Why hyperion

We spoke with Kafantaris specifically about his most evocative green product, the XP It also creates downforce, and allows you to have great cornering from one side to the other. Of course, it [the XP-1] has the 1,mile range capacity—which we all love—and the fast refuel. It has a very elegant, Tony Stark—like interface in the vehicle. There is a technology that takes heat-waste energy and turns it back into electric energy in a number of places on the vehicle.

When you test-drive a battery car, you are always impressed with the acceleration. This is extraordinarily heavy, why am I throwing this much weight around? We definitely want to show the vehicle off, what it can do with range and performance—it is a hypercar in every sense of the word. There is a sound, get ready for it. However, we will very quickly be doing a couple of others that are more affordable.

I think instead of licensing , I would say we want to work in partnership with other companies with more expertise in those fields, so that we do not distract ourselves from the core technology. You go to car builders to build a car if you want to build it in large quantities. We want to maximize the input that we can have on the world by providing only what makes us unique: cutting-edge technology originally designed for space flight, and then also bringing energy solutions the world desperately needs to bring down greenhouse gas.

That is, essentially, the idea. But there are three divisions [of the company]: one is the motor division, one is the aerospace division and one is the energy division. We care a lot about the product.

The potential of hydrogen is truly limitless. Sign up for Robb Report's Newsletter. Deputy chief investment officer Jason Orthman says COVID has given the world a preview of the sort of world Hyperion has based its portfolio around.

The pandemic has highlighted the different ways we consume, pay and work. The market seems to share that conviction. While they continue to dynamically manage their portfolios — trimming and adding to positions to how share prices move against the year intrinsic valuation Hyperion places on the company — they also argue many of the tech stars look even more attractive than before the virus struck. This is because the acceleration of digital trends has actually brought earnings and cash flow forward from a year horizon to the year horizon that Hyperion focuses on.

The most recent thematic Hyperion has focused on is around the shift to green energy and transportation, best represented by the Tesla bet. If economic growth is depressed amid the pandemic and tepid after it, do you really want to be weighed down by the large industrial companies, established financial services players and big resources houses that still dominate indices around the world?

Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer Help using this website - Accessibility statement. Chanticleer Print article. Like Canterbury Tales. Seven very different people are on a pilgrimage together to Hyperion and each of their back-stories unfolds the plot. You can tell that the author has a love of science and futurism but also a love of language and poetry.

References to Keats abound. Warning: When I started this book I thought it was a stand-alone novel. However, it ends abruptly and I'm told that the Fall of Hyperion finishes the story. I loved this book. It is beautifully written with brilliant characterisation and a really good storyline. The format means that there are six interesting stories narrated by each of the main characters and these in themselves are well-constructed sci-fi.

The over-arching story kept me interested throughout and made me immediately order the sequel "Fall of Hyperion", which I also read and loved. Very highly recommended to people who like the genre - it is one of the best of it's kind. Well read. We all have our favourite authors and when listening to them as an audiobook we either fall more in love with them or end up slightly disappointed that they don't meet our expectations - we don't like the reader or it doesn't fire our imagination the same as with our own reading.

With this in mind, when I have been selecting new authors, I have done so on the basis of comments people have made, playing a sample of the narrator and how well it has been rated here and elsewhere online.

Dan Simmons and Victor Bevine et al have been a find! This has book has depth in all sorts of unexpected areas and the narration is first rate.

Lots of different themes are covered from different perspectives as the story unfold before you - you'll love some characters, hate others and see still others in a new way. It makes you think about certain things that are relevant and wonder how you might have chosen to deal with it.

I don't wish to give any plot away and I hope that you might discover this wonderful combination of first rate narration with a fantastic author. This is without doubt, the best series of books I have downloaded from Audible so far. Epic sci-fi with amazing characters that you will really feel for as the story unfolds. I had of course read the books a long time ago but hearing them brings a whole new dimension to the story, beautifully narrated by the reader, my only tiny complaint was some of the American pronounciation of word and names but it never gets in the way of the huge, complex, and very rewarding story.

I've just finished listening to Fall of Hyperion and have to admit to tears in my eyes at certain points. About to start Endymion, plenty of tears to come as I remember. Highly recommended even if you don't like sci-fi! This has got to be one of the best science fiction books I have read. The listener follows seven pilgrims who are on a quest to meet a mythical monster - the 'shrike' on the planet 'Hyperion'. Each pilgrim shares his story with the others, and each story is told in a different style which reflects the individuals' characters.

The stories are sometimes harrowing, sometimes sensual and sometimes touching, but always riveting. Dan Simmons has created an incredible, multifaceted world worlds! It is thoroughly captivating - buy 'The Fall of Hyperion' at the same time as you'll want to read on. This was an eye-opener!

The whole series is exquisitely crafted and sensitively narrated and so good I hope it wins many many awards. It takes just a little while to engage with the story, but then you realise that you are in love with this strange but fascinating world with astonishing yet poignant tales.

Highly addictive, I bought the whole series. Overly verbose joyless stultifying bollocks. Every sentence is laboured under the weight of dull, artless verbiage. This story is probably one of the best sci fi books I have ever read listened to! The stories within the story are likewise fantastic. The only reason I gave it 4 stars is that an audiobook is only as good as the narrator. This book is read by numerous narrators and the lady who narrates M.

Brawne Lamia has one of the most annoying accents ever! It was more frustrating as Brawne Lamia is a really interesting character. Every so often you come across something really special when reading or listening. This is not "like" Dune There were times when listening the to this novel when the words flowed over the ear like quicksilver.

It has real characters, great action and a unique storyline, it is complex but not obscure and it is epic without being pretentious. In short it is a real gem, listen to it! The plot was OK and the characters interesting but the "science" did not work for me. It seems in this world anyone can do anything anywhere any time.

All a bit silly! Unfortunately as this book has no ending I decided to go on to listen to the fall of Hyperion, that's 20 hours of my life I won't get back I had ordered the two follow up books but have returned them unread.

An exceptional book, a very good recording and an enjoyable and engrossing experience from beginning to end. If you can find the time please try to read the book, but if that isn't possible then this is the next best thing, a story of stupefying complexity and subtlety. The best thing is that the second book is as good if not better than the first, so enjoy.

I didn't know anything about Hyperion going into the book and enjoyed a lot of the world building and deep dives in the characters. Some characters are more interesting than others, and some of the narrators are far better than others.

The narrator for Brawne Lamia almost killed the book for me and ruined what could have been an interesting story.

The delivery was so flat and uninspired that it was a slog just to get through to the end of that section. Overall, great fun though and I enjoyed it enough to get the second book in the series. This book is not your typical Sci-Fi read, it had been on my list for a long time and I finally opted for the audio book over the actual book.

It was very enjoyable. Dan Simmons takes his time setting up the story and if your patient the pay off is worth it. Hyperion is hands down favourite novels. Every time I read or listen it just reveals another layer of its depth. Who was your favorite character and why?

No single character of Hyperion is my favourite, they're all an interwove mesh of personalities which form the story. The mixed voiced actors is done fantastically in this production. Usually I find mixed narrator's disjointing, but in this case, not at all. Did you have an emotional reaction to this book?

Did it make you laugh or cry? The themes found in Hyperion are heavy. Much of them will stick with you forever as this oppressive weight on your chest. Genuine horror. The story is brilliant. I hung on till after the priests story, but after that, the book was painstakingly slow. I would compare it to 'restless leg syndrome' While I was engrossed in the story, I just kept wanting something to happen.

Get all four books. The best saga ever written. The narration was adequate without being stellar and might have been better with a better set of words to speak.

The telling of 6 disjointed stories was more a literary game thana tactic to enhance the story. I purchased this title on the strength of the Hugo Award winning status - it must have been a very lean year. Slowish start getting used to the verbose style but once it got going was on board from start to finish. Add to Cart failed. Please try again later. Add to Wish List failed. Remove from wishlist failed.

Adding to library failed. Please try again. Follow podcast failed. Unfollow podcast failed. Stream or download thousands of included titles. Hyperion By: Dan Simmons. No default payment method selected. Add payment method. Switch payment method. We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method. Pay using card ending in. Taxes where applicable. Listeners also enjoyed Bray Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins Unabridged Overall. Parable of the Sower By: Octavia E.

Bray Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins Unabridged Overall. Publisher's Summary On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike.

There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. Fantasy Adventure Space Opera. Hyperion and The Fall Of Hyperion set a new standard for grand-scale science fiction. It was the Hyperion books that made him a superstar. The man, quite simply, is what we in the trade call a writer's writer. Editor's Pick A sci-fi classic with a masterful full cast narration "This epic sci-fi listen was way outside of my usual comfort zone so I did not go in expecting to get so sucked in by the stories or deeply affected by the characters as I did.

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