Ilium

, #1

752 pages

English language

Published June 27, 2005 by HarperTorch.

ISBN:
978-0-380-81792-4
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4 stars (51 reviews)

From the author of the Hyperion Cantos -- one of the most acclaimed popular series in contemporary science fiction -- comes a powerful epic of high-tech gods, human heroes, total war, and the extraordinary transcendence of ordinary beings. The first book in a two-part epic. "I am in awe of Dan Simmons." -- Stephen King. From the towering heights of Olympos Mons on Mars, the mighty Zeus and his immortal family of gods, goddesses, and demigods look down upon a momentous battle, observing -- and often influencing -- the legendary exploits of Paris, Achilles, Hector, Odysseus, and the clashing armies of Greece and Troy. Thomas Hockenberry, former twenty-first-century professor and Iliad scholar, watches as well. It is Hockenberry's duty to observe and report on the Trojan War's progress to the so-called deities who saw fit to return him from the dead. But the muse he serves has a new assignment …

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reviewed Ilium by Dan Simmons (Ilium, #1)

Lyrique, épique, mythique

4 stars

Première partie d'une dilogie, Ilium est un salmigondis de concepts improbables. Des divinités grecques qui suivent de près la guerre de Troie depuis la surface de Mars, des machines sentientes qui dissertent sur l'œuvre de Proust depuis la ceinture d'astéroïdes, des personnages semblants tirés de pièces de Shakespeare, des post-humains qui font la fête comme s'ils étaient en 5999, un virus tueur, des trous noirs de guerre, des dinosaures... et le plus incroyable c'est que ça fonctionne ! La description des combats de l'Iliade est à elle seule un régal, mais Ilium et surtout sa suite Olympos vont beaucoup, beaucoup plus loin.

Review of 'Ilium' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Interesting fiction here, only thing that put me off, he uses the same terms and much of the same tech of Hyperion, it's almost like they're in in the same universe but not quite. When I got used to it though, the book itself as stand alone is very good and it takes a while to realize what is going on.

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