Hyperion Cantos: The Most Terrifying Creature In Science Fiction

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Warning! Some book spoilers! It has often been said that nature is cruel. All life on Earth is believed to have evolved from the same single-celled organism. Over the course of 3.5 Billion years those single cells, diversified, multiplied, became multiple celled organisms, developed organs, bones, and limbs. Life eventually filled every niche on the planet, each species learning to survive in its own way while constantly being tested by mother nature. But the cruelest fact about life has always been that in order to survive it must feed upon itself. Life consumes life. And there are many ways of doing it.
A butcherbird is a type of bird found mostly in African and Eurasian countries. It is a type of bird known as a Shrike. Once a Shrike captures its prey it impales the body upon sharp thorns or spikes. This allows the Shrike to bit by bit, tear the flesh from the creature it has captured, eating it in small chunks. These birds are also known to be territorial, they defended their claimed areas against rivals. The Idea of a Shrike has been used in fiction multiple times. But Dan Simmons’ Hyperion in my opinion makes the most interesting use of the attributes of the Shrike bird, within a fictional creature.
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@Trollificusv2 2 года назад

Isaac Arthur has a wonderful description of evolution, noting: "We know aliens will be tough, because you don't claw your way to the top of the billion-year-deep corpse pile of Darwinian evolution by being wimps."

@noahporteus8913 2 года назад

That is a fantastic quote, but Shrike isn’t an alien…

@Archonsx 2 года назад

not exactly, we are not the roughest creatures, yet we stand at the top because of our intelligence, creativity and the ability to evolve and adapt, life is complex and complicated

@AstronautaVerdadeiro_77 2 года назад

*laughs in porifera*

@EnzoDraws 2 года назад

@@Archonsxwell, outside of our biology, I would count "being able to negatively affect countless species on your planet by just existing daily"+"being able to drop nukes that would change the planet and possibly extinguish your own civilization" as being pretty tough traits for humanity.

@certaindeath7776 2 года назад

@@Archonsx we are pretty tough. f.e. we can hunt the fastest land species on earth just by beeing much more endurant, and thats just one trait

@DonVigaDeFierro 2 года назад

"People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it." - Fyodor Dostoevsky.

@neo-filthyfrank1347 2 года назад

"There is meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the Devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make a machine. And evil that can run itself for 1000 years, no need to tend to it."

@trellnebula 2 года назад

I feel like Orcas would if they could

@sld1776 2 года назад

Fyodor was wrong about this. Plenty of animals kill for pleasure.

@user-ib1dx4dh3n 2 года назад

@@sld1776 but humans are the very best of it

@jurekmc 2 года назад

@@user-ib1dx4dh3n yeah but only because we have the way to do it, the capacity, if they could the would

@tbone551 2 года назад

The Thing was the most terrifying in my opinion. Having to kill your friend because he might be already dead and just an alien in disguise. It’s psychologically horrible.

@irsagent147b4 Год назад

I stopped myself from making an among us joke. Just wanted to let you know

@therealmr.incredible3179 Год назад

@@irsagent147b4 Good.

@MrCaretucker Год назад

Very good

@tbone551 Год назад

@@irsagent147b4 thank you

@lienomzekon4763 Год назад

sus

@johns1625 Год назад

The Shrike moves backwards through time, so every person that is killed or captured by the Shrike was killed or captured the last time the Shrike actually encountered it. The Chapter from The Soldier where Kassad fights the shrike for the first time, turns out it's actually the very last time they fought from the perspective of the Shrike. So if you survive your first encounter with it, you survive all encounters. And this really messes with how you interpret it's choices throughout the later books too, because it's actually a protagonist at that point.

@svenlauke1190 11 месяцев назад

if the shrike moved backwards, wouldn't it kill/capture you the last time it met you, but the first time you met it?

@myboatforacar 11 месяцев назад

What if it doesn't know it's going backwards in time? "Hey, where am I? Oh shit, better start getting these bodies offa this tree" 😂

@lucasporto9285 11 месяцев назад

@@svenlauke1190 I think this is what he meant, right? last time the shrike encountered you, but the first time you did it

@lucasporto9285 11 месяцев назад

are the books worth it? I only read thefirst one because I read somewhere that the others were not as good

@svenlauke1190 11 месяцев назад

@@lucasporto9285 if that is what he meant he worded it strangely. basically means if you survive it the first time, you are always safe.

@Wumbo85 2 года назад

He’s just trying to fill his scream canisters to meet his daily quota.

@Ry-bo9hi 2 года назад

@theexcaliburone5933 2 года назад

He decided to become a stand up comedian soon after the end of the series

@dontkickmychick6076 2 года назад

He would be an entrepreneur then, seeing as the tree of pain isnt connected to monsters inc.'s system

@sobersplash6172 2 года назад

didn't he hear that laughter's what's on the market now? imagine the Shrike except he has a laughter quota but goes about this the most horrifying way possible, and is still terrifying

@akish302 2 года назад

He recently starred in “put that thing back where it came from or so help me”

@andruism7 2 года назад

"Earth was destroyed in an experiment gone wrong." Sounds about right.

@patrickcharzin3062 2 года назад

Psyke! The evil robots teleported earth away and then lied, and told everyone it was destroyed

@strider_hiryu850 2 года назад

@@patrickcharzin3062 could've been one of the evil robots' experiments. hey! guess i'll have to read the books too!

@darksteelmenace595 2 года назад

@@patrickcharzin3062 Nope they reconstructed earth, the original is destroyed

@patrickcharzin3062 2 года назад

@@darksteelmenace595 Nope, they told the humans they reconstructed it but they lied. Actually they teleported it

@darksteelmenace595 2 года назад

@@patrickcharzin3062 Did they reveal that in a later book?

@alessandroverganti9992 2 года назад

The shrike is literally the most fascinating and interesting "character", or narrative instrument, I've ever seen. It creates so many memorable moments throught the series, and leaving its appearance to the viewer's imagination enhances the terror. Everytime it appears, it's impossible to understand it's motives, and what it wants to do, or wether it will just kill or capture it's victims. And sprinkled in, sometimes, there are moments where it comunicates. Just incredible.

@Nony_Amous101 Год назад

Would you enumerate some of those moments? Or at least the most interesting ones you could think of? There's no place for me to purchase the books where I'm from.

@presidentuwu3206 Год назад

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@emilspasov4356 Год назад

He kinda got less fascinating and terrifying after nemes whooped his ass

@samraizshoaib585 Год назад

@@emilspasov4356 I have not read the books but from what I have glimpsed from the respevct threads people seem to say that the Shrike does not put much effort into their cvonfrontations outside of the times he destroys her.

@lawrencetalbot8346 8 месяцев назад

Wow way to restate what the narrator said in the video. Here is your cookie 🍪

@ColonelSanders17 2 года назад

I met Dan Simmons. I helped build his vacation home a few years ago up in the Colorado Rockies. He is a really nice dude. He has a sculpture of the Shrike in front of the house I helped build.

@joshcarlton9184 2 года назад

Thats delightful. Ive framed some homes for celebs; never had an author though. Imagine seeing that name on the blueprint. That shrike sculpture has got to be fucking amazing

@Kaptnkrnch Месяц назад

kind of ugly sculptor clee

@TiaanBurger 2 года назад

In Afrikaans the shrike bird is called a "laksman", literal meaning "executioner".

@FarTooFar 2 года назад

I can still picture my dad with his new pellet gun trying to execute a few butcher birds that were terrorising the other nesting birds in our garden. I guess this made my dad a Laksman laksman.

@Shadow90Cvijetin 2 года назад

@@FarTooFar you could say he was a Laksman marksman

@Malygosblues 2 года назад

That makes sense. The Latin genus name for shrikes is Lanius which means butcher. The Northern American shrike is Lanius excubitor meaning sentinel or watchman butcher

@mainmanbumfuzz8983 2 года назад

Which is funny, because that means "cod-man" in Norwegian. As in the fish.

@FarTooFar 2 года назад

@@mainmanbumfuzz8983 a definite fish out of water 😀

@Quonzer 2 года назад

This Shrike feels like something that the Dark Eldar would make.

@Revanchist2 2 года назад

As a pet

@ulose5909 2 года назад

Is that heresy I hear?

@Ao-de1nk 2 года назад

Should I get my bolter?

@Wataru917 2 года назад

Slaneesh would approve

@Ao-de1nk 2 года назад

@@Wataru917 heretic

@zonenknautsch 2 года назад

one of my favorite SciFi series. Simmons playing fast and loose with the concept of time itself is probably my favorite aspect of the cantos. that and the way this sets up the conclusions and explanations at the end is almost more terrifying than the shriek character itself not sure I'd call the shriek the most terrifying creature in SciFi, but he's definitely up there, and scores extra points for style and uniqueness.

@mattkennedy9308 2 года назад

I think the terror of the Shrike comes from the fact everybody knows it's nigh unstoppable but no one knows what it's goals are as it changes over the series. The sequence in Endymion where it protects Aenea from the Church Fleet by single handedly wiping out 1000's of ground forces then teleporting into space and butchering the ship crews was both an incredible sequence... and completely unexepected by anyone who read the first two books where it's an antagonistic force to the main cast and Humanity in general

@DH33.0 2 года назад

@@mattkennedy9308 Yeah vs Nemes was good too

@Trollificusv2 Год назад

Most terrifying? AM, from Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream". A god-like AI with absolute power over you, and it develops the singular motivation of torturing you. Forever. Horrible to the point of being depressing, when I first read it as a kid.

@zonenknautsch Год назад

@@Trollificusv2 completely agree. I am looking at a copy of this and Deathbird Stories, and I'm very tempted to pick up both and reread them after reading your comment.

@yasserbostan7156 Год назад

@@Trollificusv2 what a stupid concept. Why is it torturing you? It's just torture porn for some twat with too much time on his hands.

@codylakin288 2 года назад

Every single time the Shrike appeared in the story, it felt like Simmons went into overdrive with his epic writing, and I was flooded with chills and a cold, cold feeling of quieted awe. Every single time.

@Lawlietftw30 2 года назад

I remember when I first watched "Return of the Jedi" as a kid, and Jabba the Hut said that the Sarlacc would digest its victims over the course of a thousand years. I comforted myself from the horror by thinking that the victims would just die of starvation, instead. I grew up to find that the sarlacc supposedly keeps its victims alive somehow for that thousand years. Like, there's supposed to be something about the insides of its body that keeps people alive far longer than Republic Medical Science, just so that they can be digested for a millenium. Bruh.

@sitfish1113 2 года назад

They are barley alive after just a short period of time in cannon. It's not really keeping them alive but just preventing the body from dying.

@thetsarofall8666 2 года назад

Its almost like the body is absorbed into the sarlaac directly like a fat cell instead of being digested, the body slowly withering away giving up energy to the larger organism.

@zerglinglover2303 Год назад

Starving, while likely a slightly better fate than spending a thousand years being digested (Spending a millennium in a dark stomach being slowly dissolved by stomach acid), starvation is still one of the worst ways to die. There are three stages of starvation, and your much more likely to die to a disease, virus or something similar than to actual starvation. This is because starvation breaks down your body for sustenance- First fat, then more necessary things like muscles. It weakens your immune system alot- it's probably the reason why, in almost every country, the starvation deaths are low.

@ASlickNamedPimpback Год назад

That’s stupid

@zerglinglover2303 Год назад

@@ASlickNamedPimpback no u

@nahtesalinas1917 2 года назад

They'll NEVER makes these into movies. And that's a good thing. Leave them to the reader's imagination.

@jeffreysugar5709 2 года назад

One of the authors other books was made into a tv show

@singaporeghostclub 2 года назад

Xenomorphs IMO are the best creature designs to have ever appeared on film.

@leonardogamboa1901 2 года назад

Agreed

@tommyzDad 2 года назад

*The Terror* was adapted into a mini-series.

@jimtroeltsch5998 2 года назад

Yeah, if they make it into a film it probably would suck. If they do decide to do that they should just use it as an inspiration to do something different.

@danieltallon4316 Год назад

Can I just say that I love the audio quality to all of your videos. From the intro song to the speed and sound of your voice. I feel like a lot of content creators don’t work this hard to make their videos sound this good.

@AtomicPunk23 2 года назад

I loved this book series so much, but the story ended too abruptly and with too many unanswered questions in book 4. I was really bitter about that for years until I stumbled upon Dan Simmons' book 4.5 of the cantos: "Orphans of the helix". It gives a proper epilogue to the saga, giving at least some insight into what the universe finally becomes and all of the struggle was for.

@vnspns5358 28 дней назад

Oh thanks heaven that i have seen your comment! I just finished book 4 yesterday and i also felt the same way as you did! Glad that there’s book 4.5!

@MorroTreece 2 года назад

I'll have to read these books to understand why in book 3's cover he's just chilling on a raft with some of people like he's a murder monster version of Huckleberry Finn

@EmperorDoom 2 года назад

Rofl, for book 3 you're not too far off.

@Sssilk84 2 года назад

Hahaha i was wondering the same thing

@kentallard8852 2 года назад

Just read the original hyperion, which is really 1 book split in 2, don't bother with the sequels

@rogeriopenna9014 2 года назад

@@kentallard8852 the sequels are awesome and the seies has one of the most satisfying ends ever

@rcredmon 2 года назад

I agree with Rogèrio. They are very good. You just have to stick with them. There's a lot of esoteric type stuff but it is a great series.

@Nugnugnug 2 года назад

I'm pretty sure what the Shrike does is considered an intern-level requirement in Commorragh.

@mechanomics2649 2 года назад

WH40K is just absurdity for absurdity's sake.

@Nugnugnug 2 года назад

@@mechanomics2649 What's so bad about that? And also, HERESY!!!!!!!!!

@Didermann 2 года назад

@@Nugnugnug it means it's hard to take seriously. Almost juvenile tongue-in-cheek kinda horror.

@stnicgglemploy2794 2 года назад

@@Didermann uhhh maybe to someone who lacks cultural perspective. For the vast majority of human history people have been incredibly cruel and violent, even as cultural factors. Its ethnocentric to assume every culture values life or taboos violence, torture or causing suffering. Ritual violence is very real. This is not a value judgement, in fact, I stand in defense of these cultures.

@Didermann 2 года назад

@@stnicgglemploy2794 I get it. But that doesn't take away the fact that WH40K pushes these to ridiculous levels that it becomes a meme rather than horror. More of a galactic action-thriller, in this case.

@DomoKun371 Год назад

hey Quinn I'm just commenting to say I love your fascination and enthusiasm for the sci-fi genre and you are certainly instrumental in my interest in reading the Hyperion Cantos, Annihilation, and the Three Body Problem series. Thank you for your videos and keep fueling even the slightest interest in reading like you have done for me!

@RenneAtha 2 года назад

This video single-handedly got me to read Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion and they are my absolute favourite books of all time. Thank you so much!!!

@songbird7450 2 года назад

When I heard "Shrike", I immediately heard Sam'o'nella's voice in my head

@huskpl3yz358 2 года назад

Shit and spike

@aj1046 2 года назад

I miss him

@aceankan137 2 года назад

@@aj1046 he will be back towards the end of 2021. Well i hope

@minimaleffortname2758 2 года назад

He is the true scariest creature

@raymundoaustria5821 2 года назад

Me too lop

@zarquondam 2 года назад

6:49 - Funny how the artist for the book covers failed to notice that the Shrike is supposed to have four arms until the fourth cover.

@recursiveslacker7730 2 года назад

I just imagine him as being kinda like general grievous in that he can split his arms.

@chrismas9448 2 года назад

I’ve never read the books but I’m 99 percent sure that’s not the shrike

@charliecampbell6851 2 года назад

@@chrismas9448 that's the shrike in all of the covers. It can connect its arms together.

@laxtobuttgroyn1193 2 года назад

How did that get past the editors?

@NowioART Год назад

Probably not the fault of the artist due how book covers in publishing works.. It was probably a bored out of her mind art director of a publishing company going “oh great, another scifi with some alien cyber monster…. Lemme give that job to some newbie with a halfassed brief on what to paint.” We illustrators LOVE working on some cool covers… but if we get a commission from a publishing company… the art directors are the bottlenecks to coolness. For some reason they always have enough extra budget to commission extra covers for feminist or rainbow titles… but never enough budget to commission a proper fantasy or scifi cover (how many covers with a generic weapon/character in a hood or starship have you seen?)

@ooDriveoo 10 месяцев назад

Came across this video a while back after going over some of Lovecraft's work... I was intrigued by the video's claim. Fastforward into the future and I finally just finished watching it after the shrike bird intro, but only after finishing all of the cantos! Thanks for helping me jump into this incredible journey that was purely ignited by the title of the video and its intro! Cheers!

@hando87 2 года назад

Thank you for this. Hyperion was one of my favourite books and this reminded me of how amazing this universe is... And how far withdrawn I've now become from my own imagination simply by no longer making the time to sit down and read books. I fear for future generations as technology accelerates them into the great unknown.

@rottenmeat5934 2 года назад

As many better men have said : the opposite of love is not hate but indifference.

@reculture 2 года назад

Id say *fear* is opposite of the love, but then again I'm hardly one of those better men.

@bicheiroparadoxo4894 2 года назад

@@reculture love, hate and fear can all be seen as obsessions towards something or what's perceived of it, indifference truly is the opposite of it all. It denies interest to appreciate, destroy or avoid.

@wasteplace1705 2 года назад

Love and hate go hand in hand and fuel one another, apathy and indifference is a different beast entirely

@DraculaCronqvist 2 года назад

And it's still wrong. Indifference is the middle ground between love and hate. It is apathy.

@reculture 2 года назад

@@bicheiroparadoxo4894 that's a good perspective, i haven't thought of it that way

@HydraulicDesign 2 года назад

Or as they say in the 40K Universe, a Tuesday. Of course being so over-the-top horrible that you just kind of chuckle is sort of the point.... It loves people being somehow kept alive indefinitely while enduring the unspeakable.

@ChibiDarksai 2 года назад

As soon a Quinn mentioned shrikes I instantly thought of the Mega Arachnids of Planet Murder.

@Dimetropteryx 2 года назад

@@ChibiDarksai Kept jumping back and forth between the Haemonculi and the Screaming Gallery.

@AshtonCoolman 2 года назад

The Shrike would be considered a 'good guy' in the 40K universe. It would probably help the Imperium against chaos insurgencies and genestealers 😂

@toddrisinger3623 2 года назад

Yeah... most people think that 40k is only about war/battle/armies... But a lot of it is just straight horror stories

@maddlarkin 2 года назад

Exactly what I was thinking, can think of some far freakier things in 40k, Enslavers have to come pretty close to the top of the list, turning psykers into living fleshy warp gates, bringing through thousands of their kind and then mentally dominating not just population of any world they rock up on, but any armies sent against them... to me far freakier than a spikey Xenos with a torture fetish

@deepwaters7242 Год назад

Found your channel and I'm immediately impressed by your narration and clarity. Subscribed, good job.

@patrickbseattle 2 года назад

This vid popped up for me again. I had never read the Hyperion series and this vid insprired me to do it. So I say keep up the great work!

@dwhutto 2 года назад

The Shrike is definitely my favorite monster. I love leaving nods to the Hyperion Cantos in my table top games. Wonderful books.

@femmedracula6857 2 года назад

Same actually

@watcher171 2 года назад

I recommend Olympos and Illium by the same author…excellent read

@femmedracula6857 2 года назад

@@watcher171 It had some weird anti-Islam messaging in it, clearly informed by post-9/11 paranoia but otherwise it had a lot of good bits.

@gickygackers 2 года назад

Lol forreal??

@femmedracula6857 2 года назад

@@gickygackers Yeah, although different people would have different feelings about it. It wasn't nearly as weird as his visit by a time traveler short story he posted online, though.

@WillyDIreland 2 года назад

The best thing about the shrike is that no matter how an artist interprets how it looks, they nail it.

@cookiemumncher5808 Год назад

Oh you~

@etakarinae248 Год назад

BInge watching your videos since I found your channel yesterday, I love them! Thanks!

@russellcrye9296 2 года назад

Ur a genius RU-vidr, this one preview video that showed up randomly on recommended just made me watch the whole series u have posted. An algorithm master mind you are sir, great content

@Akovor_ 2 года назад

The Qu from All Tomorrows makes the shrike look like a children's character

@guts1258 2 года назад

How so? What makes them wosre?

@cernos7230 2 года назад

@@guts1258 The Qu is just high tech aliens

@Akovor_ 2 года назад

@@guts1258 instead of impaling people on a tree the Qu would turn entire generations of people into living waste/filtration systems, all while keeping them sentient and conscious, just for their amusement

@AgarthianTrapstar 2 года назад

@@guts1258 The Qu are masters of genetic manipulation. In the Book All Tomorrows they attack humanity in the future and lead to their downfall by basically experimenting with humanity to such a degree that the homo sapiens species is eliminated by being divided into multiple other abominable sub species.

@kane2875 2 года назад

The Qu fractured humanity into thousands of species just because of the religious views of the Qu. Humanity was seen not as people,but animals by them. The Colonials are an example of the Qu being worse than this. The Colonials were effectively living filters made from humans. They still had their eyes and minds. For 40 MILLION YEARS,they suffered. Eventually however,they evolved out of their misery. (Sorry for the long post)

@joshmnky 2 года назад

* is impaled on tree of eternal torment * hey, at least I'm out of the office

@PeppersnGlowworms 2 года назад

Nothing like working from home...

@laxtobuttgroyn1193 2 года назад

Dan Simmons is my favorite writer. Best science fictiion ever. Before starting Hyperion, get all four books. Trust me. Same goes for Olympus. His horror stories and private investigator and historical fiction are just as great. If Simmons published his grocery list I'd pay to read it.

@Trollificusv2 2 года назад

"Carrion Comfort" is my favorite "cabal of mind vampires" novel EVER. They had all lived so long and become so EVIL...kind of a flukey ending, wasn't a perfect novel by any means, but man I enjoyed his slow burn revelation of what they were dealing with.

@laxtobuttgroyn1193 2 года назад

@@Trollificusv2 Read that twice, twenty years apart. Both times I kept thinking what an awesome movie that could be. Simmons' violence is maybe the most brutal ever. In CC it's extreme and horrifying at the same time. Great eye candy on screen.

@Trollificusv2 2 года назад

@@laxtobuttgroyn1193 Yeah, he really conveyed that horrifying violence, and somehow did it without seeming to be deliberately laying it on (lookin' at you, Steven King). It really _could_ make a good movie, and the far-fetched ending would work better in a movie than a book, too. Dang, I need to re-read that...

@AlexRejba 9 месяцев назад

Actually finished reading the entire series for the third time a few days ago, and the algorithm suggests your video... Great work!

@sirgalah4d20 2 года назад

I heard these books read on an old cassette series years ago. I have asked so many people hoping I could figure out the name of the book series. You have brought me back to one of the greatest sci-fi experiences ever created.

@haillobster7154 2 года назад

Who else knew it would be the Shrike, without any familiarity with Hyperion, merely from the title? One never forgets even just a passing mention of the Shrike.

@DeltafangEX 2 года назад

Hyperion has been on my reading list for almost a decade, but yes, I have never forgotten when a favorite book reviewer described its horror all those years ago...

@RachelAnnPotter 2 года назад

@@DeltafangEX I listened to the series and I had to pause the last book sooooo many times during the last few hours. So. Much. Shit. Happens. UGH, it was so good!

@raymiller1753 Год назад

I just stumbled across your channel the other day. Great work here. I can't stop watching, lol.

@NiIex 2 года назад

Oh wow just found your other Hyperion video and on the off-chance you made more than one I looked and saw there's a whole playlist. My man, thanks you! Been watching quite a few of your Dune videos in the past with interest. You see beauty where I struggled with boredom and eventually quit in middle of 3rd book because few pages were missing and no close by library had a replacement (this was pre-online). Never had incentive to start over, lol. Looks like it wasn't meant to be for me, Frankly. Anyway can't wait to see your take on Hyperion and very much looking forward the be thrown back 23 years into the past when I read the best 4 books there ever was and ever will be.

@libertyprime3827 2 года назад

"Scariest" is definitely an exaggeration. The AI in I have no mouth but I must scream is scarier then this thing.

@z1u512 2 года назад

Or as others have pointed out, the qu from all tomorrows

@wasteplace1705 2 года назад

Hell even lovecraftian horrors beat this thing out. The shrike does come off as underwhelming compared to other similar fictional creatures

@someyetiwithinternetaccess1253 2 года назад

This video is really underwhelming tbh

@leonardhollsten8145 2 года назад

Sure it might not be the scariest, but its up there.

@kredl756 2 года назад

True nature of the shrike makes it scariest,

@CaptPatrick01 2 года назад

The Unhuggable, Four-Armed Vlad and his giant Agony Booth.

@BronzDano 2 года назад

Bro…this channel is simply outstanding. Bravo 👏🏽

@withatcontext Год назад

You inspired me to read the first full book in over a decade, “the three body problem” cixin liu… and I couldn’t of been more sucked in. 2 days of free time and it was over. The second book has a very slowly animated beginning and was super hard to get through that initial portion, but it’s picking up nicely. Thank you, Quinn.

@Kizarat 2 года назад

The Hyperion Cantos, along with the Foundation novels from Isaac Asimov literally changed my perception on life. Absolute gems of science fiction.

@moxxiiscarlett7141 2 года назад

I'm still more terrified of the things in the Lovecraft Mythos, I'm sorry man.

@danijellino1921 2 года назад

Lovecraft creatures are on both ends of the spectrum. Completely ridicouls and utterly terrifiyng.

@moxxiiscarlett7141 2 года назад

@@danijellino1921 and that's why they scare me more

@danijellino1921 2 года назад

@@moxxiiscarlett7141 Understanably so. Fear is one of the most powerful emotions and fear of the unkown is one of the oldest most powerful fears of humanity.

@bellisarius6968 2 года назад

yes but its not fair lol, in Sci Fi you must atleast look like you try to explain where something comes from. in fantasy/horror something just IS.

@danijellino1921 2 года назад

@@bellisarius6968 In Sci Fi you can always just go for the typical "Quantum Nano" mumbo jumbo thou.

@MonkeyJak Год назад

I read this so long ago. I completely forgot about it, until I got your video recommended to me. Great video!

@coffeebeardtv Год назад

Man your narration is incredible, you are so talented!

@ahobimo732 2 года назад

Honestly, given the hyperbolic title, I found this pretty underwhelming. So there's a mysterious creature that tortures people... this is not exactly bone-chilling terror.

@ubaidullah5388 2 года назад

Underwhelming indeed.

@levi2725 2 года назад

The creature is virtually immortal, can teleport through space *AND* time, has shaped the world since... Since as far as anyone can remember, and the tree keeps you awake with the constant feeling of being impaled. I'd say the Shrike is a pretty cool villain!

@IHateNumbersOnNames 2 года назад

Feels like an overhyped scp

@magosexploratoradeon6409 2 года назад

@@levi2725 Villain? Yes, but honestly it's not as terrifying as what the vid is hyping. But that's mainly because I've been into 40k.

@rotciv557 2 года назад

@@levi2725 "but can he fight Goku?"

@hucklebuck411 2 года назад

I recently finished The Fall of Hyperion. There are no words to truly describe this densely packed book with its many narratives. If I understood correctly, future, super-evolved humans were fighting a war with armies of Shrike and were behind sending back the time tombs, one of which would allow some past humans to move forward to their future time. Three godlike AIs were behind the Shrike war. One of the AIs wanted to eliminate human life and another of the AIs that felt empathy went back to the past to aid humanity behind the scenes. The other AIs sent back the Shrike with its tree of pain as bait to lure the empathic AI to reveal itself. It's very complicated. I guess I will have to read the Endymion books to see if it becomes clearer.

@paulconrad6220 2 года назад

Wasn't the embodiment of empathy highly advanced human intelligence (the UI)? Been years since I read it.

@alexisdumas84 2 года назад

@@paulconrad6220 You're correct iirc.

@VNitla 2 года назад

Are you of the Cruciform?

@bellisarius6968 2 года назад

@@paulconrad6220 true but you dont get that untill yeats and the 2nd half of the Cantos

@DH33.0 2 года назад

A lot of it is retconned in the last two books. Aenea says the truth in her talks.

@AmitSharma-nf5ed 2 года назад

I love your videos. I have read all 4 of the Hyperion novels. Please keep up your excellent work.

@C0VERF1RE 2 года назад

Not sure how your channel came up but I’ve seen several videos of yours lately. I have subscribed. Good stuff and all up my alley.

@shrimpsnail 2 года назад

The qu from: all tomorrows is also one of the scariest things I've seen on fiction

@bussing666 2 года назад

Very true

@nothintoreadhere6168 2 года назад

Reminder that there's a chance an alien species exactly like the qu exists

@thedawnchilloutking 2 года назад

What about AM from i have no mouth and I must scream

@z-beeblebrox 2 года назад

@@thedawnchilloutking You can pretty much draw a straight line of exponentially greater terror from the Shrike, to AM, to The Qu - human scale, planet scale, galactic scale

@kingcustard444 2 года назад

@@z-beeblebrox and then you have Cthulu / Lovecraftian on a cosmic scale

@TelcontarTargaryen 2 года назад

I love, LOVE, Hyperion Cantos, and Simmons.. it is very sadly overlooked by most SF fans since it is not that commercialized. Also, to everyone who likes their music a bit on a heavier side, I recommend danish band Manticora and their Hyperion album. That is actually how I found out about the books in the first place.

@wasfuerkeksigkeit 2 года назад

Yes I agree with you. Thanks for the album recommendation, will give it a listen.

@jimmux_v0 2 года назад

Another great heavy concept album based on Hyperion is Ummon, by SLIFT.

@wasfuerkeksigkeit 2 года назад

Cheers! I think I prefer Ummon. Great music.

@ChristmasLore 2 года назад

It was very, very famous and most certainly commercialized, it was just probably before your time, when they first were published. Simmons was a giant for a whole decade, if not two.

@FunkySaurb456 2 года назад

Yes, overlooked. Much like Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy.

@theneuralmancer 2 года назад

bump. I love your stuff! I stumbled on your channel after looking up Dune

@remyxedfern5008 Год назад

After watching this video a while back, I picked up Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion at a local bookstore and they’ve proved to be great books. Thanks!

@Phokey29 2 года назад

Personally I think the unknown aggressors in the expanse series are scarier. A sentient, fourth dimensional being that doesn't like being poked with the stick of human teleportation travel and is able to devour your atoms "out of existence" for pissing it off is pretty scary.

@jazerasor1455 Год назад

I'd rather be removed from existence than eternally tortured. Just me

@tovnomathieu 6 месяцев назад

well the scary part is not really being wiped out of existance, it's not knowing when or where it'll happen, you could have found the way to stop that but suddenly just vanish out of existance because you happened to be at the wrong place wrong time. I won't go into too much details because of spoilers but the dark gods are pretty scary too

@rainsoakedpuppy 2 года назад

But, that just sounds like christian hell with extra steps...

@timothytzovolos153 2 года назад

Oh la laa, someone’s going to get laid in college

@noizW 2 года назад

@@timothytzovolos153 😂

@zerobasedgod9291 2 года назад

@@timothytzovolos153 lmao a furry having an inking of a chance to touch a woman legally

@laxtobuttgroyn1193 2 года назад

In other words, Catholicism.

@BBkeeper 2 года назад

@@laxtobuttgroyn1193 Catholicism is actually a major plot point in this series.

@coconutvoid5963 2 года назад

I still feel like there’s scarier stuff in Sci-Fi than this, though this still has plenty of horror value to it.

@nicolasjosephs9910 2 года назад

Quinn ! Bruh ! I so associate your voice with Dune so thoroughly now that I wish you would do your own recording of the whole book… you have a great voice for narration, you capture tone really well

@nomenestomen8406 2 года назад

So glad you cover this book/series. I have them all, very very good. I did read them decades ago, but going to read them again soon, thanks for reminding me.

@aguspuig6615 2 года назад

SKULLS FOR THE SKULLTHRONE, BODIES FOR THR PAIN TREE!!

@sarnxero2628 2 года назад

DISAPPOINTING ENDING SEASONS FOR THE FANBASE!

@reculture 2 года назад

Blood for the Blood God?

@longwlenguyen4214 2 года назад

@@reculture Blood and Souls for my Lord Arioch!

@reculture 2 года назад

@@longwlenguyen4214 ahh, i see you are man of culture as well!

@davidwright8432 2 года назад

OK, fries and mayo with that?

@justinsullivan1285 2 года назад

Great job on the videos and narration quinn. I'm going start reading those books. I would love to see the shrike in live action movie or tv series.

@FunkyTomo 2 года назад

This sounds an excellent series. I did DL the ebooks and tried to get into it last year. I do read a lot but not much SF. I found it quite challenging, just in the first chapter they are so many characters and complex/names and descriptions. Lots of scientific/ tech terms I wasn't familiar with. I gave up on it , shame on me lol. I'm going to try again and it does really interest me . I shall pesevere with it !

@psyclone8614 2 года назад

*Chuckles in Dark Eldar*. All seriousness though, this makes me want to check out the series. Great vid! :)

@laxtobuttgroyn1193 2 года назад

DO IT. Get all four first. Trust me.

@dalaanibombina8822 Год назад

Never heard of this until you popped up in my recommended feed. Definitely going to subscribe because this is interesting.

@thedango6890 2 года назад

Wow, just wow. I randomly find this channel today. Just as i randomly found that book in my youth. Never got a chance to read it for i was already invested in a pierz anthony series. I used to have a bad habit of collecting or borrowing as many books as possible and reading them all as fast and as much as i could. I shall have to find a copy at the library and give it a read

@krakow95 2 года назад

I've enjoyed your Dune material immensely, and am excited to hear what you think about Hyperion!

@dalemsilas8425 2 года назад

I love scenes where col kassad is trying to fight the shrike. Who can actually do this movie justice?

@hugoleonardoamaral586 2 года назад

That's one terrifiying thing to imagine. Never Heard of this series before, thanks for this video. I'll surely check it out

@punknoodles0 8 месяцев назад

Hey Quinn. I don't know how far back you check comments, but it was watching this video that got me into reading. From knowing NOTHING about the series, I bought all 4 loved 3 of them (RoE, it's good)! Since then, my reading has expanded; I've read Dune before but I want to read it again as well as the Cantos. Thank you for doing what you do!

@ingavarh 2 года назад

This sounds like something someone should make an SCP of just as a tribute and the description is very well done in the book

@ThePurpleBookWyrm 2 года назад

Yay, a Hyperion Cantos video! I just finished the first two books so this is perfect timing. 😊

@erikiacopelli451 2 года назад

Never heard of these books but just from hearing this I'm gonna get them to read so tyvm

@codydee5680 Год назад

I just found your channel and I have no idea why it took so long! I watch Sci-Fi and Fantasy stuff all the time and book summaries and just everything I feel like would have led me to you! It’s weird! I hate the algorithm!!! But I am here to stay! I subbed and liked and now I’m commenting! And I’ll always like the videos I see of yours! I love this channel! Thank you🙃

@davewar9098 2 года назад

I read this series 20 years ago. I couldn't put the books down and reread them several times. Fantastic that you chose this story line. Hyperion will remain in my top ten stories. I enjoyed your depiction very much!

@soscoffey1 2 года назад

Will someone ever make a big budget Hyperion movie?

@urulai 2 года назад

If they do I hope the throw out the last two books.

@ilejovcevski79 2 года назад

Not likely to happen, not without butchering the core material.

@thekingsdale2899 2 года назад

Netflix, But Let's pray they don't because my goodness. 😔

@bigdreams5554 2 года назад

I heard/read a rumor that movie rights have been bought... But project hasn't gone anywhere

@ilejovcevski79 2 года назад

@@bigdreams5554 that did happen long time ago...

@earllan2992 Год назад

I literally dropped my jaw when I saw that painting of mine popped up in this video.... lol Love your stuffs btw. Wish to see more. :D

@WrinkleRelease 2 года назад

Finally, someone is talking about The Hyperion Cantos! I’ve been pitching this series to my friends for years.

@ilejovcevski79 2 года назад

Reading those descriptions of the Shrike, as well as all the fan-art, i can't but recall, how neither i, nor anyone i know of has so far managed to truly represent the entity in its full glory..... and terror...... Wolf's jaw with a false grin, crown of spikes, mercury over chrome, large armored torso, joints entwined with spikes, barb and razor wire, deep glowing ruby red eyes, set in a helmet skull like structure, a huge spike-blade protruding through its sternum, four strangely jointed arms that ended with blades instead of fingers......

@HArryvajonas 2 года назад

I agree, I have gone through hundreds of fan art for the Shrike and I haven't found one that struck me as ''right''. Where the art for Lovecraftian mythos I feel is much closer to the mark. This doesn't bode well whenever they finally bring this story to the screen. That being said, I thought the Zach Snyder version of the main bad gu from Justice League, his armor has the closest look to what I have always had in my mind.

@ilejovcevski79 2 года назад

@@HArryvajonas good point there, spikes and mercury over chrome. Yeah, his armor did remind somewhat of Shrikes description in the book.

@barrybend7189 2 года назад

The only way to capture it is if someone makes a 3d model with animations of it.

@HArryvajonas 2 года назад

@@ilejovcevski79 yes, especially the way the spikes and armor move and pop out. That type of animation to his armor I always imagined. The look is in the ball park as well. Maybe the artists that had a hand in the redesign used the Shrike as inspiration?

@jimmux_v0 2 года назад

I feel like it's never explicitly said, but different characters seem to see the Shrike a little differently so I imagined it being slightly amorphous. There are constants like the four arms, but spikes seem to move, flow, and change size at will. the mouth is just a mass of teeth that can likewise shift and grow as needed. Like the Steppenwolf armour crossed with a decepticon and a little T-1000.

@rafaelsantosx 2 года назад

Hey, since you like sci-fi like Dune and Foundation, have you read "The Expanse" novels, or watched the Syfy/Amazon series?

@rhyslewis4399 2 года назад

You just named my top 3 book series!! The dune movie will be amazing, the foundation series on apple tv will be underrated and a flop but the books will will always be the greatest sci-fi collections of our age :) awesome choice lol

@zachburskey8868 2 года назад

@@rhyslewis4399 The dune Movie will absolutely not be amazing. 3/4ths of the books are in the respective characters thoughts. This has always translated poorly in any movie because they need to dump exposition of thousands of words, in a few lines.

@matheussanthiago9685 2 года назад

@@zachburskey8868 that's precisely why I think no one will ever adapt Neuromancer, half of the book is just seemly synthetic drug filled rambling and the subjective perspective of Case hacking through the matrix it's just too unsettling to translate to film

@Bleilock1 2 года назад

@@rhyslewis4399 dune movie will be awful, literally like rest of the movies today

@rhyslewis4399 2 года назад

@@Bleilock1 seems like you're going to hate the thing before you even see it. Even it is the greatest movie you ever watched you'll say its shiit guaranteed haha

@reek459 8 месяцев назад

Not gone lie. I have zero to no clue what your even talking about right now. But im loving every second ❤️ Thank you for the literature.

@upgrade1015 Год назад

Another banger video ! Thank you

@SinitarG 2 года назад

Thanks to this video, I was able to introduce Hyperion books to myself. Keep doing great job.

@quintinjansevanvuuren9638 2 года назад

Wait, I know you...

@princetamrac1180 2 года назад

The more intelligent a being gets, the more cruel it becomes. AI is going to let us suffer in the most unimaginable way trapped in a simulation for eternity

@KLK01 2 года назад

I feel like in our lifetimes ai will reach a point that gov'ts around the world will discuss on how to stop it from going beyond the singularity.

@princetamrac1180 2 года назад

Most likely. But then it may already be to late

@JOhnDoe-nl4wj 2 года назад

@@KLK01 you meant to say "beyond the singularity"?

@thedawnchilloutking 2 года назад

AM from i have no mouth and I must scream

@ItsSupercat94 2 года назад

Nah

@pewpewwithtodd8077 Год назад

Your voice reminds me of Mathew Broderick. I love the narration and thoughtful explanation.

@timholland1764 2 года назад

Man, this sounds like a great series. I'll have to check it out.

@The_Reality_Filter 2 года назад

Would love to see you cover Iain M Banks and his Culture series.

@jhwheuer 2 года назад

Second that. My gamer tag is YouCallThisClean, questions?

@1789balzac 2 года назад

Yes I would like that...

@urulai 2 года назад

Firmly disagree, in my own experience I found the Culture series overrated.

@yoshikhurazi1769 2 года назад

@@urulai I also found the quality of the series inconsistent but I thought both Consider Phlebas and The Player of Games to be excellent.

@Naptosis 2 года назад

@@yoshikhurazi1769 It took a whole year for me to find out what on Earth a 'Phlebas' was. I kept rereading sections to see if I missed something, and didn't want to look it up online in case of spoilers... F U Banks!!

@Dyaus81 2 года назад

Sol's story is the saddest. As a dad, I think about it often.

@JakeSommer 2 года назад

I realized as I started watching this, that I had actually bought the first Hyperion book, years ago, yet had only ever read a few pages. I guess I'm going to have to actually read it now because it sounds amazing.

@johnbrouillet988 2 года назад

I just picked up the first Hyperion book today, having watched your series over the past couple weeks.....this is the most excited I've been to read a new book in a while! Thanks for highlighting some quality sci-fi!

@Denny_Boi 2 года назад

Fun fact about shrikes: They use the impaled food as warning signs for other shrikes coming into the territory of another shrike.

@habababa7873 2 года назад

Compared to something like the Qu from all tomorrow's this Hyperion thing is a whimp

@deathahoy8971 2 года назад

@leonardhollsten8145 2 года назад

Nah, the Shrike would murder the Qu. Easily. Within like, a few moments. Seriously, fucking read shit if your gonna talk shit. I can disagree that the Qu might be scarier, but the Shrike castly exceeds them in power.

@tongduy2017 2 года назад

@@leonardhollsten8145 Are you seriously “But can he beat Goku!?”ing right now?lol

@leonardhollsten8145 2 года назад

@@tongduy2017 To be fair, the first guy did it first.

@evantanuwidjaja8017 2 года назад

can he beat goku tho

@samkoortheinterista 2 года назад

After watching dune and i got hooked into ur channel ❤️❤️

@theyellowjesters 2 года назад

I've only read Hyperion so far. It was the first book in a while I could not put down, mostly because of the shrike. Everytime it was around I would get so much anxiety, and almost have a panic attack! But I want to know it's role in events, and what will happen when everyone finally meets it! I also had no idea about this bird!

@joshrakestraw3319 2 года назад

I'm absolutely in love with the design of the Shrike creature which this my first time seeing it because of this video. In all honesty, it actually reminds me alot of Megatron's design in the newer Transformers movies, or just that of ancient decepticons in general. Makes me wonder if the creators used the Shrike as a influence for their design? But for me personally, the most horrifying and disturbing science fiction creatures are probably necromorphs from Dead Space series or The Thing aliens. Some other honorable mentions is the creature from Zygote and the mutant bear from Anniliation that screams like a woman.