The final chapter of this magnificent saga begins with two momentous events: the death and resurrection of Pope Julius XV and the coming of age of the new messiah. Brilliant, provocative, unfailingly inventive, the odyssey began with the Hugo Award winning Hyperion, continued through the critically acclaimed The Fall of Hyperion and Endymion, and now ascends to its greatest heights yet…

In The Rise of Endymion, Dan Simmons brings to a triumphant conclusion one of the most celebrated, compelling, and dramatic science fiction sagas of our time. Endymion is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror an instant candidate for the field’s highest honors. Now, six years later, Simmons returns to this richly imagined world of technological achievement, excitement, wonder and fear. Hyperion went on to win the Hugo Award as Best Novel, and it and its companion volume, The Fall of Hyperion, took their rightful places in the science fiction pantheon of new classics. This staggering multifaceted tale of the far future heralded the conquest of the science fiction field by a man who had already won the World Fantasy Award for his first novel Song of Kali and had also published one of the most well received horror novels in the field, Carrion Comfort. Dan Simmons’s Hyperion was an immediate sensation on its first publication in 1989. Determined to exorcize this ancient plague, Mike, Duane, Dale, Harlen, and Kevin must wage a war of blood-against an arcane abomination who owns the night.The multiple award winning science fiction master returns to the universe that is his greatest triumph the world of Hyperion and The Fall ofHyperion with a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors. Strange and horrifying events begin to overtake everyday life, spreading terror through the once idyllic town.

From the depths of the Old Central School, a hulking fortress tinged with the mahogany scent of coffins, an invisible evil is rising. When a long-silent bell peals in the middle of the night, the townsfolk know it marks the end of their carefree days. But amid the sundrenched cornfields their loyalty will be pitilessly tested. From sunset bike rides to shaded hiding places in the woods, the boys' days are marked by all of the secrets and silences of an idyllic middle-childhood. It's the summer of 1960 and in the small town of Elm Haven, Illinois, five twelve-year-old boys are forging the powerful bonds that a lifetime of change will not break. This masterfully crafted horror classic, featuring a brand-new introduction by Dan Simmons, will bring you to the edge of your seat, hair standing on end and blood freezing in your veins

Summer of Night by Dan Simmons