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Just a warning for anyone who is thinking of falling for this meme, it is not a novel, its just a series of short stories that they tried to link together with a vague plot to try and turn it into a novel.

I thought I would sit down and read it but the flow is all wrong. You get 50 pages in and the the first short story just ends and then it has to start a new story from scratch. It is too jolting doing this over and over. You just cant get into a flow and read it.

I guess this will be one of those I read one chapter a night sort of books...

>> No.20620656

Why would we read genre fiction?

>> No.20620663

>>20620656
No one thinks you're smart because you got memed into reading philosophy by brain/lit/s

>> No.20620703
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>>20620649
No you just don't get it !!!! Its structure is actually a reference to Canterbury's Tales!!!!

>> No.20620733

>>20620703

ahh yes the literal who canterbury tales for the 1300's how could I have not known that this thing with a sticker on the front saying its a novel was actually based on this...

>> No.20620741

>genre fiction

>> No.20620887

>>20620649
It's a reimagination of the Canterbury Tales mate.

>> No.20620920

I knew that going in and Im enjoying it so far. the priest and the poets story were great, kassad'd was meh but it had its moments, and im part way through Sol Weintraub's story at the moment.

I dont mind the general idea of the format but i really wish they broke down each story into smaller chapters. beyond that I love the way the narrative unfolds. each story quite effectively builds up the mystery and the anticipation as the group get closer and closer to their destination and i find my interest growing and growing. i really do wish the were chapters were broken up to be shorter than the like 50- 70 pages they are at though

>> No.20621048

>>20620649
>Reading Genre fiction
You got what you deserved.

>> No.20621085

>>20621048

If you are interested in the future and sci-fi you dont have much choice... nobody has written anything noteworthy on the future that isnt fiction.

>> No.20621089

>>20621085
It’s called hard scifi and it’s written by people who study the subject of science.

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>>20621089

Here is the list of hard scifi films off hard sci-fis wikipedia.

Films
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)[37]
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)[38]
Silent Running (1972)[37]
Blade Runner (1982)[39]
Contact (1997)[37]
Gattaca (1997)[37]
Moon (2009)[37]
Europa Report (2013)[40]
Her (2013)[41]
Ex Machina (2014)[42]
The Martian (2015)[41]

I can see already that this is one of these words that has absolutely zero meaning and is a total meme term. I will now on and forever absolutely ignore that term as it is 100% meaningless.

>> No.20621933

>>20620649
Only liked the first story about the cruciform and maybe space jews story. I barely remember the others.

>> No.20621947

>>20621106
blade runner is detective noir with robots as a gimmick there is nothing scientific about it, and that god hard scifi is wack.

>> No.20622281

1. It's got nothing to do with the Canterbury Tales - the format is simply a literary device.
2. Each character gives away the author's (racist) views on stereotypes such as Jews, Muslims, Catholicism.
3. The overall story is clumsy and characters whose story would "give it all away" are conveniently removed in a reverse Deus Ex Machina.
4. It is incomplete, unless you read the far inferior sequel, Fall of Hyperion. Which, if it were all viewed as one volume, would finally disprove the "it's a retelling of the Canterbury Tales" once and for all.
5. It is twee AND pretentious.
6. The Shrike is not scary, at all. And could be avoided by simply not visiting the planet Hyperion.
7. Book Two is padded with repetitive description, because it was originally all one story and the publishers split it because of length, and book two was then not long enough.
Otherwise, it's a perfectly serviceable SF adventure. 3/5

>> No.20623418

>>20620649
Read this trying to be saved from boring SF. I wasn't. The going back in time thing is very interesting, but Tenet made it way better.

>> No.20623437

>>20620649
I've been done told all you lil niggas that the Priests story is the only thing worth reading out of the hundreds of pages of garbage. And that was the first fucking story.

>> No.20623442

>>20620656
Because some fiction books convey more truth than most "non-fiction"

>> No.20623459

Priest's tale=Scholar's tale>Soldier's tale>Poet's tale>Detective's tale>Consul's tale

>> No.20623650

>>20620663
While you are reading a fancier version of a children's bedtime story.

>> No.20624025

>>20620663
I don't care about what other people think, I read good literature not shlock.

>> No.20624051

>>20623437
This man speaks the truth. I was interested in hearing the tree pilot's story but then lo and behold he didn't even fucking tell it.