• Hatandwatch [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    I love a scifi series called the Hyperion Cantos that has a supernatural creature called the Shrike that impales people on a “time tree” to steal their Entropy. It’s not at all adorable though.

    (major death of the author tho, and the 3rd/4th book get pretty problematic)

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 months ago

      I only got through the original Hyperion, it had great ideas but boring as hell execution. Anyways I always wanted to know, is the Shrike traveling in time backwards? Isn’t it’s destiny in the past?

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        2 months ago

        It has one mission: to make the human target that is the greatest foe of the machines to show up and kill him/her. And the way is hurting humans in that particular way.