Dan Simmons

After a prolonged decline, the Catholic Church receives a new lease of life when it discovers a way to resurrect the dead. Final volume in a multifaceted series on the far future.

It is the 29th century and the universe of the Human Hegemony is threatened by both invasion and secession. On the eve of disaster, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set out to find the Time Tombs on Hyperion, home to the Shrike, a lethal creature, part god and part killing machine, whose powers transcend the limits of time and space.

En 1847, dos barcos de la Armada brit⡮ica, el HMS Erebus y el HMS Terror, que navegaban bajo el mando de sir John Franklin, est⡮ atrapados en el hielo del ⁲tico. En su anhelada busca del paso del Noroeste, parecen haber fracasado. Sin poder hacer nada por continuar su marcha y completar su expedici⯮, rodeados del fr⩯ polar y de inminentes peligros, s⯬o pueden esperar a que llegue el deshielo que les permita escapar. Poco a poco, los d⩡s...

This anthology has assembled distinguished authors to write stories in honor of the genius of Jack Vance, stories using the bizarre and darkly beautiful far future setting of the Dying Earth, near the very end of Earth's lifespan, where mighty wizards duel with spells of dreadful potency under a waning and almost burnt-out red sun, and adventurers and cutpurses strive to hoodwink and out-trick each other in haunted forests full of demons and monsters...