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Endymion

Dan Simmons · 1996 · 441 pages

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Rakhim Davletkaliyev loved it
It’s one of those books that I actually hope won’t be made into a movie any time soon, since it’s so good and the universe is so humongous, I can’t imagine a non-disappointing movie adaptation. (another one of those is the Chronicles of Amber series by Roger Zelazny). Endymion is 3rd in the Hyperion Cantos, and because the story is so much further in time from the original 2 parts of Hyperion,…

on rakhim.org · 16 Aug 2026

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.