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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