shrike

His Shrike Commander was miss-fueled with jet fuel instead of avgas because it was mistaken for the the larger turboprop model.

They better do an amazing job with the Shrike if they ever do this adaptation.

I didn't know there was a type of bird called a shrike until long after I read Hyperion.

The Shrike and the story of Paul Duré still haunt my sci-fi dreams.

I find it awesome that the true nature and mission of the Shrike remains a secret.

The Shrike certainly has some deep soul searching to do here.

I was so excited for Shrike to come out the next year.

The most interesting and evil manifestation of AI I think has to be the Shrike from Dan Simmons' Hyperion and by extension the TechnoCore which created it.

The classic example of this was Bob Hoover, who poured iced tea in his Rockwell Shrike Commander twin-engine propeller airplane while completing a barrel roll with both engines shut down (gliding).

And I think the Young Ladies Illustrated Primer is one of the all-time most interesting technological plot contrivances (the Imago machine, game/civilization of Azad, and Shrike all providing strong competition).

I don't think any of the birds in the header image are actually named after people (loggerhead shrike, Eurasian sparrowhawk, Eurasian tree sparrow, and I'm not good with owls but I think it's a little owl.

Like McCarthy’s The Road, so much of the horror in Hyperion comes from what is left to the imagination, like the terror of the shrike; and that which is internal to the characters, like the pain of the cross.

I liked all of the Hyperion/Shrike novels, except when Raul Endymion persistently refers to the heroine/love-interest as "my young friend", or similar phrasing - slightly creepy/boring.

The "knife tree", the unholy offspring of The Shrike and the Tree of Pain in Dan Simmons' "Hyperion"...

I can be quite the little shrike when it comes to political discussions, and I often manage to undermine my own point with my approach - although I think you have just managed a pretty great "the worst of" collection!

It just have been a decade since I've read Hyperion and I'm still scared of the Shrike.

Has all of the elements of a good sci-fi world: AI, interconnected worlds via a farcaster network, and a mythical creature called the Shrike.

Also, it would destroy everybody's personal vision of the Shrike...