Hyperion and boring techno futures

I’ve been going through some of the sci-fi books that I read as a kid — books that had been sitting in my parents’ garage for the last twenty-plus years. It’s a small library — the usual stuff you’d find on the shelves of teenage sci-fi head: Stars My Destinations, Ender’s Game, The Forever War, Mars trilogy, a bunch of stuff by Heinlein, Greg Bear, Urs…