Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time — Hyperion - A space epic with a classic literary twist

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Hyperion - A space epic with a classic literary twist

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Hyperion by Dan Simmons is one of the best sci fi books of all time, and won the Hugo and the Locus awards in 1990. We give it a 4.5 / 5. The book is a space epic in the form of Chaucer’s Canterbury tales. Hyperion is a colony world at the edge of Hegemony space, and home to some of the greatest mysteries of the…

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