HYPERION

perhaps it's just me, but you know when i pick up a book, i expect it to be a self contained world, with a beginning, middle and end, with the stress on End. but this isn't what you get in SF novels, but jesus they should warn you or something.

And this book is great, very captivating, a little long, and dated from the eighties but pretty bang on with the future all outdated and plausible even now.

this is the story of seven people going to commit suicide at some time tombs and a monster, the shirke, who travels back from our future to judge all of us and grant wishes, interesting, and bloody, a Sf monster tale very space operaesque, they always use the word baroque, i like that. the best pilgrim story involves a girl ageing backward and her father's quest to save her and his fight against god.

i loved the book even though it just stops with no ending, i'm reading the second of all four of them now, fuckers, gotta learn how to tighten it up. does anyone even edit these massive piles of pages

filling pages is not how to please your readers. authors, editors, publishers i demand editing, or blood.