After busting through the door with a whole new
Hyperion story in Endymion,
Simmons returns with The Rise of Endymion
to close it. Answering all of the
questions and satisfying all the plot build up of the first half, Rise concludes the story in grand
fashion, living up to the expectation created. It does, however, leave a little wanting thematically. But to the review!
The
Rise of Endymion opens where Endymion left off. Aenea,
Endymion, and the others are in the American West recovering from the attack by
the church and learning architecture from a cybrid of Frank Lloyd Wright. They are quickly separated, however, and
Endymion goes on a perilous mission of which he knows not the end. Simmons upping the ante imaginatively, the
dangerous and exotic events of Endymion’s life prepare him in every way for the
life he finds at the end, including how he ends up in the Schroedinger’s Box.
