- Hardcover: 704 pages
- Publisher: Eos (Jun 16 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0380978946
- ISBN-13: 978-0380978946
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 15.7 x 4.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #349,200 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Welcome back to the Trojan War gone 'round the bend. Hector and Achilles have joined forces against the Olympic Gods. Back on a future Earth, assorted creatures from Shakespeare's The Tempest get ready to rumble in a winner-takes-the-universe battle royale. And amid it all, a group of confused mere mortals with their classically trained robot allies (from Jupiter no less) race across time and space to keep from getting squashed as the various Titans of the Western Canon square off. Confused? It's all part of Dan Simmons's Olympos, a novel one part fun-with-quantum-physics and two parts through-the-looking-glass survey of Western Literature. Picking up where he left off in the high-wire act Ilium, Simmons doesn't disappoint. Not only is Olympos excellent hard science fiction and grand space opera, it's a riveting and fast-paced book that is alternately shocking, thrilling, and often deftly hilarious as his hapless human creations wrestle the forces of literary history itself. Be sure to read Ilium first, though. That and a more than passing familiarity with The Illiad might come in handy for the journey to Mars, Ilium's far-off shores, and the Earth that might be. --Jeremy Pugh
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Drawing from Homer's Iliad, Shakespeare's Tempest and the work of several 19th-century poets, Simmons achieves another triumph in this majestic, if convoluted, sequel to his much-praised Ilium (2003). Posthumans masquerading as the Greek gods and living on Mars travel back and forth through time and alternate universes to interfere in the real Trojan War, employing a resurrected late 20th-century classics professor, Thomas Hockenberry, as their tool. Meanwhile, the last remaining old-style human beings on a far-future Earth must struggle for survival against a variety of hostile forces. Superhuman entities with names like Prospero, Caliban and Ariel lay complex plots, using human beings as game pieces. From the outer solar system, an advanced race of semiorganic Artificial Intelligences, called moravecs, observe Earth and Mars in consternation, trying to make sense of the situation, hoping to shift the balance of power before out-of-control quantum forces destroy everything. This is powerful stuff, rich in both high-tech sense of wonder and literary allusions, but Simmons is in complete control of his material as half a dozen baroque plot lines smoothly converge on a rousing and highly satisfying conclusion.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Not as good as Ilium but still a good book,
This review is from: Olympos (Hardcover)
Dan Simmons done a really good job on the first book Ilium, the ending was great and it led right into this book Olympos but.... after reading this book I am left with a feeling of "I hope there is another one to explain what happened". Olympos was a page turner right to the end, but when it was finished it felt like the author must have ran out of idea's. I would still consider this book a reader if you read the first book ilium already and if you are new to both books. But I am still hoping that there will be a third to repair the ending in this book.
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent read,
This review is from: Olympos (Gollancz S.F.) (Paperback)
Olympos, and its first part, Ilium, are based off Homer's Iliad and The Odyssey. You don't have to have read them to understand Simmons' books, but it couldn't hurt. I have read both, loved them thoroughly, and was completely swept away by Simmons' creative manipulation of ancient literature and mythology without ruining the old books themselves. Reminds me of the new Star Trek film; an entirely different path is taken without taking away from the pervious shows and movies. Simmons maintains his use of classical literature as a spring board (thinking of the Hyperion series use of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales) from which to launch his very far future dystopic epic. I enjoyed these books more than the Hyperion series, which, as it were, were also excellent.
5.0 out of 5 stars
brilliant,
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This review is from: Olympos (Hardcover)
this was deftly witty book full of thrills and spills with plenty of action. The plot may sound condfusing but was in fact very simple to follow and thoroughly enjoyable. the mortals are caught between battles with demigods in a space/trojan/spirit world battle that kept me as captivated as the Lucifer Wars which held a similar theme but set in the modern day.
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