< Hyperion
Hyperion/YMMV
- Abusing the Kardashev Scale For Fun and Profit: The Lions and Tigers and Bears are at least a Solid Type III, quite possibly higher.
- Badass Decay: The limits of the Shrike's power are explored in the second duology, where it faces creatures nearly as powerful as itself.
- Complete Monster: Rhadamanth Nemes, in all senses of the phrase. Albedo might be even worse.
- Crowning Moment of Awesome: Colonel Kassad lives and breathes this. Single combat with the Shrike.
- Oh, but don't forget the one Raul Endymion gets in the fourth book. Single combat with Nemes - a creature nearly as powerful as the Shrike. And he won! And Raul didn't even have nifty future armor.
- Crowning Moment of Funny: Martin Silenus' story.
- Really, anytime the story focuses on him.
- Except when he's on the Shrike's tree.
- Really, anytime the story focuses on him.
- Even Better Sequel: The three other books in the Hyperion quadtrilogy - Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, and The Rise of Endymion are regarded by some readers as even better than the original novel.
- On the other hand, some consider the second pair to be substantially inferior to the first two.
- Genius Bonus: The series is littered with literary references, from overt to subtle.
- High Octane Nightmare Fuel:
- The Shrike itself
- The Archangel ships
- The tale of Father Hoyt/Father Duré
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Since Moneta is revealed to be future Rachel, this means that Kassad was telling Sol about all the times he had sex with Sol's daughter in his tale.
- Jerkass: Silenus is definitely seen as one throughout much of the first two books, with some of his fellow pilgrams assaulting and threatening to kill him due to his behavior.
- Tear Jerker: Sol Weintraub's story, definitely. Aenea's death as well.
- Merin's conversation with the dolphins
Dolphin: Miss Shark/Miss Shark/Miss Shark/Miss Shark/Shark/Shark/Shark
- The last fifty pages of The Rise of Endymion count too, but then the tears are mainly tears of happiness.
- Sci Fi Ghetto: The whole series is based on poems by John Keats. It's still genre fiction, though.
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