false <![CDATA[Ilium]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165368436m/3973.jpg 3973 20 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. OnEarth, 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. 3185401 book 2003 Ilium total:1772|5:34|4:32|3:16|2:2|1:2| 1772 7074 2502 176 5 2 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Jul 22 13:34:09 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 22 13:34:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu May 31 14:49:58 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 12:09:58 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 10 17:10:32 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 07:54:08 -0700 2007 Ilium, it was nominated for the Hugo Novel of the Year in 2004. It absolutely deserved it. It also didn't win, and it deserved that as well.

Don't get me wrong. It's a great book and I loved reading it (indeed, this was the second time I read it and I think I e...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 28 23:00:08 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 28 23:12:28 -0700 2007 Dan Simmons has a way of writing page-turners that don't feel dumbed down (or smart books that stay exciting?). The concept is great fun for people with a background in classical history; it made me want to go back and re-read the Iliad. However, he's up to his old tricks again with regar...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 15 19:59:21 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 20:08:37 -0800 2008
I like SF, and I like much of what gets lumped under the rather stuffy title 'classic literature'. Clearly, so does Dan Simmons. Set in a very distant future, long after both AI and posthumans have merged, this novel contains three main storylines, all of which ventually ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Oct 20 17:54:59 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 18:28:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 26 12:31:06 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 12:35:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 08:00:19 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 10:37:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Nov 25 18:36:16 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 18:42:45 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 11 17:31:53 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 16 11:49:29 -0700 2007 5 1 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 14:16:37 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 14:18:10 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Sun Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 21:02:15 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 21:39:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Apr 04 14:18:50 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 05 13:45:18 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Wed Apr 08 07:28:29 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 08:46:07 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 07:28:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 16:08:25 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 16:15:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Feb 14 14:43:31 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 14:44:11 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 15:55:26 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 04:47:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 10:50:10 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 05:29:34 -0700 2009 Iliad scholar who, for reasons that are never explained, is smack dab in the middle of the battle outside the city of Troy between the Greeks and the Trojans. Bu...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 13:32:29 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 17:28:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Dec 01 11:20:10 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 16 06:50:15 -0700 2009
I continue to remain completely in awe of Dan Simmons.

Describing this book as "a science-fiction version of The Iliiad" is doin...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3973