Kirkus Reviews QR Code ENDYMION by Dan Simmons   By Dan Simmons
Pub Date: Jan. 1st, 1996 ISBN: 0-553-10020-3 Publisher: Bantam
 Another episode in Simmons's vast and hypercomplicated far-
future saga (The Fall of Hyperion, 1990, etc.). Now, the
repressive Pax of the Church rules human space through its
possession of ``cruciforms,'' symbiotes that allow the dead to
be resurrected. On planet Hyperion, woodsman Raul Endymion is
snatched from death row by the thousand-year-old poet Martin
Silenus and given the task of protecting the child Aenea, who
will shortly emerge from the Time Tombs having time-traveled
from 264 years in the past; Aenea is destined to save humanity,
and Raul is her designated hero. Other matters on Silenus's list
of things for Raul and Aenea to do: find planet Earth, long
since mysteriously vanished; defeat the TechnoCore, a hostile
and immensely powerful alliance of advanced artificial
intelligence; form a friendship with the weird space- dwelling
Ousters--oh, yes, and destroy the Pax a