The Endymion Omnibus, Dan Simmons
The last two books in the Hyperion Quartet. It came as an uncomfortably large paperback book and, as a result, linger on my shelves for a long while. However, once I got reading, it was engrosing. The third book switched back and forth between a pair of stories, keeping a great pacing and driving you to read more. The fouth book had more story lines and felt somewhat muddled as a result. There was also a clumsy infodump about artificial life, perhaps made worse because I knew the exact source material it had been cribbed from.
