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On the planet called Hyperion, beyond what the law states of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike.  There are those who praise it.  There are those who worry it.  And there are those who've vowed to ruin it.  In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where large, brooding buildings proceed backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.  On the eve of Armageddon, with the whole galaxy at war, seven pilgrims established on your final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of the lives.  Each posesses desperate hope--and a dreadful secret.  And you can contain the Destiny of mankind in his hands.