![]() The scope and vision behind this novel are grand, although I do get the sense that Simmons simply wanted to retell the Iliad for the Star Wars generation and used science fiction so that he wouldn’t get laughed at by literary critics. “ will leave most readers waiting breathlessly for the next installment.utterly addictive. But Simmons’s Ilium may be the most impressive of the lot. On Earth, a small band of the few remaining humans pursues a lost past and devastating truth - as four sentient machines depart from Jovian space to investigate, perhaps terminate, the potentially catastrophic emissions emanating from a mountaintop miles above the terraformed surface of the Red Planet. And if that isnt intimidation enough, hes a handsome devil too. ![]() ![]() Even after a career that spans 19 years, 23 novels and collections, and about a zillion short stories and articles, his gift for invention is unpredictable, seemingly superhuman and limitless. The Trojan War rages at the foot of Olympos Mons on Mars - observed and influenced from on high by Zeus and his immortal family - and twenty-first-century professor Thomas Hockenberry is there to play a role in the insidious private wars of vengeful gods and goddesses. Dan Simmons is a writer who seems unable to limit himself to a particular niche or genre. ![]()
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