... I see them as nice continuations, but are def different bcs of how the story is set up (then again, so is Hyperion to the rest of the cantos).

That's a dead dragon carcass, worship it.

Great, a short joke targeting children!
They are children!

/s

Give them to a nerd that will appreciate & keep them.

Of yeah, actually these kinda belong with the Hyperions, so first these next :D (when I irl bought Hyperion books the settler insisted on gifting me these to keep them together :)).

... fine, noted, seems now I have to read these.

Absolutely incredible, I’m disappointed knowing I’ll be done with it soon.

Hyperion was def one of those series that I was sad to finish, like, it impacted me that "how tf can there be no more of it" way more than the norm.

Simmons in general has a very wide variety of topics in genres & Hyperion alternates them nicely (while never really leaving sci-fi).

any suggestions

Maybe as a short palette cleanser 'The Terror' by the same author? It's completely different, but nicely done. I've read a few more books by Simmons after Hyperion & this one stood out* a bit more (it's not as polished as Hyperions, but much more than the rest I've read - overall easy to read, I like it when the setting/spaces are always explained, and most importantly it's one of those stories that I gladly let live in my mind).
Warning: it has one instance of horse riding! But it's in horny a flashback :). It's a historical fantasy with good semifictional characters, really tasteful blend of actual Inuit stories, historical nautical facts, & authors own derived reality of both, also one of the top tier "monsters" ever ... and the Hyperion-style technical description that make sense of the basically literal alien world (the same story could have been set in planet exploration).
[*Edit: I completely forgot about Ilium & Olympos. Those are sort of more of the sci-fi with the expected classical twist, but I stand by my Terror recommendation too, it just lacks interplanetary travel.]

The real suggestion (and I can't/am unable to explain why the association in my mind) is the Rama series by Arthur C. Clarke. It's prob one of the top easiest writer/books for me to read (the way things are explained & which things are explained, how characters act, etc). It's nicely logical & absurdity fantastical without it ever being fantastical for the sake of being fantastical (ie the big amazing things always make sense & don't seem forced or unlikely).

Whoa, I would have never guessed bigfoot onlyfans was so unpopular - at last it's a steady following.

(But it makes sense competing with giant tentacles.)

Stewart and Colbert,
together where the rivers join.

As apes together strong,
before the reptile house.

Yeah, the "super cheap" mentality towards something that affects the profits at a 0.00something% is super annoying (whilst acting like it's the end of the world, and with their rising profits above inflation).

... it doesn't have to be a desktop, eg you might want to install a banking app on your fridge.

Is this study (afaik published in 2018, but the paper is different to the 2021 one?) distinct from the others? I'm guessing they detailed the "electric" part better?

Edit:
Ohhh, it was about electric fields specifically. The 2018 paper only had airflow, they ar added/experimented with electric fields in the next study (it wasn't new, just nobody tested it):

However, a recent experiment showed that exposure to an electric field alone can induce spiders’ pre-ballooning behaviours (tiptoe and dropping/dangling) and even pulls them upwards in the air. The controversy between explanations of ballooning by aerodynamic flow or the earth’s electric field has long existed.

More from wiki/Ballooning_(spider):

It is observed in many species of spiders, such as Erigone atra, Cyclosa turbinata, as well as in spider mites (Tetranychidae) and in 31 species of lepidoptera, distributed in 8 suborders. Bell and his colleagues put forward the hypothesis that ballooning first appeared in the Cretaceous. A 5-year-long research study in the 1920s–1930s revealed that 1 in every 17 invertebrates caught mid-air is a spider. Out of 28,739 specimens, 1,401 turned out to be spiders.

Although this phenomenon has been known since the time of Aristotle, the first precise observations were published by the arachnologist John Blackwall in 1827. Several studies have since made it possible to analyze this behavior. One of the most important and extensive studies exploring ballooning was funded by U.S. Department of Agriculture and performed between 1926 and 1931 by a group of scientists. The findings were published in 1939 in a 155-page bulletin compiled by P. A. Glick.

It seems more researchers were electrifying spiders (links to older studies):

A 2018 study concluded that electric fields provide enough force to lift spiders in the air, and possibly elicit ballooning behavior.[1], [2]

The Earth's static electric field may also provide lift in windless conditions.[9], [10] Ballooning behavior may be triggered by favorable electric fields.[11], [12]

Wiki also has a pic from Cho's paper (2018):

TIL:

Some mites and some caterpillars also use silk to disperse through the air.

... also I'm 100% sure the spiders let out a tiny 'wiiiiii' when they get airborne ...