willingly obscure, projected me the heart of a novel époustoufflant fresco with dimensions of a universe. The narration puts in place quickly, but in a dense fluid style, complete but not complex, plot the depth, extent, and construction have rarely been equaled (I felt this thrill of excitement to reading first two volumes of Dune). In turn, the stories of each of the seven pilgrims sent to Hyperion to restore the authority of the Hegemony will illuminate such a puzzle is gradually restoring this narrative non-standard, bringing military responses, mystical, artistic, human , historical (...), to questions raised by the plot. In short, I liked, I shivered, I devoured! Here is the first volume of an exciting cycle, captivating, (addictive?), Including the completeness, scope actually do a work apart, fully deserving its five stars!
