The Hyperion Cantos – Dan Simmons Free Audiobook

Written by Dan Simmons
Read by Various
Format: MP3
Unabridged

The Hyperion Cantos – Dan Simmons

Contents

Hyperion Cantos 01:
1989 – Hyperion (Read by Ray Foushee)
1989 – Hyperion (Read by Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, Jay Snyder & Victor Bevine)

Hyperion Cantos 02:
1990 – The Fall of Hyperion (Read by Victor Bevine)
1990 – The Fall of Hyperion (Read by Ray Foushee)

Hyperion Cantos 03:
1996 – Endymion (Read by Victor Bevine)
1996 – Endymion (Read by Ray Foushee)

Hyperion Cantos 04:
1997 – The Rise of Endymion (Read by Victor Bevine)
1997 – The Rise of Endymion (Read by John Polk)

Includes artwork and covers collection

Quotes

“The Consul thought of the Shrike, […] a creature which defied physical laws and which communicated only through death.”
— Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings. Example: the Chinese pictogram for ‘integrity’ is a two-part symbol of a man literally standing next to his word. So far, so good. But what does the Late English word ‘honesty’ mean? Or ‘Motherland’? Or ‘progress’? Or ‘democracy’? Or ‘beauty’?”
— Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.”
— Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“To be a true poet is to become God.
I tried to explain this to my friends on Heaven’s Gate. ‘Piss, shit,’ I said. ‘Asshole motherfucker, goddamn shit goddamn. Cunt. Pee-pee cunt. Goddamn!’
They shook their heads and smiled, and walked away. Great poets are rarely understood in their own day.”
— Dan Simmons, Hyperion