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Even in the still shadowed places, glowbirds nestled like Japanese lanterns above lighted walkways, glowing swingvines, and illuminated hanging bridges, while fireflies from Old Earth and radiant gossamers from Maul-Covenant blinked and coded their way through labyrinths of leaves, mixing with constellations sufficiently to fool even the most starwise traveler.†
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Why choose them when there are big mysteries to study on Hyperion...like the labyrinths!†
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But the labyrinths have their researchers and admirers throughout the Web, Lenar, and the tunnels have been there-on all nine worlds-for how long?†
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I had found an entrance to Hyperion's labyrinth.†
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I was interested in the Bikura-actually more in the self-inflicted pain of my own exile-not the labyrinths or their builders.†
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Nine worlds have labyrinths.†
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There are planetary archaeohistorians who devote their lives to the study of the labyrinths.†
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The labyrinths were dug...tunneled...created more than three quarters of a million standard years ago.†
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On Svoboda, not far from Pacem's system, over eight hundred thousand kilometers of labyrinth have been explored by remotes.†
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No legend or artifact of the Labyrinth Builders has survived.†
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He made an awkward, open-handed gesture which seemed to include the labyrinth, cave wall, and scores of glowing crosses embedded there.†
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I speculated on what, if anything, their presence here had to do with the labyrinth and on the aeons necessary to raise this plateau so the river and canyon could slice through one of the tunnels.†
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As far as we could tell, the entrance to the labyrinth and the so-called basilica also must have been destroyed in the landslide.†
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The Consul walked close to the edge of a pit and wondered if the deep basements had-as legend decreed-actually connected to one of the planet's labyrinths.†
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He began to pull himself carefully back through the labyrinth of twisted metal, fighting the adrenaline fear-surge that made him want to kick off screaming through the darkness.†
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Even the traces of other intelligent life we have found-the blimps on Jove II, the Labyrinth Builders, the Seneschai empaths on Hebron, the Stick People of Durulis, the architects of the Time Tombs, the Shrike itself-have left us mysteries and obscure artifacts but no language.†
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Mechs are sent into the labyrinth entrance at the base of the Jade Tomb and report nothing in a six-thousand-kilometer probe.†
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Will you be going to the labyrinth or the artifacts called the Time Tombs?†
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The persona template becomes self-aware...I don't mean just self-aware, like you and me, but self-aware that it's an artificially self-aware persona-and that leads to terminal Strange Loops and nonharmonic labyrinths that go straight to Escher-space.†
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Six Chronos Keep jutted from the easternmost rim of the great Bridle Range: a grim, baroque heap of sweating stones with three hundred rooms and halls, a maze of lightless corridors leading to deep halls, towers, turrets, balconies overlooking the northern moors, airshafts rising half a kilometer to light and rumored to drop to the world's labyrinth itself, parapets scoured by cold winds from the peaks above, stairways— inside and out-carved from the mountain stone and leading nowhere, stained-glass windows a hundred meters tall set to catch the first rays of solstice sun or the moon on midwinter night, paneless windows the size of a man's fist looking out on nothing in particular, an endles†
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(1) (labyrinth)
a maze (a complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost)

or (figuratively): anything so complicated that it is extremely confusing

The word "labyrinth" comes from the name of the maze of passages where, in Greek mythology, Theseus had to escape from the Minotaur.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, labyrinth can refer to a complex anatomical system of interconnecting cavities -- especially the inner ear

labyrinth in Hyperion (Auto-generated)

labyrinth
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Hyperion
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