Dan Simmons - Hyperion Cantos - Ouster in hiding

Dan Simmons - Hyperion Cantos - Raul Endymion finds the ship

Dan Simmons - Hyperion Cantos - Farcasters

Dan Simmons - Hyperion Cantos - A salvo of lance fire from Mother Captain Stone

Dan Simmons - Hyperion Cantos - Governor General Theo Lane

Dan Simmons - Hyperion Cantos - Sol Weintraub

Dan Simmons - Hyperion Cantos - A. Bettik communing with Lions and Tigers and Bears

Dan Simmons - Hyperion Cantos - Father Captain Federico de Soya and the Raphael

Dan Simmons - Hyperion Cantos - Het Masteen and Erg

Het with an Erg trapped in a moebius cube, with the tree ship Yggdrasill way above.

Dan Simmons - Hyperion Cantos - Colonel Fedmahn Kassad

Dan Simmons - Hyperion Cantos - Rachel Weintraub

Dan Simmons - Hyperion Cantos - The Consul and the Ship

Dan Simmons - Endymion / Rise of Endymion - Radamanth Nemes and Shrike fighting

Dan Simmons - Endymion / Rise of Endymion - Rhadamanth Nemes and Shrike

Technocore cyborg Rhadamanth Nemes beginning to phase shift.

http://hyperioncantos.wikia.com/wiki/Rhadamanth_Nemes

Rhadamanth is so essential to the story as a bogey woman, as the Shrike allegiance becomes ambiguous Rhadamanth becomes the character to fear.

Phase shift violence.

Nemes blasted from orbit.

A Shrike, waiting.

http://hyperioncantos.wikia.com/wiki/Shrike

Dan Simmons - Hyperion - Brawne Lamia, Johnny and the Shrike

http://hyperioncantos.wikia.com/wiki/Brawne_Lamia

http://hyperioncantos.wikia.com/wiki/Shrike

Brawne and Johnny, the Keats cybrid. 

The Shrike timeshifting.

Tired, carrying water to the other pilgrims.

A few versions of Brawne shooting at the Shrike.

Dan Simmons - Hyperion - Martin Silenus at work on Heaven's Gate (p183-192)

http://hyperioncantos.wikia.com/wiki/Martin_Silenus

Dan Simmons - The Rise of Endymion

http://hyperioncantos.wikia.com

Dan Simmons - Endymion

http://hyperioncantos.wikia.com

Dan Simmons - Hyperion / The Fall of Hyperion

I recently finished reading the last in the series, The Rise of Endymion, and it is as a whole the most ambitious story I have experienced in any genre.

It has taken a long time to get through the four tomes, and I needed to repeat Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion before beginning the two Endymion books, set three hundred years or so after the Hyperion books.

I won't attempt analysis of the story, as this is better found elsewhere, but this is the most amazing tale, with an array of really nifty ideas and philosophy. It chases the cosmos much more than the vast majority of the big science fiction authors I have read.

http://hyperioncantos.wikia.com

Les Thugs - Suspended Time (For SB)

From the album - Still Hungry, Still Angry

For me, the greatest French band. Absolutely love them!

I heard this once on vinyl in 1990 at a friends and was reacquainted only very recently. All that time this tune would occasionally pop in my head!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX25Fnvb0dM