The Rise of Endymion
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Cover of first edition (hardcover)
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| Author | Dan Simmons |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Hyperion Cantos |
| Genre | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Bantam Books |
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1997 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 579 pp |
| Awards | Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1998) |
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| OCLC | 36316017 |
| 813/.54 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3569.I47292 R5 1997 |
| Preceded by | Endymion |
The Rise of Endymion is a 1997 science fiction novel by Dan Simmons. It is the fourth and final novel in his Hyperion Cantos fictional universe. The novel won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1998.
The Rise of Endymion begins after the end of Endymion with Raul Endymion still imprisoned and writing his memoirs of his time with Aenea. On the planet Pacem in Vatican City the pope, Lenar Hoyt dies. Having previously borne Father Paul Dure's cruciform Hoyt resurrects as Dure. Dure is killed by Cardinal Lourdusamy, who also kills all witnesses to Dure's resurrection, as he has done for the last several hundred years whenever Hoyt has died to keep Dure's shared existence a secret. Hoyt is then reborn, and when elected Pope again, takes a new Papal name: in this case, Urban XVI. Urban announces a new Crusade upon his conception as Pope, and with the development of the new "Archangel"-class starships, sends his fleets out to make war on the Ousters, still hiding along the edges of human-populated space. Father Captain de Soya, after near exile for failing, is recalled to captain one of the new ships. However, after attacking an Ouster breeding creche asteroid de Soya and several of his crew find the murder of children unconscionable and they rebel, absconding with the ship and putting the rest of the crew into suspended animation.
Raul Endymion and Aenea, still living on Earth (at Taliesin West) and learning architecture from the "Old Architect" (a cybrid Frank Lloyd Wright). Aenea, despite being barely in her teens quickly becomes a teacher to the other humans not only in leading the community but also about "the Void which Binds" and "the music of the spheres". The old architect dies when she is sixteen and Aenea tells Raul that he has to leave and travel via Farcaster portal along the River Tethys, but she will meet him at the end of his journey on the planet Tien Shan. Upon reaching the end of his perilous kayak trip (8 standard days), Raul finds the starship they had abandoned in the previous book. The ship informs Raul that the travel to Ti'en Shan will create a 5-year time debt (due to time dilation as the ship accelerates to and decelerates from the relativistic speed needed to launch its faster-than-light travel mode) so when he arrives Aenea will be 21.
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