Ilium

Science Fiction by Dan Simmons

Blurb

Ilium est un roman de science-fiction de Dan Simmons, publié en 2003.
Ilium est l'un des noms désignant la ville antique de Troie, et le roman de Dan Simmons s'inspire du récit de l'Iliade d'Homère, en la transposant dans un univers futuriste. Le récit fait référence à toute une série d'autres classiques de la littérature, dont certaines pièces de Shakespeare, notamment La Tempête, et À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust.
Le roman Olympos, paru en 2006, poursuit le récit commencé dans Ilium.

First Published

2003

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Shannon_Weeden

Shannon_weeden

I have not read this book yet, I am posting the book discription (since it was not already listed) incase someone else wanted to know what the book was about before reading. (like myself) 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. On Earth, 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.

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