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Hyperion Cantos books in order

The 4 books of Hyperion Cantos in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 2 books with page data add up to about 1,013 pages.

Books in order
4
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
1,013
sum of medians, 2 books
Reading time
18h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Hyperion
    1989 · 5 editions
    496 pages
    8 h 45 min
  2. 2
    The Fall of Hyperion
    1990 · 6 editions
    517 pages
    9 h 07 min
  3. 3
    Endymion
    1996 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  4. 4
    The Rise of Endymion
    1997 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. Hyperion4962. The Fall of Hyperion517
1. Hyperion4962. The Fall of Hyper…517
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 1,013 pages for the 2 books with page data.

Reading time
17 h 51 min
At 30 min a day
36 days
At 1 hour a day
18 days
Order follows the series number recorded on Wikidata. Novellas numbered with decimals (for example 2.5) sit between the main books.

Data: Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors); Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).