The Marriage of Two Worlds: A Quasi-Christian Vision of the Evolution of the Universe and Humanity in Dan Simmons’ “Hyperion Cantos”
Grzegorz TRĘBICKI
Zakład Literatur Obcych, Instytut Literaturoznawstwa, Uniwersytet Jana Kochanowskiego, ul. Uniwersytecka 17, 25-405 Kielce, Poland , Polandhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6740-8922
Abstract
“The Hyperion Cantos” by a well-known American science fiction writer Dan Simmons is one of the most outstanding achievements of hard SF in the last decades. It is an epic story of the struggle of a handful of protagonists against artificial intelligences of the TechnoCore for the future shape of the universe. At the same time, it is one of the few SF works attempting to unite the physical and metaphysical realities with the help of the elements of Christian philosophy. The present article briefly analyzes the above motifs.
Keywords:
science fiction, artificial intelligences, Dan Simmons, Hyperion cycle, eschatology, ontology, quantum physics, evolution of the universeTRĘBICKI, G. (2023). Mariaż dwóch światów. Quasi-chrześcijańska wizja ewolucji człowieka i kosmosu w „Pieśniach Hyperiona” Dana Simmonsa. Ethos. Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Pawła II KUL, 36(4 (144). https://doi.org/10.12887/36-2023-4-144-09
Grzegorz TRĘBICKI
Zakład Literatur Obcych, Instytut Literaturoznawstwa, Uniwersytet Jana Kochanowskiego, ul. Uniwersytecka 17, 25-405 Kielce, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6740-8922
Zakład Literatur Obcych, Instytut Literaturoznawstwa, Uniwersytet Jana Kochanowskiego, ul. Uniwersytecka 17, 25-405 Kielce, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6740-8922
