The Hyperion/Endymion quadrilogy is gloriously good. Did you enjoy it?

Honestly, meh. Definitely not one of my fav series... For me it felt like the serie didn't know if they wanted to go full SF or that they were trying to pull in some mystical stuff and we end up with a lot unexplained, which I didn't appreciate.

Aah I quite like mysticism approaches sometimes :D The reverse-time-travel things were really interesting to me as a way to look across mysticism as well.

Well, the problem is that finally we kinda understand that a war in the future was "brought back". However, that doesn't explain the "bears and the tigers" which seem to control the universe but not be part of the war. A lot of unexplained.

I kinda thought of those as thought-entities running on a compute substrate which was out of "phase" with normal space. But it has been many years since I last read those books :D

The commonwealth sage was much better on the "thought-entities" part. I really liked their approach on the topic.

Commonwealth is a good series yes. In general PFH does a good job of explaining things without deus-ex-machina type situations.

Mostly yes. Even though I hated the serie about SF and ghosts.

You strike me as someone who perhaps gets on better with Greg Egan then :D

I didn't know this author. Gonna add him to my list.