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false <![CDATA[Olympos]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165368434m/3972.jpg 3972 12 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 1537178 2005 Olympos total:1289|5:347|4:504|3:323|2:89|1:26| 1289 4924 1758 92 5 3 false false Sat Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 11 00:13:03 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 00:13:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 14 18:20:40 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 27 15:02:15 -0800 2009 Ilium was so promising. But I found this a real let-down conclusion to a probably over-ambitious beginning. Perhaps I had too high of hopes, because if anybody could have pulled off a conclusion to such an ambitious start, it would have been Simm...more...]]> 1 2 false false Mon Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 25 09:09:25 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 17 13:01:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 10:17:22 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 10:23:09 -0700 2009
I loved the world, the characters, the premise, and the story. So why only three stars? Simmons really wanted to end the series in two books, but there was just too much there to really do so. The resul...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 08 21:57:46 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 18:37:05 -0700 2007 3 0 false true Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 13:41:06 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 12:42:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Feb 14 14:44:18 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 14:44:49 -0800 2008 4 1 false false Fri Jul 11 07:47:20 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 07:47:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 13:24:37 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 09:15:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 11 12:55:41 -0800 2008 Fri Jun 13 09:47:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 true false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 21:22:34 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 21:36:31 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 02 09:55:38 -0700 2007 Wed May 09 12:46:02 -0700 2007
Olympos started off better than its prede...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 08:54:13 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 14:21:37 -0700 2008 too easy. And if some things had been cut out, it would've made it more readable and made i...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 21:44:35 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 21:16:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Apr 09 23:55:41 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 22:03:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Dec 05 00:36:14 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 00:37:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 22:24:21 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 01 22:21:33 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 22:26:47 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 22:33:34 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Feb 28 15:55:10 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 06:09:54 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 17:19:11 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 19 18:51:24 -0700 2008 Olympos is the conclusion to the story started in Ilium. It ties up a lot of loose ends, fills out the backstory, and tells the continuing story of the Trojan War and the Greek gods as well as many others.

I had a long review written explaining my rating, but it boils down to this: I cou...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3972