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| | Hyperion Cantos, the - Dan Simmons - Review - Shrike! Be scared... |
 | | The shrike is a marvellous machine, or perhaps a godlike mechanical beast, most simply described as being chrome and steel, and spikes and claws, whose unlucky victims he hangs on a metal tree of tormented souls to live forever in mortal agony (Dan Simmons does this beast justice; I don?t!) |
 | | The "players" are a father (with his daughter, a baby), a priest, a warrior, a treeship pilot, a poet, a woman with a computer/avatar in her head, and a freelancer/rogue - Quite a collection! |
 | | The majority of the first book (a good 85%) alternates between the tale of their journey from the treeship to the "Time-Tombs" (home of the Shrike) and the telling of each of the traveller's tales of how and why they cam e to be chosen to be part of the pilgrimage... |
| www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/hyperion-cantos-the-dan-simmons/287781 (923 words) |
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