I finished "Hyperion" by Dan Simmons yesterday. My first SF maybe ever...good to start out with the best, I'd say. I wasn't sure I'd want to continue with book 2, but by the time I got to the end, I knew I needed to keep going. Our local library doesn't have any of the four, so I may download the two I'm missing onto the kindle. I boggled some with all the futuristic techno jargon, but at the heart of it all, it was just like the other books I've read by this author... a good story line, (actually, multiple stories!), good characters and great writing. I bought "Hyperion" and "Endymion" at a used book store in AZ, so am missing the other two. In the meantime, I went to a local used paperback store to look for them. No luck, but I did get a copy of "Carrion Comfort", so have just started it.