Will this be the greatest science fiction cinema of all time or will it be woke trash that shits on the source material?
As a book series it is far superior to Dune.
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I don’t think I’ve read another science fiction book that achieves the same level of skill and artistry
The first two books are amazing. Not sure Endymion was needed
why should I read it?
Because it's the best science fiction of all time.
It's well-written. That's about it. I stopped reading maybe halfway through the first one. It has a lot of great character work and cool descriptions of scenes, even the world-building, what little I saw of it, was great. Like the whole description of how war evolved to be almost completely performative, or how one of the characters was a military commander who - I think - lost his position because he fried the brains of a bunch of religious leaders with satellites just as they were about to start a genocidal rebellion, thus saving the day but also committing a terrible taboo. All of it sounded completely plausible and believable.
But it's written in these little character-focused sections, the backstories of all the characters that meet to go on this pilgrimage at the start of the book, and it jumps from one to the next as they tell the story to each other during the journey. I got through the story of the guy whose daughter had started aging backwards (complete with losing her memories, only remembering what she would've remembered at the point in time she'd regressed to), and I found it heart wrenching. But then it just ends without a conclusion, to focus on another guy's story. It's like a whole bunch of unconnected books in one book, presumably the narrative comes together at the end but I never made it there because I can't stand that shit.
Yes. Author did this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales
Filtered.
Leave it at that anon. I finished the 1st book genuinely thinking the author was pulling a massive frick you at we, the reader, for wanting a conclusion to the story at large when the "point" were the stories that led to this story.
Then I read the sequel, I preferred my interpretation of the series as a single book.
"In a while crocodile" made me tear up in the aging story.
It's unironically one of the best scifi novels ever. It would be impossible to adapt for the screen with less than 4 movies. The first two books in the series are absolutely fantastic. The second two books are okay.
No, no it won’t.
TESLA TREES
90% chance they frick it up. It would probably work better as an eight part series with an episode devoted to each pilgrim.
i bet they turn the time travel robot demon into a strong independent woman and there will be something about the cyrosasis dude being an old thinking racist or some shit that needs to be constantly corrected but everyone will be brudgingly tolerant because 'he's old and doesnt know better'.
the pope and antipope will probably be used as a trans alegory or maybe make the bad one be a man and the good one a woman...
The single dad will be strong single woman
But there is already a strong single woman, arguably the most important character.
That would be an accurate representation of Silenius, and there are plenty of female badasses like Radamanth Nemes (sp?) and Moneta and freaking Anæa, so it will be fine.
But there's already Meina Gladstone, Brawne Lamia and Moneta for the strong independent women.
One of the main characters is a israelite, this board gonna hate it
but the Shrike is already a black dude
Hyperion's a literal fricking planet you inbred moron. Also, the strongest character is already a woman (because gravity and shit)
Kent became a woman?
WHO THE FRICK IS KENT?!?!
D-do you think the Shrike is named Hyperion?
I don't know. I haven't read the book.
You think that's gonna stop hollyjews from cucking wypipo.
It will also have Hyperion raping a blond women.
>As a book series it is far superior to Dune.
Imagine saying something this embarrassing out loud.
And the adaptation won't be good, Hyperion is too complicated to adapt
You unironically have brain damage if you think Dune is better than Hyperion.
>Will this be the greatest science fiction cinema of all time or will it be woke trash that shits on the source material?
Just got a qrd on it. Got LOtR vibes...pass.
>As a book series it is far superior to Dune.
My man, Star Wars is far superior to Dune...and it sucks dick.
My favourite book series. I love the e-girl plotline in the later two books!
Things I want to see
>treeships
>Maui Covenant
>swimming in zero g in space
>the farcaster journey
>Ouster Clusters
DUH!!!! WOKE!!!! DUH, BOKE???1 WOKE!!!!!
IS THAT ALL YOU SHITPOSTING FRICKS CAN SAY???
I FEEL LIKE I'M IN A FRICKING ASYLUM FULL OF DEMENTIA-RIDDEN OLD PEOPLE THAT CAN DO NOTHING BUT REPEAT THE SAME FRICKING WORDS ON LOOP LIKE A FRICKING BROKEN RECORD!!!!!
Well written my ass. I can't tell you how many times I lost track during the robot detective story because half of all the words was basically just 'and then he punched the guy but missed so he swung around to punch again'. I'm sure that kind of action looks nice on film but it's a complete slog in written word.
It's been forever since I read it but it seems pretty straightforward to adapt as a miniseries, am I missing something
Yes. The prequel that takes place during the second holocaust
>Raul is 27
>Aenea is 11, turning 12
>wears the consol's old shirt for pajamas and nothing else
>spends intimate time with Raul in the ship together (seeing her shower, play games, tag, hide n seek, zero g wrestling, etc), naked swimming with her in zero g water sphere in space
>rides on the magic carpet while she holds his shoulders and speaks softly into Raul's ear
>Raul watches her by the campfire for hours while she slept
>feels a jolt of electricity whenever they touch
>shares body heat under a thermal blanket together in their underwear
>she performed CPR on Raul
>sometimes forgets she is still a child and remembers that she loves Raul romantically
>actually kissed Raul on the lips while he was asleep
Can it be adapted? I know people love talking about Hyperion but this sequel is still fun and I'd love to see it on the big screen!
>the end of the second book where literal God shows up and disables all faster-than-light and teleportation technology
gotta agree that's it's still better than Dune, though
Those were lions and tigers and bears, not God. Pay attention!
Who here /audiobookwithafullcast/
The lions and tigers and bears weren't even known about until Anæa went into Planck space
God didn't do that, the Ousters did.
"God'"s big move was hiding Original Earth.
You are aware that whenever you talk about adapted sci-fi and add on "woke" we understand that you both don't know SHIT about sci-fi and haven't read anything considered a classic or stable of the genre.
Fantasy and Sci-fi aren't the genre for people who enjoy talking politics over stories, that's always been miniature collecting.
Sorry to gatekeep, but stop pretending to enjoy something to actually shitpost about the thing you want to, that's what women do.
>Sci-fi aren't the genre for people who enjoy talking politics over stories,
lol
You want space operas anon. Sci-fi is celebrating truth, not politics. Moon Is A Harsh Mistress has both but is sci-fi not opera.
they could just make a movie about the cruciform chapter and it would be absolute horrorkino
the first time I tried to read Hyperion, I fricking loved the cruciform story so much that when it ended and the moved to the soldiers story I quit the entire book
I eventually came back and finished it and the sequel but the priest is still maybe the best backstory
For more book kino read his other series Illium and Olympos. Summer of Night is also great. And the TV series adaptation of The Terror was pretty great too.
who's gonna tell him ?
Anon, sorry to dissapoint you.
Hyperion will be a Black person
Somehow portrays women are most affected but also stronger than men.
>the fricking self-insert writer character LE CANTOS