Wow. I picked up a copy of Hyperion this morning while taking a random stroll through town - something I rarely do during a work day anymore. I popped into a book shop on a complete whim, and picked it up as it had been on my list for a while. The coincidence feels deeply uncanny.
Do yourself a favor and get the audiobook after you read the physical book. It is, hands down, the best audiobook ever made. By far and away.
I started reading it for the first time this week. It’s just a statistical anomaly… but humans are wired to notice and feel coincidence; it connects us to space and time in a way that must have helped make religion more believable.
"Coincidence is a glimpse of the scaffolding of reality."
I read that many years ago, forgot the source.
It would be interesting if it were Dan Simmons…
Hope you come back to this memory when they discuss the void that binds.
And I just finished The Rise of Endymion a few days ago. Uncanny indeed.