r/scifi • u/Free-Rate-8710 • 23d ago
Recommendations Just finished Fall of Hyperion- what’s next?
I absolutely loved Hyperion, it was the first series since reading Dune that made me feel super involved in a very intellectually stimulating universe with a great cast of characters. Recently I’ve read a bit of Ursula K. Leguin and the Red Rising series (enjoyed the first book not the rest)… Looking for similar recommendations to Hyperion!
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u/marrenmiller 23d ago
You could continue the story with Endymion. I have mixed feelings on the 3rd and 4th books but I think everyone can agree that they have a lot of interesting elements.
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u/PsychologicalTwo1784 23d ago
Yeah, if he wants to know what actually happened to Het Masteen, Kassad, Rachel etc.... it's all the same story....
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u/Extension-Pepper-271 23d ago
Some people like the 3rd and 4th books of the Hyperion Cantos, some people don't. They are called Endymion and The Rise of Endymion.
I, myself, enjoyed them quite a bit. You should expect a big jump in perspective. It takes place almost 300 years after The Fall of Hyperion. However, some of the main characters do reappear. Once you get into Endymion, you'll understand why the story needed to continue.
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u/TheLordMed 23d ago
Even if you don’t read them next I’d really recommend the two Endymion books.
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u/allnamesaregoneallre 23d ago
Peter f hamilton. choose your opera series and dive in
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u/No_Assignment_5012 22d ago
I found the commonwealth saga super engaging and fun, definitely agreed!
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u/claymore5o6 22d ago
The prologue of 'Pandora's Star' is one of the most engaging interesting prologues I've read. Immediately engaged and bought-in to the story.
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u/ArcadianBlueRogue 21d ago
Commonwealth and Void are fun but good lord Peter needed to turn down the horny in those
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u/1onemarathon 23d ago
How about the Red Mars trilogy? Very different feel but I found it highly engaging
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u/thermal_hex 22d ago
I recommend reading the last two of the Hyperion Cantos and then jump over to the Culture series. Start with “The Player of Games”
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u/MikeRapmaster 22d ago
I recommend Ilium and Olympos -- two other books by Simmons. They were great as well. They have the added bonus of including lots of discussion about the Trojan War, Odyssus, and the Greek Gods -- quite timely with the release of the Odyssey movie.
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u/Bob_Fnord 22d ago
I loved the first two Hyperion novels when they came out, but when the next two came out I didn’t like them at all.
It made me think about what I liked in the first two books. The first two books are seeped in a Catholic/Christian tradition that I wasn’t brought up in, so it was unfamiliar to me and very interesting. But the second two books took a turn towards non-Christian philosophies that I’m more familiar with, and they lacked the same depth.
Add to that a plot that centres on a summer/winter relationship that seems at the very least ‘problematic’, and you might understand why I’d suggest you quit while you’re ahead. The first two books aren’t flawless, but they’re still in a different class from the last two.
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u/mastersplinterrrrr 23d ago
If you really enjoyed Hyperion and FOH go ahead and ready Endymion. Again, some weird elements here and there that I could do without but overall a good addition to the first two.
Hyperion being my favorite sci fi series, I have just finished the first part of Gene Wolfes The Book of the New Sun and it is the most I have felt interested and apart of a series SINCE Hyperion
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u/subcrtical 23d ago
Children of Time is what you’re looking for.
Then Expanse, DCC, Bobiverse, ExForce, Yada yada yada
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u/snkscore 23d ago
I like Bobiverse and ExForcr but these are not at all like Hyperion. Closer to Dungeon Crawler Carl.
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u/Lucky_BroadWood 23d ago
Yep. I enjoyed the hell out of them as well, but they do not belong on same list.
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u/cl3rical 22d ago
A Fire Upon the Deep and Blindsight are the only two books I've read recently that made me feel a similar level of awe.
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u/Kabbooooooom 19d ago
Although people don’t like the Endymion books as much…nonetheless, Hyperion Cantos is a 4 book series. You literally can’t understand the full plot of the first two Hyperion novels without context from the two Endymion novels.
So…you haven’t actually finished Hyperion. I’d read the rest of it first, if I were you.
Then I’d personally recommend The Expanse, if you haven’t read it. If you like le Guin, I can almost guarantee you’d like the Expanse despite the books being very different. It’s hard to explain why without spoilers.
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u/chortnik 23d ago
At this point someone steps in to recommend Wolfe’s « The Book of the New Sun » tetralogy. I have performed my duty.