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The Rise of Endymion

Dan Simmons

2010-08-05

9780575099975

Fiction

The time of reckoning has arrived.

As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age.

She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others.

Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples.

But first they must embark on a final spectacular mission to discover the underlying meaning of the universe itself.

They have been followed on their journey by the mysterious Shrike - monster, angel, killing machine - who is about to reveal the long-held secret of its origin and purpose.

And on the planet of Hyperion, where the story first began, the final revelation will be delivered - an apocalyptic message that unlocks the secrets of existence and the fate of humankind in the galaxy.