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"Odd how many suffering members of humankind have faced eternity obsessed with their bowels, their bedsores, or the meagerness of their diets."

Dan Simmons in The Fall of Hyperion

Originally Published March 1, 1990

Paperback edition:

517 pages - Dec. 1, 1995