Human or android, don Balthazar did not discriminate – he poinked them all. I didn’t mind the sweary casual style, but…I’ll let the quotes speak for themselves.Ĭenturies later, when I was in my satyr period, I felt that I finally understood poor don Balthazar’s priapic compulsions, but in those days it was mostly a hindrance to keeping young girls on the estate’s staff. She helps him defeat the enemies, then they have sex. It’s a story about a man who is visited by a mysterious woman during battles. The Soldier’s Tale was when things started to go sour. The tension and the mystery of what happened to the older priest, of what’s up with the Bikura society kept me at the edge of my seat, reading it long into the night with many a “what the fuck.” It’s almost horror in the end, but so incredibly compelling. There’s a lot of allusions and literary references to everything from Chaucer to Keats and many other classics. The prose is good as well, if tending towards descriptive at parts. On the way, each of them tells the tale of how and why they got to be there. A team of seven pilgrims – a priest, a soldier, a poet, a scholar, a detective, a consul and a templar – is assembled to travel to the planet Hyperion and the Shrike. Another case of an old classic not living up.
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