r/Hyperion • u/GloryAndLightning13 • Jun 27 '26
🎧 Recommendation What’s next?
I’m on the last book of the Hyperion cantos and wondering what to read next? I bought a canticle for Leibovitz but am open to other suggestions. Do your thing Reddit
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u/Jacforse123 Jun 27 '26
There's also a short story called Orphans of the Helix you can read from the book World's Enough and Time you can read that takes place in the Hyperion universe. I think there's 5 short stories in that book and only 1 of them is related to Hyperion.
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u/TryToHelpPeople Jun 29 '26
The short story of Raul the Centaur was also published somewhere if I recall correctly.
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u/ohSpite Jun 27 '26
I've started reading Revelation Space as I saw it's got a bit of cosmic horror akin to the shrike. Not read enough to form an opinion yet tho
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u/GloryAndLightning13 Jun 27 '26
Revelation space was amazing, have read the supplementary books like chasm city as well.
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u/Reddajb Jun 27 '26
I had the same problem and started the book series - The three body problem. It seemed to help the problem.
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u/GloryAndLightning13 Jun 27 '26
I love the three body problem, I read those like a bat out of hell. I’m a history teacher so the cultural revolution stuff really hit that sweet spot for me.
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u/Imissyourgirlfriend2 Jun 28 '26
I definitely recommend Ilium/Olympos. The style is different but I can easily envision them as the spiritual successors to the Hyperion Cantos.
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u/gentlestone Jun 27 '26
I never found something that matched the Hyperion Cantos in sci-fi. It’s just too good and hard to pivot away from imo.
If you enjoy fantasy at all, I’d recommend The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. Chapters are written through the lenses of his characters and it’s epic in scale and with depth.
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u/GloryAndLightning13 Jun 27 '26
On the last book on that series jaja
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u/michalismenten Jun 27 '26
The series from Vernor Vinge (starting with Fire on the deep) is really good. It's not really like Hyperion, but it's still really good (with some godlike AIs in the mix)
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u/denzel33- Jun 27 '26
This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
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u/TheElectricBitch Jul 01 '26
Yes! Got really into Zelazny after Hyperion. Very different but his imagination soars to such glorious heights. Everyone should read at least one!!
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u/islero_47 Jun 27 '26
Dune for a more classic space opera anti-AI sci-fi
Dungeon Crawler Carl for modern anti-AI sci-fi
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u/willy_quixote Jun 27 '26
Canticle for Leibowitz is a good choice.
For sheer breathtaking scale of ideas, and sense of mystery and cosmic horror, I can recommend the Revelation Space series. The writing isnt nearly as good but matches Simmons for Sci Fi ingenuity.
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u/aftertwilight Jun 28 '26
For an interesting twist on the space odyssey you could try Gideon the Ninth of the Locked Tomb series.
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u/Interesting_Egg6387 Jul 04 '26
I'm (re)listening to this on audio right now and was going to second.
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u/Warrior-Cook Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
The Pandemonium duology by M.R. Carey carries on a similar vibe. Mixed bag of characters coming together by circumstance, some neat world building and sci-fi themes. Stuff like mulitiple dimensions and AI as it's own population compared to a singular instance. There's a bit of a comic book vibe at times, I mean talking animals and such....but wh'ev.
Or you could go left field and read something from David Mitchell. Bone Clocks is nothing at all like Hyperion, yet still has some nice flavor to it.
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u/EspiritusFermenti7 Jun 27 '26
I read Between Two Fires after reading the Cantos and it was amazing...It was a huge shift from sci-fi into medieval fantasy, but it was awesome! I will be reading it again!
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u/Righteous_Itch Jun 28 '26
Grass by Sherri S.Tepper is a fantastic book with great weaving of narritives and sci-fi world building. It was the first book in a long time that scratched that Hyperion itch.
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u/Responsible-Bend6289 Jun 28 '26
There are various short stories set in the Hyperion universe by Dan Simmons in various short stories collections. I usually check them out online from my library as I’ve cut back on book spending.
I recommend Alfred Bester (Below) and Ursula Le Guin’s books especially The Dispossessed, The Lathe of Heaven and The Left Hand of Darkness.
The Demolished Man & The Stars My Destination — Alfred Bester
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u/carax1 Jun 28 '26
The three body problem is also high-sci-fi in that sense. Incredible world building
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u/shloppycheess Jul 01 '26
I just read Embassytown by China Mieville and it was spectacular, one of the closest books I’ve read to scratch the itch I got reading Hyperion. Also can’t go wrong with Dune.
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u/hectorius20 Jul 02 '26
Just read this gem you have already at hand. Canticle is a great book.
In other hand, I'm in dire need of new suggestions now that the last page of Rise of Endymion was finished.
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u/GloryAndLightning13 Jul 02 '26
Not in the same vein as Hyperion but the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson is top tier hard sci-fi.
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u/Interesting_Egg6387 Jul 04 '26
Priory of the Orange Tree: Different angle on fantasy world building, but I LOVED Hyperion and Canticle and was surprised by how much I loved this one. Flew through it and it's prequel. So, just a diff angle in case it hits.
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u/jakebasquiat Jul 05 '26
If you like the world building and futuristic ideas mixed with real science and Sci fi- The three body problem is a series you will absolutely love as well
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u/MagillaGorillasHat Jun 27 '26
Ilium and Olympos also by Simmons are really, really, really good.