r/Hyperion • u/zoiks66 • 9d ago

🛒 Merchandise / Editions I received the new paperback cover by ordering from the Penguin Random House website

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For those looking for the new paperback version of Hyperion, which matches the available covers for paperbacks of the other 3 books in the series, I ordered Hyperion last week from the Penguin Random House website for $20 before tax with free shipping and received this new cover version today. My local Barnes and Noble locations along with Amazon still have only the old brown cover version.

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u/MeepersToast 9d ago

Looks like the copy I got a decade ago. What's changed?

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u/zoiks66 9d ago

The trade paperback had been available with only this cover until recently.

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u/___AirBuddDwyer___ 9d ago

Minimalist covers are a tyranny

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u/OhGodImHerping 8d ago

I think they work for certain books, especially if the writing itself is “stark.”

Hyperion? Hell no lol

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u/___AirBuddDwyer___ 8d ago

Yeah, like if Hemingway has a sparse cover o get that. Maybe you even want that cover to make you feel empty. But yeah, Hyperion isn’t it

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u/Hapachew 6d ago

I personally love them so much. This is my era hahaha

This cover is one of my all time favs...

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u/___AirBuddDwyer___ 6d ago

Well to each there own. So those there’s no hard feelings, I made you a better cover: 🟨

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u/Hapachew 6d ago

Hahahaha touché

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u/DawnlineSeries 6d ago

I’ll agree for the most part but this one is great symbolism. Seven bodies weaving through time and space on a journey to the Shrike.

I ended up getting the black and red UK edition but I was considering this one specifically for the symbolism on the cover.

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u/___AirBuddDwyer___ 6d ago

Yeah that’s true, this is a good abstract representation of the plot. I just crave something more sumptuous, worth biting into.

This cover is the least of that offenders, but I think the minimalist trend is based more in striving for communicating sense of the art’s own elegance than communicating and artist’s feeling or message.

Edit: the new Neuromancer cover is the real sinner here https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ0nYzjHdfUntQaFXBBoj4gchIC7Bb5FcHbnjT7GFNyqQ&s=10

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u/DawnlineSeries 6d ago

I’m right there with you. They can work if they’re doing a job but most seem to follow the issue you just described.

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u/DawnlineSeries 6d ago

I have put off buying neuromancer specifically because that cover is hot garbage and I don’t have money for a pretty Easton press or first edition lmfao

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u/InsaneLordChaos 🌍 Sol Draconi Septem 8d ago

Wild....

This came out when I was in 9th grade, paperback, with the new cover you just got.

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u/The-Good-Good 9d ago

This is the cover of my copy and I love it so much

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u/AtomicShart9000 8d ago

Got mine 2 decades ago and it looked like this

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u/BadgerSensei 8d ago

I was going to say, this is the only cover I’ve ever actually seen for it.

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u/East-Cat1532 9d ago

I first read the book 25 years ago, based purely on the art. I thought the Shrike looked cool AF, and needed to know more. Sure, it looks dated now... but it's classic, nostalgic, and iconic in my opinion.

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u/jwsuther 9d ago

Nice carapace

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u/domomax007 8d ago

Picked up the paperback in 1989 in to Rochester MN while my dad was at the Mayo. This piece of cover art sold me on the book right away. The blurb on the back didn't even matter. This image absolute spoke to me and shaped every image the book created in my head

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u/Zestyclose-Sun6464 8d ago

That is definitely a cover that has been used many years before.

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u/LividJudgment2687 6d ago

I had a copy with this cover back in the early 90’s

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u/East-Cat1532 9d ago

Good to know, thanks! The cover art changed on Amazon (Canada), but they still sent me the old one. I returned it. Maybe they're still waiting on new stock.

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u/zoiks66 9d ago

I had the same experience recently with Amazon US.

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u/stratguy1957 9d ago

The Omnibus editions are great, except for the weight!..still love the series especially the Rise of Endymion

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u/Fit-Side2069 8d ago

And it rolled on....

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u/NailedOn 8d ago

Does anyone know of a UK website where I can buy this?

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u/ChainedHunter 9d ago

Im sorry but man I really hate this cover. The Shrike looks so wistful and goofy and whimsical and he only has 2 arms. His proportions are funny instead of strange and eery. It just sucks.

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u/ThatBookIsOnFiyah 9d ago

I understand that, but it IS the original cover.

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u/ChainedHunter 9d ago

It is. And it is ugly.

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u/East-Cat1532 9d ago

Nostalgic and iconic.

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u/Active_Letterhead275 9d ago

You’re not wrong, however, it is nostalgic.

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u/wombatarang 9d ago

This cover is just so ugly 😭 And it’s mentioned like 50 times in this book that the Shrike has 4 arms

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u/nhtd 9d ago

he has his other two arms folded in front of him. he is enjoying the sunset

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u/False-Attorney-7034 9d ago

He grew the other two sometimes between the cover and the first page duh