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The third volume of Dan Simmons' grandiose saga "Hyperion's Song", dedicated to the fall and rise of a galactic civilization.

Almost three centuries have passed since the Fall of the Great Web, the null portals no longer function, and there is no trace of the once great Hegemony. But a holy place does not happen empty, and therefore the place of the Hegemony was taken by the revived Catholic Church, whose power and influence acquired a truly universal scale. Trillions of her followers on many inhabited planets have adopted the cruciform as a symbol of new faith and resurrection. And only a few local communities on the outlying backwater planets reject her authority. One of these people - Raoul Endymion, a resident of Hyperion, is instructed by the poet Martin Silenus, author of the legendary "Songs", to save the daughter of Lamia Bron - Aeneas, a girl who in the future will become the messiah and the herald of a new era - She-Who-Teaches.