The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the universe that is his greatest triumph–the world of *Hyperion* and *The Fall of Hyperion* –with a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors. Dan Simmons’s *Hyperion* was an immediate sensation on its first publication in 1989. This staggering multifaceted tale of the far future heralded the conquest of the science fiction field by a man who had already won the World Fantasy Award for his first novel ( *Song of Kali* ) and had also published one of the most well-received horror novels in the field, *Carrion Comfort*. *Hyperion* went on to win the Hugo Award as Best Novel, and it and its companion volume, *The Fall of Hyperion* , took their rightful places in the science fiction pantheon of new classics. Now, six years later, Simmons returns to this richly imagined world of technological achievement, excitement, wonder and fear. *Endymion* is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror–an instant candidate for the field’s highest honors.