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''The Rise of Endymion'' is a 1997 science fiction novel by Dan Simmons. It is the fourth and final novel in his Hyperion Cantos fictional universe. The novel won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1998.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 1998 Award Winners & Nominees )〕 ==Plot== ''The Rise of Endymion'' begins after the end of ''Endymion'' with Raul Endymion still imprisoned and writing his memoirs of his time with Aenea. On the planet Pacem in Vatican City the pope, Lenar Hoyt dies. Having previously borne Father Paul Dure's cruciform Hoyt resurrects as Dure. Dure is killed by Cardinal Lourdusamy, who also kills all witnesses to Dure's resurrection, as he has done for the last several hundred years whenever Hoyt has died to keep Dure's shared existence a secret. Hoyt is then reborn, and when elected Pope again, takes a new Papal name: in this case, Urban XVI. Urban announces a new Crusade upon his conception as Pope, and with the development of the new "Archangel"-class starships, sends his fleets out to make war on the Ousters, still hiding along the edges of human-populated space. Father Captain de Soya, after near exile for failing, is recalled to captain one of the new ships. However, after attacking an Ouster breeding creche asteroid de Soya and several of his crew find the murder of children unconscionable and they rebel, absconding with the ship and putting the rest of the crew into suspended animation. Raul Endymion and Aenea, still living on Earth (at Taliesin West) and learning architecture from the "Old Architect" (a cybrid Frank Lloyd Wright). Aenea, despite being barely in her teens quickly becomes a teacher to the other humans not only in leading the community but also about "the Void which Binds" and "the music of the spheres". The old architect dies when she is sixteen and Aenea tells Raul that he has to leave and travel via Farcaster portal along the River Tethys, but she will meet him at the end of his journey on the planet Tien Shan. Upon reaching the end of his perilous kayak trip (of a few days to weeks), Raul finds the starship they had abandoned in the previous book. The ship informs Raul that the travel to Ti'en Shan will create a 5-year time debt (due to time dilation as the ship accelerates to and decelerates from the relativistic speed needed to launch its faster-than-light travel mode) so when he arrives Aenea will be 21. During their time on T'ien Shan where she is working on a hanging temple for the Dalai Lama. Like all buildings on the planet it is built high in the mountains to keep it free of the phosgene clouds that rise several km above the acid seas. Raul and Aenea's relationship shifts from protector and friend to lover and teacher, as Raul becomes a prominent member of Aenea's congregation. Raul becomes jealous of practically everyone Aenea has spent time with over the past five years while he was in spaceflight, including a twenty-something-year-old Rachel Weintraub (the infant from the Hyperion books now grown up). Aenea has spent her time teaching and also reveals that many people on the planets she has visited have taken "communion" from her and she states that people misinterpreted the message of Jesus and that they literally needed to imbibe his blood to take part in what he had to offer. People who take communion from Aenea by drinking wine infused with a drop of her blood undergo several changes due to the virus she carries: if they have a cruciform if withers completely inside 24 hours, they are no longer able to be joined with a cruciform, the gain the ability to access "the Void which Binds" (though they must practise and most do not display much talent in the story), their blood can be used to pass on the same virus and their offspring will inherit the same virus. Another side-effect of Aenea's communion revealed later is great empathy, the person who inflicts pains experiences that pain. Aenea repeatedly refuses to let Raul take communion from her. When Raul counts up the months she mentions in the story of her travels across space he determines there is a substantial gap unaccounted for and on questioning her Raul becomes especially jealous of an unknown man with whom Aenea spent just under two years whom she married and to whom she bore a child. An envoy of the Pax led by Cardinal Mustafa discover them. Despite orders from the cardinal, Radamanth Nemes and her three siblings attack Aenea and Raul with intent to kill but they are again defended by the Shrike who kills one of them allowing the pair to escape. Nemes reveals herself as an agent of the TechnoCore, not a loyal servant of the Pax, and for his presumption at giving her orders, Nemes kills all of the envoys except for the cardinal whom she maims and blinds. Having picked up many people from T'ien Shan in the consul's spaceship the spaceship is nearly destroyed by Pax ships but instead it farcasts, without a farcast portal, to an Ouster dyson sphere made from trees provided by the Templars. On this "biosphere" Raul awakens after a coma to find there Het Masteen, the Templar who was one of the Hyperion pilgrims (he disappeared, returned, then died on Hyperion over 240 years ago), and Fedmahn Kassad (another of the pilgrims who also died in the past and who travelled through time fighting the Shrike), and Father de Soya who has taken Aenea's communion. Finally Raul is allowed to take her communion. Raul learns from her that the cruciform is not natural, it is a construct of the TechnoCore, that while the farcaster portals were believed to be used to allow the TechnoCore to use human brains as processors the cruciform now fulfils this role and that the TechnoCore does not exist in one any place but the cruciforms host the Core. They oppose her as she threatens them by restricting their existence. Trying to divert a Pax attack Aenea sends a hand written message to Pacem via a captured Pax courier ship only the attack cannot be called off. The key characters, several hundred other humans who have taken her communion, and a motionless shrike, escape on a Templar tree-ship captained by Het Masteen who has agreed that the sacred tree will become the Tree of Pain (last seen on Hyperion). Aenea causes the ship to farcast and she drops the passengers off at many planets where they will continue teaching her message that the Void that Binds is Love and Love is a fundamental force of the universe like gravity or electroweak. Aenea, Raul and de Soya cast to Pacem and de Soya leads them through unused underground train lines and catacombs to St Peter's Basilica where Hoyt (as pope) is celebrating High Mass on Holy Thursday. She sends de Soya away then interrupts the mass and she and Raul are arrested. Raul is sentenced to death but not wishing to sully their hands by murder he is placed in his far away Schrodinger cell with cyanide that will be triggered by radioactive decay. In this sealed cell he spends what is to him an indeterminate amount of time and he confesses as narrator of the story to having lied about not knowing her fate (as announced at the start of the previous book). After capture Aenea is tortured by Nemes at the order of the TechnoCore ambassador. The torture chamber is surrounded by TechnoCore sensors. Aenea reveals she is aware that they seek to force Aenea to cast away and use the gathered data to replicate her abilities. However, the Pax representative present, convincing the Core to allow him to try to get her to reveal her secrets, instead kills her by burning her to death. Facing up to this and having subconsciously though about things while writing Raul realises that Aenea told him he has the ability to cast as she did, as others could too if they practised, and he casts himself to Pacem. There he meets survivors of an attack and retreat by loyalist Pax forces (who are now held up on a single planet with only a few million people as opposed to the many thousands of millions before Aenea), including Father de Soya. Raul learns that he has been incarcerated for 13 months. Everyone who had taken Aenea's communion shared in her experience, including her pain, and also acted as broadcasters sending the same sensations to everyone else on their planets', even those who had not taken communion, and revealing the machinations of the TechnoCore to enslave humanity. He casts them to Hyperion where they meet Martin Silenus with whom they cast to Mars and learn from Fedmahn that Earth has returned. All of them then travel to Earth. On Earth the Shrike appears having travelled through time and brought with it a younger Aenea who using her powers has forced it to bring her there and then. Raul discovers he is the man with whom she had a child in the missing time she wouldn't explain about on T'ien Shan and that she will have to leave after a just under two years. Silenus dies and is buried, Raul tells Fedmahn that he knows that after Fedmahn is buried in the Time Tomb he will be the seed about which the Shrike is created, Bettik is discovered to the repesentative of the unknown culture , the "lions and tigers and bears", who has been observing humans and the TechnoCore for centuries and de Soya marries the couple. Aenea tells Raul that she hasn't looked into the future for the coming two years, tells the others to not travel to Earth for two years, that for this time it is just for she and Raul and their yet to be conceived child. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Rise of Endymion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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