Dan Simmons
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| Original Title: | Olympos |
| ISBN: | 0380817934 (ISBN13: 9780380817931) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Ilium #2, Ilium/Olympos #4 |
| Characters: | Odysseus, Hector of Troy, Achilles (Greek hero), Hockenberry, Mahnmut, Orphu |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (2006) |
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Librarian's Note: Alternate Edition with same isbn & isbn 13: January 2011THE EXTRAORDINARY AND MAGNIFICENT EPIC CONCLUSION TO THE HUGO AWARD-NOMINATED ILIUM
Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative, but that was before twenty-first century scholar Thomas Hockenberry stirred the bloody brew, causing an enraged Achilles to join forces with his archenemy Hector and turn his murderous wrath on Zeus and the entire pantheon of divine manipulators; before the swift and terrible mechanical creatures that catered for centuries to the pitiful idle remnants of Earth's human race began massing in the millions, to exterminate rather than serve.
And now all bets are off.
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| Title | : | Olympos (Ilium #2) |
| Author | : | Dan Simmons |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 891 pages |
| Published | : | July 25th 2006 by Harper Voyager (first published 2005) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy. Mythology. Science Fiction Fantasy. Space. Space Opera. Speculative Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.94 From 15545 Users | 636 ReviewsWrite-Up Epithetical Books Olympos (Ilium #2)
This was too long, but so worth the long hours.The sequel to Dan Simmons' epic sci-fi space opera "Ilium", "Olympos" continues the story of 21st-century Professor Thomas Hockenberry, who has inexplicably been resurrected on Mars to be an observer of the Trojan War. Confused? So is he, and so is the reader for a considerable amount of time. Thankfully, in the deft hands of consummate storyteller Simmons, we begin to piece together what is happening in the universe. It's the distant future, and the Greek Gods have all returned to set up their
Welllll... I just can't get excited about this book now that it's over. After wading through 900 dense pages of literary influenced sci-fi, I feel a little cheated by where we ended up. Harman's journey into what was supposed to be the Earth's past (our future, I guess) was pretty dull considering the tantalizing hints Simmons drops. I love the idea, for example, that a Global Caliphate arose sometime in the 22nd Century, developed time travel and quantum spacetime science, and destroyed the
"Helen of Troy awakes just before dawn to the sound of air raid sirens."Hour 1 of the 37 hour-long audiobook:Not impressed with the narrator. Another 36 hours, sigh. The Greeks are a silly lot. Glad to have made it past the first few chapters and to Hockenberry.Hour 2... mostly bored. The gods are not much of an improvement over the Greeks.Hour 5. Oh my goodness, another 32 hours of this... Greek gods in a SF setting really do feel silly. Especially when this inept. And Simmons description of
If you ever plan to read the Ilium duo-logy then i recommend doing it back-to-back. I picked up Olympos 18 months after Ilium and experienced a great deal of confusion. My usual go-to Wikipedia let me down so i resorted to finding spoiler reviews, which gave me snippets of names, events and what went down. I would still need to re-read Ilium to fully appreciate Olympos.It continues in the same vein as Ilium with the three story lines still separate but slowly making their way to the inevitable
I almost couldn't believe this book was written by the same author as Hyperion and Ilium. The various plots meandered while none of the big mysteries were answered. And where did all the misogynism come from? Simmons has always written such strong female characters. Suddenly Helen of Troy is calling herself a cunt and the formerly powerful/strong modern-day human female characters are suddenly crying and moody all of the time, while the men take front-seat on the adventures. And the Goddesses
Mind-blowing, adrenaline-pumping, world-expanding science fiction at its very best. Dan Simmons has big ideas and grand schemes, and he is never content to simply tell a story; no, he must weave it into our own reality in a seamless fashion, reaching backward and forward in time and literature. In this story (Im grouping the previous book, Ilium, into the story), he brings together Shakespeare, Homer, Proust, quantum teleportation, terraforming, robots, and so much more. Each new bit that
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