Remember when I said Hyperion was the best sci-fi book I’ve ever read? Well, scratch that. Fall of Hyperion is the best sci-fi book I’ve ever read! The book continues the story of Hyperion while increasing the complexity by building on the foundation of the stories of the first book. Fall of Hyperion put forth some challenging ideas that I couldn’t stop thinking about once I’d put the book down.
So, Hyperion was a Hugo award winner, but Fall of Hyperion was only a Hugo award nominee. My first thought after completing Fall was “I’ve got to read whatever book BEAT this one!” which got me looking up a list of all the Hugo award winners (something I’d never done). I discovered a few interesting things while looking over the list: I’ve read only 7 of the 53 winners, the book that beat out Fall of Hyperion is Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, and 2 of the first 3 Uplift books are on the list.
Turns out Blue Mars is the 3rd of a trilogy of books (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) and both Green and Blue won Hugos. But before I start on that trilogy, I’m going to read Sundiver (the first of the Uplift books, recommended to me by Peter). I've already checked it out from the Ledding Library and it's as good as read as soon as I finish Pheonix.
I thought we said that we weren't going to speak publicly of our love. I'll never be able to trust you again!
Just remember that Sundiver is the weakest of the Uplift books. Startide Rising and The Uplift War are better, and I also quite liked the follow-up trilogy.
How weak is Sundiver? I can't even remember the plot.