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Books like Hyperion

Hyperion by Dan Simmons is about fate and sacrifice, time and memory, religion and faith. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. Homage to Catalonia
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    Homage to Catalonia

    George Orwell · Memoir

    Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's firsthand account of fighting in the Spanish Civil War, which he joined in late 1936 as a volunteer with the POUM militia — a Trotskyist revolutionary organization that was later suppressed by the Soviet-backed Stalinist wing of the Republican forces.

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  2. The Alchemist
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    The Alchemist

    Paulo Coelho · Religion & Spirituality

    The Alchemist is a Brazilian novel first published in 1988 and translated into 80 languages, making it one of the most translated books in history.

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  3. War and Peace
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    War and Peace

    Leo Tolstoy · Literary fiction

    War and Peace follows five aristocratic Russian families across fifteen years of Napoleonic war and peace, from the drawing rooms of St.

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  4. A Brief History of Time
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    A Brief History of Time

    Stephen Hawking · Science

    A Brief History of Time is Stephen Hawking's attempt to explain the biggest questions in physics — where the universe came from, how it behaves, and where it might be going — to readers with no scientific training.

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  5. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
    Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

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    Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

    Suzanne Simard · Science

    Suzanne Simard is the forest ecologist who discovered that trees communicate and share resources through underground mycorrhizal fungal networks — the research that gave rise to the concept of the "mother tree" and, at several removes, Peter Wohlleben's popular writing on the subject.

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  6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
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    2001: A Space Odyssey

    Arthur C. Clarke · Science fiction

    2001: A Space Odyssey begins with prehistoric man-apes encountering a featureless black monolith that somehow catalyzes their cognitive leap from prey to hunter.

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