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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love a scifi series called the Hyperion Cantos that has a supernatural creature called the Shrike that impales people on a "time tree" to steal their Entropy. It's not at all adorable though.

(major death of the author tho, and the 3rd/4th book get pretty problematic)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I only got through the original Hyperion, it had great ideas but boring as hell execution. Anyways I always wanted to know, is the Shrike traveling in time backwards? Isn't it's destiny in the past?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It has one mission: to make the human target that is the greatest foe of the machines to show up and kill him/her. And the way is hurting humans in that particular way.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Kind of? I think it mostly lives outside of time iirc, but it's been some...time, since I digested it all. It definitely originated in the future though, you find out in the Endymion books.