Hyperion Cantos: The Time Tombs Explained 

I skipped school back in the day just so I could have time to read Hyperion. Thanks for turning your thoughtful analysis to this series and giving it the recognition it deserves.

I'm so stoked to see Hyperion still getting recognition. Thank you

You're one of the only vloggers I've ever seen do Hyperion. Back in the '90's someone left a beautiful hard cover 'Endymion' at my work so I took it home to read. I was instantly taken in to that universe and proceeded to read everything by or about Dan Simmons I could find; which wasn't as much back then. I of course had all my own visions of the Time Tombs, Labyrinths, Father Hoyt, Shrike Tree, etc. Not that your commentary and excellent production quality ruin any of that- it is in fact awesome to see all the visual interpretations artists have assigned to these many concepts. THANKS AND GREAT WORK!

Bro I’m loving this Hyperion content! This book is a mindfuck

Eagerly awaiting for when Quinn sends his "Introduction to the Hyperion Cantos" series video from the distant future.

Thank you. Can't wait for more on Hyperion. Dune, I understand inside and out. Hyperion however, is quite the mindfuck of a book. Can't wait to hear more from you. Love your channel dude. Don't ever sir...

Always felt I understood but a fraction of what Hyperion was typing to say, thanks

Thank you for covering this series. I read them many years ago and they have always stuck with me. Really great work.

I found this channel because of these Hyperion/Dune videos - books I read when I was younger and I am sorry to say I largely forgot about. These did me the favor of remembering them to me and Ive been enjoying the hell out of this content: Thank you and I am looking forward to more!

If I remember correctly, the Crystal Monolyth was the mausoleum of Kassad from his death in the future fighting the Shrike.

Thank you for introducing me to Hyperion! Your videos on dune are top notch and in my opinion you do the greatest work covering the song of Ice and fire series! More Hyperion please, top fan all the way from Ireland 👍

It’s thanks to your videos that I’m diving into Hyperion for the first time ever. I’ve read Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Crichton, Lovecraft, and Bradbury just to name a few, so I was surprised that I’d never heard of the Hyperion Cantos until I watched your vids. Thank you for pointing me to a new science fiction fixation. Keep up the good work!

You got me into this amazing series with your Shrike video. Since then I've read both Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion so far, I'm extremely grateful you introduced me and many others to such a underappreciated set of works. I'm proud to say I'm a massive fan of the Hyperion Cantos now and hope you make more videos on this creative world setting.

I wonder if that Evil Morty episode took inspiration from the Tree of Pain where he had all those Mortys chained up on the outside dome and repeatedly stabbed.

Hyperion and Dune are two of my favorite SF series. Love, love, love them! I wish Dan Simmons would revisit the Hyperion series

Thank you for covering more on Hyperion. It is one of my favorite book series and it deserves a lot more love.

Gosh I love this series! It has the most gut-wrenching, bittersweet ending ever! Please make more videos about the Cantos, please!

I've listened to the Hyperion Cantos series many times in audio book form. I can't get enough. Your video is a wonderfully concise description and is perfect for someone who wants to learn more about it. I really hope they go forward with making films based on these books.

Loved this series. It was one of the first sci-fi series that dealt with time dilation.

Man the part where the girl gets lost inside the tomb is scary af!!! Wasn’t expecting that I was thrown off by it! Epic series and is the only reason why I am into sci-fi so much now, thanks to you of course! Cheers!

I listened to the full series (very smooth narration from Victor Bevine) whilst doing a data entry job many years ago. Turned incredibly dull work into something I actually looked forward to. Perfect sci-fi with a dash of fantasy and horror, from what I remember.

Whoa, when I finished all of Frank Herbert’s Dune books, I didn’t know what to read next and stumbled upon the Hyperion Cantos. Anything that came after Dune was going to be a bit of a letdown, but I was entertained, especially by the Endymion books. Can’t believe IOIAF is covering these! Am now on Iain M Banks’ Culture Series if you’re stuck for what to do next! 🤓

What a pleasure to hear reviews of a series I didn’t think too many people have read. The finale to the Hyperion series remains of my most satisfying and uplifting ends to any long series I’ve read. Thank you

This novel is one of the best in Science Fiction, but to me, Ilium and Olympus is the best of all time. I can't understand why they don't make a TV series. It can provide several long seasons without writing improvised crap. They have got all the amazing material just right there.

Since time travel was involved I thought that the Labyrinths were created by the AI as well. The Fall of Hyperion hints that the AI intends humans to seek shelter in such labyrinths while the AI Technocore unleashes their ultimate weapon to defend the Hegemony against an invasion fleet of 'Ousters'. The same book hints that the labyrinths, at least in one possible timeline became the graves of millions of humans and the invasion was nothing but an elaborate trick of the Technocore AI. Not only to destroy the humans who had outlived their usefulness but have them jump into this mousetrap at their own volition.

One thing in those first two books (the only ones I've read so far) that I wouldn't mind forgetting is the horribly vivid description of what tuberculosis does to a person. Oh man! :D

More Hyperion please, my favourite sci fi book series!

Man, you are makin this real hard for me. I just can't say, which I like more. Your Dune-content or the Hyperion-content. Thank you...

I'm just finishing Hyperion a second time. Love this series!! Thanks IOIAF!!

Ive read these books several times and since your recent shrike video I have begun again. It has really cleaned the taste of GOT TV from my mouth and I'm nearly finished with "Fall of Hyperion" for the hundredth time. Hahaha

Nice to see this. I'm in the middle of re-reading this series right now. I'd like to hear your take on both the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson and also the Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown.

Keep the Hyperion content coming in, it's awesome.

Thank you for the series on the Hyperion Cantos!

Yeah, I’m trying to work my way thru these books. Thanks, it helps.

Ive just started reading the first book in the series. . Mind bending stuff!!

Another excellent video

Love the hyperion videos. I hope you can cover his other 2 part series: illium and olympos someday. Dan simmons is awesome

Thanks, helped me understand the books...

Thank you and well done! These four novels are my lifetime favorites. I enjoyed your graphics and thoughts on the purposes of the Time Tombs. I do wish Dan Simmons would return to this universe. Last I heard, SyFy Channel is going to produce a Hyperion mini-series. News is non-existent unfortunately so I don't know if its going forward or not.

Such fantastic works

Amazing , top notch production with the usual upper tier analysis. Thank You !!

do you believe as I do that the author utilized the unreliable narrator writing style in the first book? Looking back I noticed contradictions in the poets and the detectives stories in the first book compared to how events were described by point of view characters in later books.or am I reading too much into potential author mistakes?

Please just let me say Your awesome bro and your beyond our beyond!!

My favourite ever Science fiction novel. Simply Epic and awesome on every level. Complex and mind bending!! Would love to see a movie but it would be very expensive and very long like LOTR trilogy. A masterpiece of imagination!

Oh excellent, a book series I've not read! I'm excited for all of these videos

My favorite sci-fi series.

His final comment "...tied directly to the purpose of the Shrek.." Had no idea Simmons' universe included Shrek. Mind blown.

one of the best plots ever created

Awesome video, keep the Hyperion videos coming!

I was taken to believe that there was only one shriek and the fight the super soldier had with a "Army" of shriek's was just time manipulation. One shriek folding it's timeline back onto one nugget of time.

Thank you for making the videos that you make much appreciated. You should dramatize Kassad's planetfall when I first read that it blew my mind.

Dan Simmons is seriously underrated.

So i just discovered your channel and binged all your Hyperion vids, and thought your voice sounds like a mix of Runesmith and Barley Sociable

I have this book!!! Been meaning to read it for ages, thanks for the reminder quinn :)

I hope to see more Hyperion vids in the future.

I usually like to go into books cold. But in hindsight, something like this would have been helpful. There was so much I didn't understand. (I loved it, but often was unclear on what was actually happening.)

Thank you! More Hyperion Content please!

I read sometime ago, like 15-20 years ago, Martin Scorsese wanted to make movies out of these books, or at least the 1st book. Not sure if he planned to direct and/or produce them.

oh been a while since I read that quadrilogy. Some of the content you really need to twist your mind around it to understand it, thanks for the explanations.

Dude, your videos are so fucking good. nice voice. no blearing techno music in the background or other bullshit.

2:26 i thought my headphones battery needed charging for a sec there 😂

Good job and thanks for the quality and your effort.a question: is ilium and olympos somehow connected to the Hyperion books??

Awesome!

Thank you

Please do more vids on Hyperion. I’m loving this shit!!!!

stumbling across your videos has led to me re-reading Dune and the Hyperion Cantos...wow..i miss it so much. thank you for bringing it back into the forefront of my mind. I just finished re-reading Hyperion moments ago and am teeming with excitement as i crack open Fall of Hyperion for the first time in 9 years. Thank you for doing these videos....so bloody good.

You should record audio books my friend!

In cinema I found 'Cloud Atlas' taking me to some of the same places and energies that Hyperion achieved. I tell folks you've gotta see that movie about 5 times to hit "critical mass" in comprehension, engagement, etc. I should re-read Hyperion for a 3rd time. One can't help but wonder at the prospect of that on film!

that's why they call it unfilmable. But it'll be done one day!

My favorite book of all time.

Like Dan Simmons, you certainly described them, but there is no explanation here...

The time tombs remind me of the structures on Illus in The Expanse.

You should do audiobooks man

Your good dude

Awesome video

What happened to Obsidian Nights? Hope its still happening

Anyone else find the brief audio distortion, when he is discussing the Sphinx, to be interesting?

This video is old but Man the cluster F+++ that is Hyperion. That's why time travel kind of sucks. I still liked both books but it was not a smooth journey.

I remember the underground mazes from the book. The walls were built from human bones, or was the floors? . Billions of humans. A few characters in the books think the Time Tombs are a warning to help humans avoid some extinction event. I can remember a line from the books that said humans tried to flee from from death underground. Using the ancient tunnels for shelter.

It was just getting good then it finished!

I saw the Shrike yesterday at Denny's.

Are you familiar with the Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny? It’s a really good series as well.

I. LOVE. HYPERION.

Iirc the jade tomb is kassads tomb and the thing that downloads his combat prowess into the shrike as the final reaper program

I feel like the more I learn about the Hyperion Cantos the less I understand what the damn story is actually about. So far all I gather is that there's a mysterious evil murder robot from the future, some huge mysterious labyrinths from the future, a bunch of mysterious monuments from the future, and the purpose of all these things are a mystery. From the future. And that's all well and good, but what is the actual _plot_ here?

I just finished book one and two. SPOILERS!!! I think it's pretty clear that the labyrinths were to be used for the humans seeking shelter from the death wand and the Shrike was acting in accordance to a plan. The priest Hoyt? went through a portal and ended up in one of the labyrinths but it was infused with people. Dead I think. Also with the cruciforums. He sees the Shrike, it pretty much lets him see it as what could be or what already happened in the future and then there's the plan to use the death wand on the Ousters and hiding people in the laberynths. Yet also it was a trap.... Should I go on? Just thought maybe that would clarify some things. I could be wrong but it's what I remember and how I saw it when I read it.

Woah.. Sounds like my type of Ish.

what is the background music its so good

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Vault of Glass looking hot~

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More Hyperion please

Hyperion chapter 4 might be the most tragic chapter I’ve ever read. Haven’t finished the book yet but i’d rather post here then Facebook.

I would gladly pay to hear you read Dune!

Fantastic series!

Hyperion is so cool

Not sure if I want to read this series knowing that much of it is unexplained.

The nine labyrinths were revealed to have been created by the technocore as a place to store humans infected with the cruciform parasite. They were intended as a back-up store of living humans incase the technocore decided they still needed humans for some purpose after they wiped out the wider galactic population.

Great content, not quite so great music

What’s the song used at the beginning?