Dan Simmons is not just one of the classic science fiction writers of our time. He is the author of the most probably famous and popular in the world "space opera" - the tetralogy "Hyperion," "Fall of Hyperion," "Endymion," "Sunrise of Endymion," the creator of a truly unique in its originality world, a mysterious and changeable world of portals connecting planets, the great river Tethys and the great star wars, in which the fates of a priest and a soldier, a poet and scientist, consul and detective.