Cantos d' Hypérion (original title: The Hyperion Cantos ) is a cycle of Science-fiction, written by daN Simmons, which falls under the category of the Space operated. This cycle gathers four novels: Hypérion ( Hyperion , 1989), the Fall of Hypérion ( The Fall off Hyperion , 1990), Endymion ( Endymion , 1995) and Awakening of Endymion ( The Small channel off Endymion , 1997), supplemented by two news: orphans of the propeller and the death of the centaur .

Principal planets

• Actéon
• Alliance-Maui , formerly peaceful tropical planet, become very tourist after its entry in Retz. It was the theater of violent rebellions against Hegemony carried out by separatists. This planet is made of a vast ocean strewn with natural or artificial mobile islands.
• Armaghast , planet labyrinthienne which shelters the vestiges of an old badly known civilization
• Asquith , planet colonized by the first emigrants of the Expansion, originating in British Isles. It was the residence of king Billy the Sad one before his departure for Hypérion, following the revolt of the Glennon-Height General on close planet.
• Barnard , planet native of the family Weintraub, it is especially known for its many universities. Controlled by the senator H. Feldstein.
• Thicket of God , planet-mother about Templiers, consisted of gigantic trees called “Trees worlds”.
• Deneb Drei
• Deneb Vier , industrial planet of Retz.
• Hope
• Freeholm , native planet of the mother of Brawne Lamia, characterized by a made difficult climate of a succession of violent one storms and tornadoes.
• Fuji , planet considered for its bloody casinos and its combat Samurais, industrial planet of Retz.
• Heaven' S Spoils , planet hostile whose capital is called " Plain of Boues". The poet Martin Silenus worked there with the service of the Trade union of the Mud Scrapers. It will be the first planet with being destroyed by Extros.
• Hebron , planet-colony Jewish, arid, counterpart of the kibbutzes of old Israel.
• Hypérion , planet with the borders of Retz, protectorate which forever completely integrated into Hegemony because of the refusal of the IA. Its three principal cities are Keats, the capital, Endymion and Port-Lovesong. Hypérion is one of the nine planets labyrinthiennes of the known universe. Native planet of Raul Endymion.
• Ixion
• Kastrop-Rauxel , planet out of the infosphère, without satellites, on which the Presidents of Hegemony give secret appointments to avoid being understood by the IA.
• Lee I, II, III
• Lusus , industrial planet with strong gravity, native planet of Brawne Lamia.
• Madhya , system without livable planet which is used only for the mining extractions and to trap possible illicit incursions into the system of Distrans gates.
• Veined of Dios , native planet of the Soya father-captain.
• Pond Infinitus , planet covered with a vast ocean.
• Mars , center of the military of Hegemony, known command for its School of Military Command called Olympus .
• Metaxas
• Maui-Covenant
• Nordholm
• New Ground , counterpart of the Old Earth.
• Ground , (or Old Ground ) planet of origin of the humanity, absorbed by a black hole, at the time of the Great Error of 08 - first tests of Distrans gate.
• Pacem , planet-colony of the Néo-Catholics, sits of the New Vatican, the pope Teilhard I^er and the pope Urbain XVI.
• Parvati , theater of the insurrection of the general Horace Glennon-Height, repressed in blood by colonel Fedmahn Kassad.
• Qom-Riyadh , Moslem planet-colony, Shiite theater of the insurrection carried out by the New Prophet , violently repressed by colonel Fedmahn Kassad.
• Rebirth I, II, III, IV, V
• Rebirth Minor , planet where resides the Philomel couple, industrial planet of Retz.
• Ground Draconi Septem , planet on which the Museum of Colonization is. It is covered with ice at the time of Pax.
• Svoboda
• Temple
• Thalia
• Tau Central Ceti (or TC ²) , capital policy, economic and administrative of Hegemony , center of the businesses of Retz, industrial planet of Retz.
• Tsingtao-Hsishuang Hammered . Excellent restaurants there are found.
• You IEN Shan , mountainous planet inhabited by descendants of Chinese civilizations and Tibetans.
• Vitus-Gray-Balianus B , where the people of the Propeller of the Spectrum of Amoiete saw.