Divinci's cat parts 3 and 4

 Ch 17

Fred and bee talk about stuff.  They're gonna hang tonight and tomorrow they're gonna go see Raphael. 

Ch 18

Bee finds a pot to piss in while Fred is distracting his maid and tutor.

Ch 19

Fre dresses Bee so they can go see Raphael. 

Ch 20

They walk to Raphael and all the way people are calling Fred my lord and bowing and we run into the architect with all the keys that fred stole once when he overserved him and the pop, but herb never showed up so fred couldn't show him the Sistine chapel.  Michaelangelo shows up and insults the architect and they keep walking to Raphael.  Fred warns Bee that they're going through the pope's palace and to be competent.

Ch 21

Fred takes Bee to the aviary so she has a place to hang out until its late enough for them to sneak Raphael into the Sistine chapel.

Ch 22

SOOOO much drama in this chapter.  Fred goes back to his room and like ALL his people are here and they all scream at him for missing his lesons and they beat him for hiring this new page without asking them about it.  They have all heard the stories about Bee's horrible behavior and its gonna be real bad when they tell his parents.  

He waits til late and then gets Bee and goes to the chapel.  They use the key to get in.  But Michelangelo is there.  He throws a bucket and hits Raphael in the head.  Chaos ensues and Bee and Fred go back trough the cabinet to the future.  The first thing Fred sees in the future is an encyclopedia open to am entry on him saying his lifetime was 1500 to 1511.  That can't be good.

Ch 24 pg 197

Bee comes out of the closet and shes in herbs office but its wierd.  Its not dusty.  She goes downstairs and theres a man and a woman she doesnt know.  Shhe runs back upstairs and frantically tries to make phonecalls.  She finds Fred and she reads him  his encyclopedia entry.  It says he disappeared in 1511 and Michelangelo was the prime suspect and he fled to Florence and died a couple weeks later.  Also there's a 1942 calendar on the wall.

Part 4

Ch 25 pg 209

They go back through the wardrobe to 1511 and Fred bribes the stable man to let him borrow the fastest horse to chase after Michelangelo who he knows is headed to Florence thanks to the encyclopedia. 

Ch 26 pg 218

After Fred leaves a Swiss guard comes along and asks Bee what's going on.  She says she doesn't know and the guard grabs her and drags her down some stairs and throws her in a cell.

Ch 27 pg 225

Fred has a rough ride.  He's attacked by bandits twice.   He makes it to Michelangelo and gets a door slammed in his face for his trouble.

Ch 28 pg 233

Turns out Bee isn't in a prison cell, she's just in one of the dorm rooms for the Swiss guard. There's someone else in there with her.  It's Raphael. She has the key so she takes him to the sistine chapel. 

Ch 29 pg 240

Fred gets Michelangelo to return to Rome by explaining how famous he's going to be if he finishes painting the Sistine chapel. 

Ch 30 pg 248

Raphael draws Bee and signs it.  She's about to go through the wardrobe when Fred shows up.  She gives him the drawing to put in a chest so Herb can find it in the future. 

Ch 31

The Pope and the architect dismantle the cabinet cause its for spies and the pope doesnt wanna take any chances.  A swiss guard named Franz Giovanni comes along and with his carpentry background he agrees to turn the dismantled pieces of the cabinet into a trunk with a hidden compartment for Raphael's sketch of Bee.  Juno comes back.  Also the Swiss guard offers to become Fred's body guard since his time as a swiss guard is almost up.  Also somehow chocolate shows up.

Ch 32 Pg 267

They all live happily ever after. 

Divinci's cat parts 1 and 2

 Ch 1 

Frederico is a child prisoner of the pope to ensure his family's support.  He doesn't have any friends.  He does get the perk of interacting with some of the greatest artists of the time like Michelangelo and Raphael.  He gets a little excited when he realizes Michelangelo is spying on Raphael. But gossip isn't worth anything if you don't have a friend to tell.  He finds a kitten and he's super psyched. The kitten goes into a wardrobe and disappears.  Moments later there's a cat and Frederico decides that this is kitten all grown up.  The cat heads to the wardrobe and Frederico is like, no no that's way too dangerous. 

Ch 2

Frederico gets a collar for his cat.  He writes a short letter to his mom.  He inspects the wardrobe.  It's got mirrors and a ball full of water.  Federico thinks it's all about reflecting light.  But why would you go to the trouble when you can light a candle.  As he's inspecting,  cat gets away and goes into the wardrobe. A man comes out of the cabinet holding the cat and says nice to meet you 

Ch 3 pg 21

The man says he's herb from new jersey and the cat is named Juno. Frederico shows herb around and one of the paintings he sees is og herb.  Herb gives Frederico some chocolate.  With peanuts in it.  He makes Frederico a deal. If Frederico can get his hands on some of Michelangelo or Raphael's sketches, herb will buy them from him for chocolate.  To Fernando this is a no Brainer.  Trade what's essentially garbage for the most delicious food he's ever tasted.

Ch 4 pg 30

We find out that Juno is Divinci's cat. Frederico sneaks into the pope's office to steal a couple sketches to trade to herbert.  When he returns the mood is somber.   Some one has stolen all of Raphael's papers.

Ch 5

Herb is the stealer . But really Frederico doesn't care.  He's VERY morally flexible when chocolate is involved. Herb puts on what he thinks are fancy clothes and asks to meet Raphael. Frederico is like, hell no, that outfit sucks.  He will get herb clothes he can meet Raphael in, but it's gonna cost him ALot of chocolate. 

Ch 6 pg 46

Frederico takes Juno to see Raphael. He says sorry about the drawings that were stolen.  Raphael isn't bothered by it.   He'll just draw more.  The General idea seems to be that paintings are valuable and sketches are not.  This is reinforced when Frederico goes to see Michelangelo painting the sistene chappel and as soon as he has no further use for his sketches he tears them up into bits.  Frederico wishes he had those sketches to trade for chocolate. 

Ch 7 pg 54

Herbert comes with clothes that are now worthy of Frederico's standards.  He has a beard and Grey hair.  It's been 12 years for him.  He leaves to go see Raphael. He has a drawing that he needs to have signed so he can sell it for TONS of money.  Frederico tells him it's not safe.  Frederico follows herbert and there's a girl with the plague or something and a Swiss guard spots Frederico and drags him back to the pope abd herbert takes the girl back through the cabinet to the present cause he's all like, this girl ain't dying on my watch.

Ch 8 pg 62

The guy with all the keys is supping with the pope.  Frederico volunteers to serve them dinner rather than the normal servers.  He way overserves them wine and they both end up passing out.  He takes the keys so he can show herbert the sistene chappel. Not only doesn't herbert come, but Juno goes through the cabinet back to the future. 

Part 2

Ch 9 pg 72

Theres a girl named bee.  She and her.mom are staying at an old house where someone once found a drawing by Michelangelo that they sold for 6.5 mil.  Be catches a cat that caught a bird.  She takes the.cat to tue neighbors house and a scary old lady calls the cat Juno.

ch 10 pg 82

Crazy Italian lady is Herb's daughter.  So we're way in the future from where we used to be.  Crazy Italian lady has a drawing that looks JUST like bee that she claims was drawn by Raphael. 

Ch 11 pg 90

Bee is home alone cause mom is at her talk and moo is still on the train.  She is staring at the woman from Italy house and she swears she sees lights flicker in the morse code SOS pattern.  She calls mom and moo hoping one of them will give her permission to go over there.  They both say to stay put.

Ch 12 pg 98

She goes over to the woman from Italy house anyway cause she's an idiot child and this is what idiot children do when left to their own devices. 

She's fallen and she can't get up.  Bee calls her an ambulance. 

Ch 13 pg 106

Bee goes looking around the house after the woman from Italy is taken away.

Ch 14 pg 114

Bee finds the wardrobe and gets in and fully expects to be transported to Narnia.  But instead she's transported to darkness.

Ch 15 pg 121

Bee goes through the wardrobe and is sad to find Frederico instead of Mr Tumnus.  She quickly gathers the whole situation and the action item is Raphael needs to draw her.

Ch 16 pg 129

Old Italy smells bad.  Bee convinces Frederico to help her get drawn by Raphael and get gum to sign it.

Hyperion 6

 Pg 411

They're getting close to the time tubes.

They're gonna spend the night in some spooky place before they head in.  A couple fun things happen here.  They see true war fighting happening out in space.   It's a ways out in the solar system. So not really a danger to them.  But fun to watch like they're really distant fireworks if you ignore the whole people dying part.

Pg 421 

The consul's tale: remembering siri

The consul says before he can tell his story he's gotta tell someone else's story. So he puls put his zune and everyone listens to this other story about this other guy.

the.other guy is at a funeral.  Siri is dead.  He somehow has children that are older than him.

This other guy is a space cowboy.  He's got a contract on a ship that takes stuff to and from the new Maui colony.  When he was 19 he fell in love with siri when she was 16.  Relativity is hell  on a relationship. The next time he comes back he's 19 and she's 26. They talk to dolphins.

They go to the festival to party and the guys friend from the ship is there and there's some separatists that hate the shippers and his friend is killed by siri's cousin and our guy kills a bunch of separatists.

Pg 447

We're back at Siri's funeral.  Our guy is being encouraged to do a thing to wrap up the show.

our guy is named merin.  He 's on a fishing boat with Siri.  She's 70 years old.  She 's worried about whats going to happen to the planet when they turn on the farcaster and her pla net joins the hegemony.

He says politicians and scientists and other friends will come.  It will get ugly when the petroleum industry comes.  She's surprised they haven't moved past there being a petroleum industry.  Merin has a great line "No one gets beyond a petroleum economy.  Not when there's Petroleum."

Pg 454

Back to siri's funeral again.  The tomb is empty.  His son tells him she was cremated.  There's a secret box for him.  It has a bomb.  A bomb that Siri has given him to blow up the farcaster.  He does.

Pg 461

We're back on hyperion watching the space battle.

Consul explains that he's merin and Siri's grandson.  Merin made this recording before he went off to die fighting the hegemony. Now the consul is going to tell his story. 

The consul's story is a hoot.  His father became a senator when pretty much the rest of the family joined the rebellion.  But really he and the consul have always been part of the Maui rebellion.   The consul, due to his dad's influence,  gets a sweet job being consul on far out worlds.  I don't remember the details,  but he does stuff thats impressive to the point where he can pretty much go wherever.   So he goes to some world where he can communicate with the ousters.  He finds out fun things like the technocore destroyed earth with a black hole.  They come up with a scheme to release the shrike, which will somehow be good for the ousters. It doesn't go great for the ousters cause they show up to do the thing and the consul kills them and turns on the machine to free the shrike.  I guess the idea is the shrike will kill the technocore.  Idk.

So now we're in the present and the group is discussing how to Best kill this traitor. They decide not to.

Pg 476 epilogue

They all hold hands and sing "We're off to see the Wizard" as they make their way to the Shrike.

The Black Prism ch 36 - 64

 Ch 36 pg 211 Gavin

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Gavin tells Devin that he found his bastard child. 

But it's not Devin's bastard child, it's Gavin's bastard child. Because Gavin is Devin.  In their final battle Devin assumed Gavin's identity.  Awesome. 

He runs into the white.  She tells him he's late for class.  He asks about the girl from Kip's village. She is the daughter of Devin's old General.  Makes it even more exciting now that Gavin is Devin.

Ch 37 pg 218 Kip

Kip goes to testing.  The guy doing the testing punches him.  Then some other guy comes in and throws that guy out.  Then a girl comes in and they do a bunch of tests to see how well he can see colors.  He is perfect.  He's a super color seer.  Then iron fist comes and and is all WTF, I told the other guy to put him through the thresher.  The other testers are like, fuck no and Iron fist is like fuck yes, this kid is leaving with the prism tomorrow amd needs to be put through the thresher now.  Everyone else is like who is this kid that makes him so special.  Kip blurts out that he's gavins son.  Everyone is now amenable to the thrasher.

Ch 38 pg 229 Liv

Liv and her class are walking up a steep staircase to class at the top of a tower.  Gavin is there.  Shenhannegans ensue and the punchline is that Gavin ( who's really Devin and was super good friends with her father ) recognizes her as a bichrome and this instantly makes her life infinitely better.  

Ch 39 pg 238 Gavin

Gavin is a little crazy.  Being locked up all alone for a long time will do that to you.  But learning of his son has given him hope.  He is able to make a blue blade and cut off his red hair and somehow this is going to help him escape.

Ch 40 pg 242 Devin (he calls himself Gavin but he's really Devin.)

Gavin meets with the color guard and telks them they have to give the city of garrison back to the tyreans or their new king is going to take it by force.  They vote to send an investigatory group there.  It will take two months to go, investigate and return.

Ch 41 pg 255 liv

Liv got a loan so she could pay back the people that were paying for her color magic training. The lady is not pleased by this.  She says either Liv spies on the the prism or she's gonna ruin liv's life.  Liv gives her the money and tells her to fuck off or die.  The bad lady leaves.  Shortly after there's a knock on her door.  Luv us gonna kill this chick.  But it's not her.  It's the prisms slave with a message, come at your earliest convenience. She doesn't know what to wear.  So she says fuck it and just goes in her work clothes.

Ch 42 pg 263 Karris

She and the general (who everyone thinks is dead cause everyone else in their village is) are trying to go after the Tyrean Army. A scout spots them and they try to take them down before they can get word back.  But it's a trap abd karis us captured.  The General might have hit her over the head.

Ch 43 pg 269 kip

He goes through the thrasher.  It sucks.  You're basically tortured until you pull the rope.  Only one person ever didn't pull the rope.  Dazen.  The real point of the thresher is that while you're being tortured your inner oovra comes out in your fear and from that they can see what colors you can draft.

Ch 44 pg 281 Liv

Liv goes to see Devin (who everyone thinks is Gavin) and he asks her to tutor Kip and keep him humble.  Then he f

Uses color magic to fly them down to the courtyard near the testing chamber.  He blurts out some orders and goes inside.

Ch 45 pg 290 gavin

Gavin yells at the girl that put the rope back in in Kip's hand.  Kip tested positive for blue and green and inconclusive for superviolet.  Gavin did something to the testing stone with ultraviolet.  Not sure exactly what. Gavin brings in Liv and she take Kip to his room.

Ch 46 pg 298 kip

Liv tries to take kip to his room.  She realizes she has no idea where that would be so they go to her room instead.  He tells her about the town and he thinks her dad is dead.  She doesn't believe it.  Her dad is a badass, if Kip got out, he got out too. She's right, but Kip doesn't know this.

Ch 47 pg 306 Dazen

His dad doesn't know he's not Gavin.  You'd expect his dad might want to talk about his bastard grand son Kip.  Nope, not interested at all.  His main priority is to see that he got the white luxin dagger.  He assumes this must be a super important thing his dad and Gavin used to talk about.  EVERYTHING depends on the white luxin dagger.  A dagger thay Dazen didn't know existed until right now and so he lies to his dad and says he just didn't think that the random box the king claimed Kip's mother stole from him would house a white luxin dagger.

Dazen"s dad over extended himself in the prism war and now has to live in complete darkness.

So Dazen has his marching orders.  Go to garrison,  do whatever you want with the town, but kill the king and get the white luxin dagger.  Then when he brings it back to his dad, he'll find him a good woman to settle down with.

Ch 48 pg 314

Liv's best friend finds her and tells her she's being thrown out of hogwarts.  Her supporter lost money or whatever.  It's all bs.  This was the doing of Liv's old supporter who's just the worst.  She says she's bought her feiends contract and she's gonna end up being a whore on a galley until she's likely killed as that's what usually happens to women on galleys. So Liv says she'll spy on the prism for her.

Ch 49 pg 319 Dazen

Dazen's mother knows he's Dazen.  She has helped him to be Gavin.  He's shared most things with her as she's the only one that he can be honest with.  But he told her Gavin was dead.  So he doesn't tell her everything. 

Ch 50 pg 326 kip

Kip wakes up on liv's floor.  There's a lady that tries to.kill him.  It doesn't work out.  It especially doesn't work out when Liv shows up and does something so cool I'm going to explain it.  She sends a line of ultraviolet luxin to the lady's face.  Then she sends a bead of yellow luxin along that string and it explodes in her face.  Using her newly authorized yellow powers, she can make gun happen whenever she wants.  Physical violence is cool.  I could totally see that happening in slow motion on the TV show on HBO that my cousin should work on.

Ch 51 pg 332

Gavin (don't forget he's really Dazen) is talking to the white.  He's going to Garrison. She speaks to the impractical nature of this idea cause it's gonna take so long.  Then she kinda tricks him into telling her his flying speedboat trick.  Knowing it'll be fast, she's no longer arguing against this.  They also talk about Kip's trst and what Gavin did and I still don't understand. But if in the end there's fatherly love involved, it'll all be worth it.

Ch 52 pg 337 Karris 

Karris and the king talk.  He wants to marry her.

Ch 53 pg 344

Kip tells Gavin about the murder attempt.  Gavin says it's time to get the fuck out of dodge. Liv is coming with. 

Ch 54 pg 349

Gavin is trying to escape.  He's woven something out of his own hair and he channeled enough blue to cut his chest open and shove the woven hair thing in.  Somehow this will result in either escape or death.

Ch 55 pg 351

They're packing up to leave.  

Ironfist nakes Kip also carry Liv's pack.  Its more complicated for girls.

Ironfist is famous so it's a bit awkward for kip walking through the city cause people keep slowing down to stare at him.  But they get to the docks and Gavin is there and people don't slow down to stare at him, they stop completely. Tons of people trying to get close enough to touch his robes as he walks by.

Kip thinks to himself "What am I doing with these people?"

 The four of them hit the open sea 🌊 

Ch 56 pg 357

There is a pirate ship.  They destroy it.

Ch 57 pg 364

They make it to garrison and make their introduction to the docmaster and Liv and kip are sent away while Gavin and iron fist take care of business. 

Ch 58 pg 370

Liv teaches kip some stuff and gives him a pair.of green glasses.

Ch 59 pg 377

As we are aware, Liv's dad is alive.  He makes his way to garrison and talks his way into the palace and meets Gavin.  I'm so happy for Liv. 

Ch 60 pg 385

Corvan Danavis knows that Gavin is really Dazen.  So really this is a tearful reunion of old friends.  But they can't show that in public.  So they hatch a scheme that Corvan will be in charge of the Army to defend the town against the king's assault.  But they're both gonna be real begrudging about the whole thing to keep up appearances that this is a marriage of convenience at a desperate time.  Corvan also tells Dazen about Karris being captured and while Dazen is a but worried, he's confident she'll be ok in the end.  Dazen doesn't tell Corvan about Liv or Kip, but he sends them down to the room they're in.

Ch 61 pg 393

Liv is trying to teach Kip more theory. This whole thing is Hella awkward. If Kip could do me a favor and try to be friends with Liv and focus on the work and forget about his childhood crush I'd really appreciate it.  But I feel that about basically every boy in every fantasy novel.  I'm gonna have to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. 

Liv's dad shows up and somehow it makes things even more awkward. 

Ch 62 pg 398

Gavin gets kip, says they're going for a walk.  He says he doesn't eat until he's made a green luxin ball.  There's a fun thing where a wagon has broken down and they think they're gonna have to shut down that gate for the day, which is gonna suck.  Gavin saves the day.  Everyone loves him.  ❤️ 

Kip doesn't get to eat yet cause he hasn't created a green ball yet.

Ch 63 pg 409

Liv doesn't like this whole situation. From her perspective Gavin killed her mom and no matter what she and her dad should hate him forever because of that.  Especially when the people their going to fight is their country's. 

We know that he knows that Gaven is really Dazen and that's why he's happy to lead the army this time. But he can't tell her.

Ch 64 pg 416

Kip is having a heck of a time creating a green ball.  Gavin tells him the key word for green is wild.  The governor shows up and starts to complain at Gavin.  Kip has a lot of negative thoughts and feelings and I don't know how but that brings out his wild side and he creates the ball.  Then he goes nuts and throws the ball at the governor. It's far more forceful than he expected. One of the governor's guards comes after him with a sword.  A blue luxin wall appears and kip is saved.  The governor demands satisfaction and Gavin demands that he fuck right off.  Iron fist was the one that made the blue wall that saved him.

In bert we trust

 

Hyperion section 5

 Section 5 pg 311

They hear bad noises and go to the captain's room to check it out.  There's a human body's worth of blood in the room.  We're gonna assume he's dead, presumably killed by the Shrike. 

They make it to the end of the road with the sail wagon and now they're in a tram car that's gonna take them somewhere.   There's mountainss involves.  The lady detective oa gonna tell her story.

The detective's tale: the long good bye.  Pg 325

She's hired by a beautiful man to solve his own murder.  Turns out he's an AI.  Nit just that, an AI that was built around the writing of Keats.  There's your hyperion connection. 

The AI calls himself Johnny. She's following his credit card receipts to see where they lead.  She ends up in a dive bar and shows an old gross man Johnny's picture and says if you've seen this guy, it's your lucky day.  His response is priceless.   "If it is, itll be he first time ina long fucking time."

She follows leads that go nowhere.  Johnny calls her to tell her that someone tried to kill him again.  They go on adventures.  They engage in physical congress.   Someone tries to kidnap Johnny in the night.  She stops them.  She tortures one who tells her the shrike temple sent them.  They take their car to the empire state building and there's a portal that takes them to the shrike temple.

The guy at the temple says that Johnny has previously agreed to make the pilgrimage to Hyperion. This must have happened in Johnny's missing week.  Also, the other ai robot they killed that tried to kill Johnny has been introduced as Johnny's body guard.  So they were worried Johnny was getting cold feet and they sent thugs to make sure Johnny followed through. 

Johnny explains some techno babble stuff to detective that makes this all seem unlikely. 

But now he understands why he wanted to go there because he'd have to be a person to do so and he wants that.  Someone doesn't want him to and has tried to kill him at least twice to stop him.  But he's determined to do it.  So they try.  The turning into a human thing works.  Also he has implanted a super chip in the detective's head in case he needs to send her a lot.of data real quick.  This is pretty much foreshadowing as trying to get to the shrike temple Johnny is killed.  But before he's full on dead he transfers himself into the detective's head. So he didn't technically make it to Hyperion,  but he will kind  of make it to Hyperion in her head.  Oh, also, that's his baby she's pregnant with.

Hyperion sectons 2 throught 4

 Section2 pg 100

They land on hyperion and things are fucked. The shrike is killing people left and right and everyone has come to the capitol city to try to get off the planet.  The group is a bit conflicted as to what to do.  They go to a bar.  A robot comes and says to follow them.  So they do.

Pg 114

The robot takes them to a badge and they are floating down the river. It's gonna take them six days to get where they're going.  So it.s story time and fedmahn kassad is gonna tell his story.

Pg 118 the soldiers tale: the war lovers

Kassad is in a military training Sim where he's an English bowman and they're outnumbered 3 to 1 by the french.

Pg 121

Kassad is about to get killed in the woods by a French knight.   Then a woman whacks the Frenchman and right next to his dead body they make love.

This repeats itself several times in many different simulations.  He kills people, this lady finds him and they make love.

Fast forward a ways and he's fighting the ousters.  I guess they're people but with squid tentacles.  Anyway he's fighting and dieing and getting resecitated and long story short he ends up on hyperion and she's there and the shrike is there and its explained to him they can use the t8me tunels to go back in time.  the shrike slows down time so he can kill all the ousters and they make love and right before he is finished she turns into metal and tries to kill him and somehow he gets away.

Section 3 pg 175

The  poet

He was born on earth.  This was a time where natural birth was highly regulated.  If you went out to space you can have all the sex babies you want. But not on earth.

The poet ended up getting shipped off by his mom to a distant planet in a slow moving ship in a get rich "quick" scheme with the theory that by the time he got there his investments would have matured and he'd me rich.  It didn't work out.  Also the cryo didn't work great and he came to missing a lot of brain function. It came back and his writing was "discovered" and he had a long relatively successful career. Until eventually he ended up on hyperion. He started researching and writing poetry about the shrike and shortly after, the shrike appears and starts killing people.

The King has the city evacuated.  There's a couple hundred people that stay.  They all end up dead except for the poet.  There's a final scene with King Billy and the poet and the shrike in the time tubes where the king is killed by the Shrike.

Section 4 pg 232

There's some drama on their adventure.   They have to pass through the giant gr a ss sea.  A wind ship should have been there when they got off the boat.   It eventually showed up. There's no people on it.  Must be automated.   Someone suggests they sleep.  They say it's too weird and they won't be able to sleep. So it's story time again. 

Og 244 the scholar

The scholar starts by downplaying their own story stating they have not had a dramatic meeting with the shrike.

They are a professor at a college on a planet that is described as if it's Iowa.  Flat and wide and full of corn.

He gets married and has a daughter.  That daughter grows up and becomes an archeologists and goes to Hyperion. He has a dream where "god" tells him he needs to go to Hyperion and sacrifice his daughter for the good of the universe. 

The daughter is investigating the structure people refer to as the sphinx. Something weird happens and the equipment all stops working and the walls start closing in and she wakes up in a hospital on another planet.  Her parents come and the doctors tell them she's somehow aging backwards.  They try all sorts of things for the next thirty years.  The next interesting thing that happens is the scholars wife tells him she has the same dream where God tells her to sacrifice their daughter.  He tells her she needs to go to Hyperion and sacrifice herself.  She dies in a car crash on the way.  The scholar goes on TV with his daughter and begs people to contact everyone they can to allow them to go to the time tunnels. 

This part kinda got me a little emotional.  It was like that part in avengers when black widow is fighting some evil lady and she says "you're all alone" and then you hear a voice say "she's not alone" and all the ladies jump in and they win the fight.

 Next thing he's on a ship that takes them to the tree ship ygrissil headed to hyperion. 

 That's right, the guy with the baby is the scholar and the baby is his daughter that's really over sixty years old and they're on the wind boat going across the grass sea.  Baller.

As they're hanging out, they see lights in the sky.  They pull out some binoculars and see the tree ship yygraskle get shot out of the sky.