The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade
threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age.
She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those
known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, onetime shepherd
and convicted murderer, must help her deliver her startling message to
her growing army of disciples. But first they must embark on a final
spectacular mission to discover the underlying meaning of the universe
itself.
They have been followed on their journey by the mysterious
Shrike--monster, angel, killing machine--who is about to reveal the
long-held secret of its origin and purpose. And on the planet of
Hyperion, where the story first began, the final revelation will be
delivered--an apocalyptic message that unlocks the secrets of existence
and the fate of humankind in the galaxy.