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Olympos (Ilium, #2)

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Librarian's Note: Alternate Edition with same isbn & isbn 13: January 2011

THE EXTRAORDINARY AND MAGNIFICENT EPIC CONCLUSION TO THE HUGO AWARD-NOMINATED ILIUM

Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce andMoreLibrarian's Note: Alternate Edition with same isbn & isbn 13: January 2011

THE EXTRAORDINARY AND MAGNIFICENT EPIC CONCLUSION TO THE HUGO AWARD-NOMINATED ILIUM

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 twenty-first century scholar Thomas Hockenberry stirred the bloody brew, causing an enraged Achilles to join forces with his archenemy Hector and turn his murderous wrath on Zeus and the entire pantheon of divine manipulators; before the swift and terrible mechanical creatures that catered for centuries to the pitiful idle remnants of Earth's human race began massing in the millions, to exterminate rather than serve.

And now all bets are off. Less

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roger

rated it did not like it
about 9 years ago
Recommends it for: teenage boys who like to jack off in their sheets

Shelves: fiction-scifi , fiction-meh
I enjoyed the beginning of this book as it picks up where Ilium left off. Leading up to about the middle of the book the story line is interesting and exciting. And then wham! Stinky turds from there on out. The rest of the story is a classic example of everything I can't... Read full review
Corytregoart

rated it did not like it
over 5 years ago
Recommends it for: People who can't tell a satisfying story arc from a hole in the ground.

(Contains spoilers towards the end)

This is my least favorite book.

It's not the worst book I've ever read. "Manos: The Hands of Fate" is perhaps the worst movie I've ever seen, but it's not my least favorite. It takes more than simple technical ineptness to rise (or sink)... Read full review
bobby

rated it it was ok
over 7 years ago

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD

I have tremendous problems with this book, not the least of which is that I wanted to enjoy it so badly. Simmons has a talent for writing good scenes and decent characters, but the overall structure of this book is so sloppy and disappointing that I ca... Read full review
Kiri

rated it it was amazing
over 8 years ago

Mind-blowing, adrenaline-pumping, world-expanding science fiction at its very best. Dan Simmons has big ideas and grand schemes, and he is never content to simply tell a story; no, he must weave it into our own reality in a seamless fashion, reaching backward and forward... Read full review
alireza

rated it did not like it
over 2 years ago

didn't answer anything.
the quite one didn't show up.
setebos just left.
islamophobia left a bad taste in my mind.
David

rated it did not like it
almost 5 years ago

Dan Simmons' Olympos consists mainly in two threads. In the one, most of our various characters (Harman and Daeman, the moravecs, Odysseus, Achilles, et al) undertake long journeys in time and space, bringing them at an unbearably slow pace towards the future Earth. On th... Read full review
David

rated it really liked it
about 1 year ago
Recommends it for: Asshole gods, robots from Jupiter, professors who get to bang Helen of Troy

Shelves: audiobook , science-fiction , greek-myths , gods , robots , war , space-opera , doorstopper
This sequel to Ilium follows a pattern I've noticed with Dan Simmons, now that I've read his entire Hyperion Cantos - his first books in a series are really, really good, while the follow-ups are still good, but seem to lose a bit of the brilliance of the original and win... Read full review
Chris

rated it did not like it
over 3 years ago
Recommends it for: people who like both Hienlien and Classical literature?

Shelves: my-reviews
A very ambitious science fiction duology (Olympos being the direct sequel to Ilium). (MILD SPOILERS AHEAD:) This is a multi-universe far-future epic involving Greek gods and Homeric heroes, Artificial Intelligences obsessed with Proust, nanotech-enhanced posthumans, a res... Read full review

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Book Details

Mass Market Paperback, 891 pages
Published July 25th 2006 by Harper Voyager (first published 2005
ISBN
0380817934 (ISBN13: 9780380817931)
Edition Language
English
Original Title
Olympos
Characters
Odysseus, Hector, Achilles, Hockenberry, Mahnmut More…Odysseus, Hector, Achilles, Hockenberry, Mahnmut, Orphu Less
Literary Awards
Locus Award

About this Author

2687. ux50 Dan Simmons grew up in various cities and small towns in the Midwest, including Brimfield, Illinois, which was the source of his fictional "Elm Haven" in 1991's SUMMER OF NIGHT and 2002's A WINTER HAUNTING. Dan received a B.A. in English from Wabash College in 1970, winning a national Phi Beta Kappa Award during his senior year for excellence in fiction, journalism and art.

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