The Time Tombs

Location from Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Six structures moving backward through time — the Sphinx, the Jade Tomb, the Crystal Monolith, the Obelisk, the Shrike Palace, and the Cave Tombs — where the future sends its judgments to the past.

Also known as: Time Tombs, The Tombs

What They Know

• Six structures moving backward through time — constructed in the far future
• The six: Sphinx, Jade Tomb, Crystal Monolith, Obelisk, Shrike Palace, Cave Tombs
• Anti-entropic fields expand as they approach the present — time is visibly distorted
• The Consul activated them prematurely — triggering the Hyperion crisis
• Aenea emerged from the Sphinx 300 years after the Fall
• The Shrike Palace houses the Tree of Pain's victims in a different temporal frame

Connections

• inhabited_by — shrike
• activated_by — consul
• contains — tree_of_pain

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