The Fall of Hyperion

I think I've found my favourite Sci-Fi book series! This has everything. Great storytelling (you really can see author's love for poetry, even the title and one of the main protagonists is a bow to romantic period in literature), world changing events, the AI problem, alien not-alien races, time travel... I am amazed how well and smartly written everything here is. I've already bought the sequel ;) There is nothing really I can complain about. There were certain parts which I was a bit lost with, but as I was listening to this in an audiobook form, that can sometimes happen (want to read it now, but in some years). The ending was satisfying with a good part of the book ‘building up' to it (unlike many N. Stephenson's books were the ending happens out of nowhere with a sort of wtf), some questions were left unanswered, as it should be IMHO. Strong 5/5 in the Sci-Fi genre and my current favourite series to date.