Works by Dan Simmons (Study Guide) - Hyperion, Novels by Dan Simmons, Short Story Collections by Dan Simmons, Hyperion, the Fall of Hyperion (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Hyperion, Novels by Dan Simmons, Short Story Collections by Dan Simmons, Hyperion, the Fall of Hyperion, Prayers to Broken Stones, Hyperion Cantos, Endymion, Needlegun, Farcaster, Planets of the Hyperion Cantos, the Shrike, Orphans of the Helix, Ilium, Song of Kali, Technocore, the Rise of Endymion, Summer of Night, the Terror, Olympos, the Hollow Man, Templars, Containment Field, Deathwand, a Winter Haunting, the Crook Factory, Ousters, Hawking Mat, Erg, Muse of Fire, Fires of Eden. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: In Dan Simmons' Hyperion universe, the containment field is a common technology with many uses varying from military defense shield to civilian safety restraint.The containment field is apparently a type of controlled force field of varying capability; the apparent strength of a containment field is denoted by its class a class one containment field at lower settings could be used to keep children safely in their seats in a vehicle, or keep insects from bothering tourists on a nature path; a class three containment field could be utilized as a sort of windshield during atmospheric travel, or simulate artificial gravity; higher classes of containment fields (up to ten, or even higher) could be set to reflect all incoming radiation and matter and serve as extremely powerful defensive shields for military craft, repelling laser/energy weapons, nuclear explosions, conventional weapons, etc.Even lower-class containment fields like those utilized by the Consul's civilian starship are capable of deflecting some degree of energy weapon attack; the ship's AI claims it is well equipped to comfortably hover in the upper levels of a red giant star.In interstellar travel, containment fields shield the passengers within ships from the enormous g-forces ...