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On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.

Primera y aclamada entrega de la tetralogía «Los cantos de Hyperion», una saga fundamental de la ciencia ficción moderna que fue galardonada con tres premios Locus y el Hugo de 1990 por el presente título. La publicación de la serie a lo largo de la década de 1990 coronó a Dan Simmons como un referente indiscutible del género, capaz de construir un mundo al estilo de los Cuentos de Canterbury, y al mismo tiempo hacer un claro homenaje a John Keats.

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. Onthe world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing - nothing anywhere in the universe - will ever be the same.

Here, 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.

Since their mother's death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane. One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a "research experiment" at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right for his family. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives.

La aventura épica de Hyperion alcanza su clímax cuando los peregrinos se reúnen ante las Tumbas del Tiempo y estas se abren para liberar al Alcaudón. Todos, incluidos los humanos de la Hegemonía, los enjambres Éxter, las inteligencias artificiales del TecnoNúcleo, los peregrinos del Alcaudón y el cíbrido que reproduce la personalidad de John Keats, se verán irremisiblemente envueltos en la compleja trama del tiempo, el poder, la guerra, la inteligencia, la religión y el amor.

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing - nothing anywhere in the universe - will ever be the same.

Keats commenced writing his epic poem, Hyperion, in 1818 and ceased working on it in the spring of 1819. He said that he gave the project up for having "too many Miltonic inversions." The unfinished poem, which ceases in the middle of the third canto, was published in 1820. The narrative is based on the Titanomachia, or War of the Titans, and describes the aftermath of their fall to the Olympian Gods.

Han pasado doscientos setenta y cuatro años desde la caída de Hyperion, y la Hegemonía se ha transformado en una teocracia regida por Pax, la organización cívico militar de la Iglesia católica. Gracias al cruciforme, la inmortalidad es efectiva y la nueva fe, universal. Pax solo teme la llegada de un nuevo mesías. Un joven pastor condenado por asesinato, Endymion, deberá muy a su pesar proteger, con el androide Bettik, a ese nuevo mesías: Aenea, hija de Keats, que regresa de las Tumbas del Tiempo de Hyperion.

Nico di Angelo is feeling antsy. It’s been almost three months since he and his boyfriend, Will Solace, returned to Camp Half-Blood from their journey to Tartarus, and there hasn’t been a demigod quest or a conflict with monsters in all that time. So, when Nico's half-sister, Hazel Levesque, asks him and Will to join her at Camp Jupiter on the West Coast, he shadow-jumps at the chance to get away and do something. In her Iris-message, Hazel had said that she needed the boys’ help with an “issue” with some “new guests.”

Cuando el papa Julio XIV muere y resucita, la Hegemonía se ha convertido ya en una teocracia regida por Pax, organización cívico militar de la Iglesia católica. Gracias al control del parásito cruciforme, la Iglesia ofrece inmortalidad y la nueva fe es universal. Pax solo teme la llegada de un mesías. Y ese mesías existe. Se trata de Aenea, hija del cíbrido John Keats, que se ha refugiado durante casi trescientos años en las Tumbas del Tiempo de Hyperion.

Ja, es gibt auch einen roten Sachfaden in Hölderlins "Hyperion", einen Blick auf den missglückten Versuch der Griechen, sich vom Joch der Türken zu befreien. Es gibt Anklänge an die griechische Klassik, Erinnerungen an athenische und spartanische Helden. Aber dominiert wird dieser Briefroman von epischer Wortgewalt, mit der Hölderlin Gefühle zu Worten formt. Das ist keinem Autor deutscher Zuge in dieser Tiefe weder vor, noch nach ihm wieder gelungen. Hölderlin berührt damit jeden, der nach Zugang zu seinen Gefühlen sucht.

Riley Oh wasn't born into her family. Instead, as she recently discovered, she tumbled down to the earth many years ago as the last fallen star. Riley Oh also wasn't born to be a witch. Like, at all—even her status as a divine celestial being comes with zilch in the magical powers department. And Riley Oh definitely wasn't born to be a leader. But now the entire magical community thinks she and her soul-twin, Dahl, are meant to lead the world into the Age of the Final Eclipse (or whatever it is that the Haetae keeps saying they're "destined" to do).

Fourteen-year-old Renata Santiago is the most powerful godborn of them all, a bruja with a unique combination of DNA. The Mexica blood from her dad's side gives her the ability to manipulate shadows. Her mom Pacific, a Maya goddess, gifted her a magical rope that controls time, and Ren recently used it to save a few gods from getting stuck forever in 1987. She brought them back to the present, but her BFF Ah Puch, the once fearsome god of death, darkness, and destruction, is now a teenager with no divine powers.

An original novella set in season three of The Orville—straight from the pen of Seth MacFarlane, creator of the beloved sci-fi TV show! When Captain Ed Mercer and the crew of the U.S.S. Orville come face-to-face with one of humanity's most vile ideologies, they must solve the moral conundrum of who to hold accountable for evil deeds real… and imagined. Occurring just after episode 308, this is the Orville like you've never seen it before.

Rick Riordan’s newest Percy Jackson adventure is full of hilarious set pieces, a diverse cast of gods and monsters, and many other delightful tricks and treats. Percy Jackson, now a high school senior, needs three recommendation letters from the Greek gods in order to get into New Rome University. He earned his first one by retrieving Ganymede’s chalice. Now the goddess Hecate has offered Percy another “opportunity”—all he has to do is pet sit her polecat, Gale, and mastiff, Hecuba, over Halloween week while she is away. Piece of cake, right?

Under the titan Hyperion's rule, the sun is burning even brighter than normal and scorching everything in northern Greece - including the villagers! The Olympians are forced to play a sizzling "game" of Dodge the Sunbursts as Hyperion hurls giant fireballs that could fry them to pieces! Armed with some clues, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades set out to figure out why in the world Hyperion has been making things so hot. They also need to rescue Hera, who is still missing. Battling the extreme heat, the boys are off on another epic adventure.

In dem einzigartigen Briefroman schildert Hölderlin den Weg des griechischen Jünglings Hyperion zur Zeit der griechischen Revolution Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts. Über sein Scheitern als Liebender, Freund und Tatmensch findet Hyperion zum Frieden und innerer Ruhe in seiner Aufgabe als eremitischer Dichter. In seiner Entwicklung im Bild einer ›exzentrischen Bahn‹ findet der griechische Jüngling von der Unmittelbarkeit des Kindes zur vermittelten Unmittelbarkeit des geistig tätigen Menschen im Gefühl unendlicher Teilnahme.

"Ein Undercover-Agent ist ein Schauspieler, der um sein Leben spielt." Felix Brosch, ehemaliger Elitesoldat und Geheimdienstagent, hat nach dem Unfalltod seines kleinen Sohnes den Halt verloren. Er führt ein zurückgezogenes Leben auf einer Berghütte in den Alpen. Bis eines Tages eine Bekannte vom BND bei ihm auftaucht. Eine neue rechte Terrororganisation treibt auf der ganzen Welt ihr Unwesen. Ihr Anführer verbirgt sich hinter dem Namen Hyperion - der Lichtbringer. BND und Mossad vermuten, dass er einen Mitstreiter hat: Broschs englischen Cousin Simon, den er seit seinen Teenagertagen nicht mehr gesehen hat.

Welche Bedingungen müssen erfüllt sein, um eine ideale Gesellschaft zu begründen bzw. auf welche Weise wird dieses Ziel erreicht? Hyperion ist überzeugt davon, dass dies nur über einen natürlichen Entwicklungsprozess geschehen kann, wohingegen sein Freund Alabanda glaubt, dass dieser Zustand nur durch Krieg herbeigeführt werden kann.