The Hyperion Cantos
Item from Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Martin Silenus's epic poem that summons the Shrike with each completed canto — and Raul Endymion's narrative that completes it — the work of art that IS the narrative you're reading.
Also known as: The Cantos, Hyperion Cantos, The Poem
What They Know
- Martin Silenus's epic poem — each completed canto summons the Shrike and causes a death
- Modeled on Keats's unfinished 'Hyperion' and 'The Fall of Hyperion'
- Completed by Raul Endymion from a Schrodinger box prison cell
- Self-referential: the four novels ARE the Cantos, written by characters within them
- Metafictional structure: a story about the power of stories
Connections
- written_by — silenus
- completed_by — endymion
- summons — shrike
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