Endymion

SYNOPSIS

Endymion is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror - and the third book of one of the science fiction's greatest sagas, the Hyperion Cantos, introducing new characters who bear the fate of time itself in their hands.Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A.

Bettik, Raul and Aenea travel the river Tethys, pursued by Father Captain Federico de Soya, an influential warrior-priest and his troops. And the Shrike is far from gone. It will reappear on their journey, as Raul's quest raises as many questions as it provides answers.