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Ilium

By Dan Simmons

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780380817924

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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 ofContinue

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.

Critics

  • Ilium - L'assedio

    Terra, migliaia di anni nel futuro. La popolazione umana è mantenuta a un milione di individui da un rigido controllo di nascite e morti operato da misteriose entità superiori. Gli uomini, tutti analfabeti tranne la leggendaria Savi, passano il tempo ... (read full critics)

    mangialibri published on Sat, 18 Feb 2012

  • Ilium - La rivolta

    Thomas Hockenberry, per niente rassegnato a rimanere una semplice pedina dei giochi di potere di Afrodite, decide di cambiare le sorti della guerra di Ilio convincendo greci e troiani a coalizzarsi contro gli dei. Nel frattempo i due robot senzienti ... (read full critics)

    mangialibri published on Fri, 17 Feb 2012

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  • A bit too sci-fi for me.

    I'm a classics fan. This is definitely one for the hardcore sci-fi fans and I don't particularly like this genre. I got about 100 pages in and knew it wasn't working for me, but that's not to say it's a bad book - just not my cup of tea.

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    Athene1710 said on May 8, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • I personally found this perhaps the best SF novel ever written by Simmons. I even find it superior to the Hyperion and Endymion novels. The storytelling is cinematic and breathtaking. The characters are greatly rounded. Adventurous and intense. It sometimes suffers from little academic wanderings bu ... (continue)

    I personally found this perhaps the best SF novel ever written by Simmons. I even find it superior to the Hyperion and Endymion novels. The storytelling is cinematic and breathtaking. The characters are greatly rounded. Adventurous and intense. It sometimes suffers from little academic wanderings but is really a masterpiece. If you read this you should absolutely also read Olympos.

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    Fabioruxo said on Apr 11, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • If you are interested in ancient greek mythology, this book is for you ! However the plot is not so original, check Roger Zelazny's "God of Light", which has a very similar concept and written decades ago...

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    marillion said on May 6, 2007 | Add your feedback

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