The Fall of Hyperion (novel)

The Fall of Hyperion is the second book in Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos.

A paperback edition was re-issued in New York by Bantam in 1991 with ISBN 0553288202.

Simmons had originally submitted Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion as one volume. The publisher balked, and split it into two volumes. The result was one, Hyperion, which was suitably long, and the other, Fall of Hyperion, which was too short. Simmons expanded Fall of Hyperion by adding an additional thread to it, thereby making it roughly symmetrical with the first volume.

Many feel that the second book does not have the depth of the first. Regardless, when considered as a single volume, Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion do constitute one of the greater works of modern science fiction.