Superprijs The Fall of Hyperion – Dan Simmons

On the world called Hyperion the mysterious Time Tombs are opening and seven pilgrims risk their lives to petition the entity called the Shrike – a creature that may well control the fate of all mankind. The Hegemony of Man – a thousand thousand worlds linked by a network of farcaster portals and high-tech gateways – is under siege by Ousters, strange, half-human tribes mutated almost beyond recognition. The AIs – Artificial Intelligences whose synthetic wisdom created and maintains the nets that bind …