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  "id": "booksreddit:recommendation-receipt:hyperion",
  "book": {
    "slug": "hyperion",
    "title": "Hyperion",
    "author": "Dan Simmons",
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      "Dan Simmons"
    ],
    "first_published": 1989
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  "consensus": "Hyperion is the biggest number in this dataset: 6371 mentions, and 5663 of them on r/printSF, which treats it less as a recommendation than a reflex. That reflex gets mocked from inside the sub. One joke (↑324) recommends Hyperion for being 'EXACTLY like Hyperion by Dan Simmons,' a dig at how automatically it gets named regardless of the actual ask. r/suggestmeabook (501) and r/Fantasy (195) barely register by comparison.",
  "read_if": "This is the book r/printSF reaches for by reflex, so much that one comment (↑324) jokes it's recommended for being 'EXACTLY like Hyperion by Dan Simmons,' go in expecting a genre-defining reference point, not an underdog pick. If body horror sticks with you, brace for the Cruciform; one reader (↑165) says a single chapter gave them actual nightmares as a teenager.",
  "skip_if": "Dan Simmons' own politics get raised as a real complication: one comment (↑207) says his 'decades long backslide into a really weird vein of reactionary conservative politics' is already detectable 'in Hyperion,' not just his later work.",
  "strongest_evidence": {
    "subreddit": "printSF",
    "excerpt": "You make some really good points. You should check out *Hyperion* by Dan Simmons. Sounds like exactly what you’re looking for!",
    "score": 555,
    "sentiment": 0.6,
    "published_at": "2020-12-15T17:30:13+00:00",
    "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/kdpej8/before_you_recommend_hyperion/gfxup27/"
  },
  "dissent": {
    "editorial_caveat": "Dan Simmons' own politics get raised as a real complication: one comment (↑207) says his 'decades long backslide into a really weird vein of reactionary conservative politics' is already detectable 'in Hyperion,' not just his later work.",
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  },
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      },
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  "updated_at": "2026-07-06T00:00:00.000Z",
  "sources": [
    {
      "subreddit": "printSF",
      "excerpt": "You make some really good points. You should check out *Hyperion* by Dan Simmons. Sounds like exactly what you’re looking for!",
      "score": 555,
      "sentiment": 0.6,
      "published_at": "2020-12-15T17:30:13+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/kdpej8/before_you_recommend_hyperion/gfxup27/"
    },
    {
      "subreddit": "printSF",
      "excerpt": "I recommend Hyperion by Dan Simmons. It's EXACTLY like Hyperion by Dan Simmons.",
      "score": 324,
      "sentiment": 0,
      "published_at": "2025-06-30T23:29:15+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1loml41/im_looking_for_a_book_like_hyperion_same_style/n0o1hsl/"
    },
    {
      "subreddit": "printSF",
      "excerpt": "Dan Simmons has been in a decades long backslide into a really weird vein of reactionary conservative politics, which you're getting a whiff of in Hyperion. A lot of his recent work has been focused on what he sees as the negative ramifications of the liberal state and the rise of Islam on the globa…",
      "score": 207,
      "sentiment": 0,
      "published_at": "2023-05-28T16:52:56+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/13u3hqh/hyperion_is_really_good_but_the_way_that_dan/jlyop3h/"
    },
    {
      "subreddit": "printSF",
      "excerpt": "I'd also say Hyperion, although Fire Upon the Deep, Use of Weapons, and Oryx and Crake are right up there",
      "score": 175,
      "sentiment": 0.3,
      "published_at": "2025-05-30T17:26:01+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1kza0b8/whats_the_1_single_best_scifi_novel_youve_ever/mv3pyhs/"
    }
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  "limitations": [
    "Mention counts describe the tracked Reddit sample, not every Reddit comment or every reader.",
    "Average sentiment summarizes sampled discussion and is not a star rating.",
    "Editorial consensus, reader fit, and caveats are derived from the existing sourced book synthesis."
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