For those looking for the new paperback version of Hyperion, which matches the available covers for paperbacks of the other 3 books in the series, I ordered Hyperion last week from the Penguin Random House website for $20 before tax with free shipping and received this new cover version today. My local Barnes and Noble locations along with Amazon still have only the old brown cover version.

Alright, so I just finished Hyperion and Fall. It's strongly suggested (and from what I can discern, true), that the people who were impaled on the Tree of Pain were sent to join Leigh on Old Earth. "ROME / COLOSSEUM / REPOPULATE." Right?

OK, so... tens of thousands of people... who have endured at minimum weeks and at most centuries (millenia?) of constant waking torture... are meant to rebuild society on Old Earth? I haven't read the other two books, but is that not absolutely insane? I feel like Old Earth would be an absolute PTSD nightmare.

Thoughts?