<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">And in all fairness, one should as well pick up "Endymion" and "The Rise of Endymion" to round out the series, although the first two Hyperion Cantos are superior. <div><br></div><div>But "gory horror novels?" Really? I could see pseudo-cyberpunk (the first two), homage to Chaucer and Keats, and mystic fantasy (the last two), but I don't recall there being a whole lot of gore. The descriptions of the Tree of Pain were not pleasant, but were hardly gory, at least as I am imagining "gore."</div><div><br></div><div>Lane</div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 21, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:35 AM, b sharp <<a href="mailto:bsharporflat@hotmail.com">bsharporflat@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> (sorry not familiar with The Shrike).<br> </blockquote><div><br>Then I suggest you run-don't-walk to your favorite bookseller and get copies of<br>Dan Simmons' HYPERION and THE FALL OF HYPERION, two of the finest SF<br>novels not by Wolfe in the past twenty years.<br> <br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant<br>-----<br><a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyer">http://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyer</a><br> <a href="http://www.danehyoakes.com">http://www.danehyoakes.com</a><br><br>I once absend-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce. -- T. Pratchett </div> _______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List<br>To post, write <a href="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a><br>Subscription/information: <a href="http://www.urth.net">http://www.urth.net</a></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>