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Em uma entrevista com writerswrite.com ele declarou explicitamente que foi a idéia de seu editor dividir o livro em duas seções, que os dois livros são de fato um único romance (em dois volumes) e que a decisão foi em grande parte motivada por seu desejo de pagar a hipoteca.
Q. "I'd like to first talk about your award-winning Hyperion series. When you first started writing Hyperion, did you realize at the time that it would span so many books, and so long a time period? Or did you write Hyperion originally as a stand-alone novel?"
Simmons - "I wrote Hyperion and its second-volume The Fall of Hyperion because my wife and I wanted to buy an old house and my agent said that if I wrote two SF novels (I was finishing two other books at the time), he could get me the $25,000 advance I needed for the down payment."
In truth, the structure served my deeper purpose of celebrating SF as a genre, writing in different styles from cyberpunk to Jack Vancian space opera. I could do this because the two Hyperion books are actually one large novel in two volumes.