Location from Hyperion by Dan Simmons
An Outback world of Flame Forests, Tesla trees, and a valley of Time Tombs moving backward through time — where pilgrims come to meet a god of blades and only one walks away.
Hyperion is one of nine labyrinthine worlds — planets containing tunnel structures of unknown origin. It sits on the edge of the Hegemony's WorldWeb, connected by a single military-controlled farcaster. Its ecology is alien and dangerous: Flame Forests that burn without consuming themselves, Tesla trees that arc electricity between trunks, Seas of Grass that stretch to the horizon. The Time Tombs are its defining feature — six structures in a remote valley that are moving backward through time, their anti-entropic fields expanding. The Shrike inhabits them. The Church of the Final Atonement sends pilgrims. The pilgrimage is the narrative engine of the first novel. After the Fall, Hyperion became a backwater. Three hundred years later, Martin Silenus still lived there, waiting for Aenea to emerge from the Sphinx.
Three continents: Equus (with Keats city), Aquila (with Port Romance), Ursus. The landscape is beautiful and hostile — Seas of Grass that hide predators, Flame Forests that burn perpetually, Tesla trees that discharge lightning between trunks. The Time Tombs shimmer with anti-entropic energy. The sky is different from the WorldWeb — rawer, wilder, the sky of a planet that humanity hasn't quite tamed.
Also known as: Hyperion