Travel to the Buddhist planet T'ien Shan creates a 5-year time debt, and Aenea is 21 when she and Raul reunite. The four almost catch up with Raul, but they are intercepted by the Shrike. On God's Grove, three cyborgs retrieve Radamanth Nemes. When she is sixteen, Aenea tells Raul to leave Earth and retrieve the Consul's ship. On Old Earth, Aenea becomes a teacher, instructing others about "the Void which Binds". Father de Soya finds the murder of Ouster children unconscionable, and he mutinies. On Pacem, Lenar Hoyt (now known as Pope Urban XVI) announces a new Crusade against the Ousters.
Raul is still imprisoned and writing his memoirs of his time with Aenea. However, other worlds resist Pax control, with independence movements springing up on worlds with different religious and philosophical traditions. The world Hyperion has been assimilated into the Pax. However, the TechnoCore fears that Aenea, daughter of a human being and a TechnoCore intelligence, will destroy their hold on 31st-century society. The Core provides the Church with cruciforms, which allow humans to be resurrected and gain functional immortality. The Church and the Pax have secretly been collaborating with representatives of the TechnoCore. At the time of this novel, the Roman Catholic Church has formed the Pax, an administrative entity that formalizes the Church's control and implements a theocracy. The Rise of Endymion is set more than 275 years after the fall of the Hegemony of Man, an interstellar organization connected by farcaster portals. It won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1998. It is the fourth and final novel in his Hyperion Cantos fictional universe. The Rise of Endymion is a 1997 science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons.
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