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The Rise of Endymion (v4.8)
Dan Simmons, 1997

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The final chapter of this magnificent saga begins with two momentous events: the death and
resurrection of Pope Julius XIV and the coming-of-age of the new messiah. Her name is Aenea and
she is the only person who can counter the pope and his plan to unleash the Pax Fleet, the
Church's military wing, on a final genocidal Crusade to gain total dominion over the universe. The
Church is allied with the infamous Also Core, which has offered immortality to humankind -- or at
least to those faithful who pledge total obedience to the Church -- but at what terrible price?
The Core has its own dark motives and secrets, and only Aenea knows what they are.
Aenea, too, has an ally. Her protector, Raul Endymion, onetime shepherd and convicted murderer,
finds her in exile undergoing a strange apprenticeship on Old Earth.
Here she has gained access to an information matrix created by the Others -- the same
mysterious Others who moved Old Earth to save it from the Core.
But who are these Others? What has Aenea learned from them? And why has Old Earth been turned
into a stage upon which cybrids from the past -- from John Keats to Frank Lloyd Wright -- repeat
historical dramas of human genius for purposes known only to the Others? The answers to these
questions must wait. Together with the android A. Bettik, Endymion and his beloved Aenea embark on
a final mission to find and comprehend the underlying fabric of the universe. The surprising
nature of this medium and Aenea's ability to instruct her growing army of disciples in its
discovery and use could provide the one weapon powerful enough to thwart their enemies while
liberating humanity. Meanwhile, the enigmatic Shrike -- monster, angel, killing machine -- has
followed them on their intergalactic sojourn and now stands ready to complete its own mission,
revealing at last the long-held secret of its origin and purpose.
In The Rise of Endymion, Dan Simmons masterfully weaves together the complex strands of this
extraordinary series. He answers all of the unsolved mysteries posed in the earlier volumes and
brings the story full circle to the planet Hyperion, where it all began. A work of unparalleled
power and vision, The Rise of Endymion is a masterpiece of the imagination by one of our most
gifted writers.


DAN SIMMONS, a full-time public school teacher until 1987, is one of the few writers who
consistently work across genres, producing novels described as science fiction, horror, fantasy,
and mainstream fiction, while winning major awards in all these fields. His first novel, Song of
Kali, won the World Fantasy Award; his first science fiction novel, Hyperion, won the Hugo Award.
His other novels and short fiction have been honored with numerous awards, including nine Locus
Awards, four Bram Stoker Awards, the French Prix Cosmos 2000, the British SF Association Award,
and the Theodore Sturgeon Award. In 1995, Wabash College presented Simmons with an honorary
doctorate in humane letters for his work in fiction and education. He lives in Colorado along the
Front Range of the Rockies.