Re:Dan Simmon's _Hyperion_. (Score 1)

No contest - Dan Simmons is BRILLIANT - anyone that can make me laugh, curse and cry like he does is a Master - totally enthralling and involving. David Zindell's Neverness series is intelectual and otherworldly like no other while Ian M Banks has an earthy (no pun) surealism that makes the strangest situation believable - an oxymoron? - perhaps - but read Against A Dark Background as I did on a train in China and you might begin to understand.... despite the attractions of that wonderful land his vision still engaged.