Olympos
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.46 (809 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1480591734 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 590 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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J.L.R said Olympos Review. What an imaginative and inspiring story of both fictional and nonfictional aspects! It delves into the heaviest questions that life has to throw at us!! The moral dilemmas are handled artfully and with a grace so few authors can achieve! Simmons lovely friend Keats once again makes an appearance with Hyperion references while adorable an. Like a hundred other reviewers SB Others have already said it better, but I feel compelled to register my lack of stars for Olympos. When I started this book, I couldn't understand all the negative reviews. I thought, they must not know what they are talking about. But how right they are-- the last half of the book is completely by-the-numbers. Like another reviewer said. An SF Classic of Sustained Brilliance to the Very Last Page The sequel and conclusion to "Ilium," this is one of the most wildly imaginative far-future SF sagas ever concocted. Simmons is a writer of wide range, combining fast-moving action, complex plot, wonderful variety of characters, breathtaking descriptions, and audacity of invention. And he combines a literate popular style with literary a
Picking up where he left off in the high-wire act Ilium, Simmons doesn't disappoint. 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. In this exclusive interview, he talks about his latest SF triumph, Olympos, a tale of Mars, the Greek gods, and survival in a post-human world.. Be sure to read Ilium first though. Back on a future Earth, assorted creatures from Shakespeare's The Tempest get ready to rumble in a winner-takes-the-universe battle royale. Hector and Achilles have joined forces against the Olympic Gods. That and a more-than passing familiarity with The Illiad might come in handy for the journey to Mars, Ilium's far-off shores, a
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.