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  Hyperion Cantos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lenar Hoyt is a Roman Catholic priest, in a universe where Catholicism has shrunk to a shadow of its former self, claiming only a few thousand followers.
It is later revealed that Kassad himself was part of the animating spirit of the Shrike, a fact made possible by the passage of the Time Tombs backwards in time.
Few main characters from the first two books are present in the later two, and those that do appear are secondary characters (these include Martin Silenus, Colonel Kassad, and Het Masteen).
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 Fedmahn Kassad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Fedmahn Kassad es un carácter ficticio de los cantos de Hyperion de Dan Simmons.
Kassad era un coronel en la hegemonía de los militares de la FUERZA del hombre, de la pendiente palestina.
Kassad fue determinado para satisfacer y destruir ambos el Shrike, y su encargado, Moneta en Hyperion.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/fe/Fedmahn%20Kassad.htm   (161 words)

  
 Hyperion (book)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Its sequels are The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, and The Rise of Endymion.
The plot revolves around 7 characters (Father Lenar Hoyt, Colonel Fedmahn Kassad, Detective Brawne Lamia, Poet Martin Silenus, Scholar Sol Weintraub, a Consul, and Templar Het Masteen) all of whom are on a pilgrimage to the planet Hyperion to make a request of the Shrike.
The Shrike is a being made of metal who has the ability to manipulate time, and is notorious for murdering people in gruesome ways.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/hyperion__book_   (273 words)

  
 The Void and the Word: Dan Simmons' Complete Hyperion Cantos
This story is notable for its introduction of the Cruciform, a cross-shaped parasite which attaches itself to the human body and condemns its host to an endless cycle of sexless, increasingly mindless resurrections.
"The Soldier's Tale" recounts Colonel Fedmahn Kassad's lifelong erotic obsession with Moneta, a woman from the future who is connected in some mysterious way with the Shrike.
Fedmahn Kassad achieves a warrior's apotheosis in the world of the future.
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 Dan Simmons
A famous military commander, Fedmahn Kassad, seeking his true love, whom he met on Hyperion in the wake of an earlier war, and who seems tied to the Shrike somehow.
The priest's tale is a horror story, Kassad's is an a space operatic adventure, Lamia's a high-tech detective yarn, the Consul's a tragic love story, and so forth.
Who Kassad's beloved Moneta is and why she travels with the Shrike.
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 Hyperion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In lieu of Hoyt's wasted appearance, Kassad was brown, obviously fit, and whip-handle lean, with strands of muscle showing in shoulder, wrist, and throat.
Kassad's voice was soft but the Consul did not fail to notice that even the Colone!'s silences commanded attention.
   Colonel Kassad shook his head, whether in refusal to respond or to indicate that he was not a member of the Shrike Church, it was not clear.
www.fictionbook.ru /author/simmons_dan/hyperion/simmons_hyperion.html   (21370 words)

  
 Escape Velocity: Hyperion
Lenar Hoyt, a young Jesuit priest, is following in the footsteps of Father Paul Duré, whose discovery of a lost human tribe on Hyperion led to some surprising and ultimately horrifying revelations about the world.
Renowned FORCE officer Fedmahn Kassad is seeking his true love, whom he met on Hyperion in the wake of an earlier war, and who seems tied to the Shrike somehow.
The aging poet, Martin Silenus, who was part of an early wave of colonization of Hyperion and witness to the reign of Hyperion's vanished Sad King Billy, and who considers the Shrike to be his muse.
www.ping.be /~psdn0983/hyperionproject/hyperion_novels.html   (530 words)

  
 Programa Cultural Tierra Adentro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
En un pasaje incidental de la novela, Kassad tendrá que enfrentarse a unos terroristas islámicos que se apoderan de un planeta y pretenden consumar un genocidio.
Con un método expedito que envidiarían las actuales fuerzas de la otan, Kassad elimina a los rijosos chiitas y restablece el orden.
Sin embargo, el conflicto real de la novela de Simmons subsiste: la Hegemonía, una metáfora del Occidente globalizador de nuestro presente, elimina a los grupos individuales que se resisten a la uniformidad y a la imposición de valores hegemónicos.
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 Hyperion (book)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Its sequels are The Fall of Endymion and The Rise of Endymion.
The plot revolves around 7 characters (Father Hoyt Colonel Fedmahn Kassad Detective Brawne Lamia Martin Silenus Scholar Sol Weintraub a Consul Templar Het Masteen) all of whom are a pilgrimage to the planet Hyperion to a request of the Shrike.
The Shrike is a being made metal who has the ability to manipulate and is notorious for murdering people in ways.
www.freeglossary.com /Hyperion_%28book%29   (556 words)

  
 Hyperion (book)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Its sequels are TheFall of Hyperion, Endymion, and The Rise of Endymion.Hyperion won the Hugo Award in 1990
The plot revolves around 7 characters (Father Lenar Hoyt, Colonel Fedmahn Kassad, Detective Brawne Lamia, Poet Martin Silenus, Scholar Sol Weintraub, a Consul, and Templar Het Masteen) all of whom are on apilgrimage to the planet Hyperion to make a request of the Shrike.
The Shrike is abeing made of metal who has the ability to manipulate time, and is notorious for murdering people in gruesome ways.
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 Fedmahn Kassad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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Kassad was a corporal in the Hegemony of Man's FORCE military, of Palestinian descent.
He and six other pilgrims were chosen by the Core to be sent to Hyperion to encounter the Shrike during the opening of the Time Tombs.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/fedmahn_kassad   (153 words)

  
 [88] Fedmahn Kassad: Departures.@ Sat Jun 21 16:04:28 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
[88] Fedmahn Kassad: Departures.@ Sat Jun 21 16:04:28 2003
Kassad walks into the hangar with his helmet under his arm.
Kassad nods to the gigantic fl furred ronso in the back.
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 Who is your favorite professional creationist? - TheologyWeb Campus
I will try to be less defensive and quick to judge in the future.
Socrates: I note that Fedmahn Kassad had no answer to the latter.
As Fedmahn noted, AiG's not exactly an atheist website, unless there was a miraculous deconversion in their ministry recently.
www.theologyweb.com /forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=94783#post94783   (2862 words)

  
 Adherents.com - Religious Groups in Literature
"Fedmahn Kassad had grown up in a culture of poverty and sudden death.
As a member of the minority who still called themselves Palestinians, he and his family had lived in the slums of Tharsis, human testimony to the bitter legacy of the terminally dispossessed.
146: "For centuries after the death of Old Earth, Mars had been such a backwater planet that the WorldWeb had not established farcaster portals there--a desert planet of interest only to the orphans of New Palestine (the legendary Colonel Fedmahn Kassad had been born in the Palestinian relocation camps there, Mustafa was surprised to learn)...
www.adherents.com /lit/Na/Na_362.html   (3062 words)

  
 GYM DEBATE: Fedmahn Kassad v. Jerry Don Bauer, The 1999 paper by Eyre-Walker paper - TheologyWeb Campus
Jerry Don Bauer will be defending the affirmative and Fedmahn Kassad will be defending the negative.
Jerry: The Eyre-Walker study showed this entropy increasing at the rate of 1.6 deleterious mutations accumulating in the human genome each generation and our plight is to show this entropically.
Jerry: No he ["he" refers to Fedmahn Kassad] isn't right.
www.theologyweb.com /campus/showthread.php?s=857d361f3aded5ccef2ab33617299181&goto=newpost&t=55533   (12227 words)

  
 ARN Board: Question about possible banning or glitch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
ARN Board » Forums » Feedback and Suggestions » Question about possible banning or glitch
Fedmahn Kassad claims that he was banned from this site.
I find that curious as I thought his three responses were quite polite and actually addressed things related to the topic (imagine that?).
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 Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
_______ Tommy Lee Jones as Kassad, sorry to say, but that's a terrible idea.
Kassad is supposed to be a Palestinian, so they shoul get an actor who looks Middle-Eastern.
i'm not sure i like the idea of Raul Endymion and Aenea making the pilgrimage instead of Martin Silenus, Brawne Lamia, Fedmahn Kassad, etc. Endymion was the 1st book i ever read in the series, so i guess i have a special attachment to it...it's my favorite in the series.
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 StarDestroyer.Net BBS :: View topic - VS - The men who will not goddamn die...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He dies in a tangle of dead SHRIKES.
The Shrike is Kassad, at least a part of him.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me.
bbs.stardestroyer.net /viewtopic.php?t=58952   (1047 words)

  
 Emerald City - #25
Aenea grows a character, side-plots sprout like buds on a May tree, things get interesting.
There are worrisome bits: the guest appearances by Het Masteen, Fedmahn Kassad and Rachel Weintraub had me thinking at one point that the entire cast of Hyperion was about to walk back on stage.
And by the by, the greatest unsolved mystery of Hyperion, whatever happened to Masteen when the Shrike took him away, was explained.
www.emcit.com /emcit025.shtml   (14851 words)

  
 THE RISE OF ENDYMION Dan Simmons Bantam Spectra 1997 Pb709 pages ISBN
I must guide the tree of Pain during the time of Atonement." Guess where/when he was?
You've got it--with Aenea in book four, along with Colonel Fedmahn Kassad and a grown Rachel Weintraub.
Oh, you'll get all the answers in this book!
www.yetanotherbookreview.com /rise_of_endymion.htm   (963 words)

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