Olympos

Paperback, 891 pages

English language

Published Jan. 7, 2011 by Harper Voyager.

ISBN:
978-0-380-81793-1
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4 stars (28 reviews)

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 one observer -- Twenty-first Century scholar Thomas Hockenberry -- stirred the bloody brew; before an enraged Achilles joined forces with his archenemy Hector; and before the fleet-footed mankiller turned his murderous wrath on Zeus, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, Apollo, and the entire pantheon of divine manipulators.Now, all bets are off. Dan Simmons, the multiple-award-winning author of The Hyperion Cantos, returns with the eagerly anticipated conclusion to his critically acclaimed, Hugo Award-nominated sf epic Ilium. A novel breathtaking in its scope and conception, Olympos ingeniously imagines a catastrophic future where immortal "post-humans" high atop the real Olympos Mons on Mars restage the Trojan War for their own amusement even while the sad remnants of mortal humankind are forced to …

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4 stars

A nice culmination. The geek in me loves Simmons science. The history and poetic buff slows and enjoys the moments.

My only real beef with this book was the story meanders a bit more than necessary but with all the thought and given to these two novels it'll be ok.

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