The Fall of Hyperion

The epic conclusion that derailed just a little bit. I still think those two book from the Hyperion cycle are very well written and great books. But the second book lost a bit of the magic that the first book transferred so very well.

In my opinion too much time was spent with the characters on Hyperion and too little with the rest of the universe.

Spoiler alert below:

While the idea of the AIs living in the Farecaster network are very good and actually the most realistic to be, I do not understand why there would be no immediate science done to re-invent them without AIs running them. If they work, why not make them work again?Also who is this "Fatline" base voice. It suddenly appears, says "no more fatline messages" and that is it?