Taking the events and characters of the Iliad as his jumping- off point, Dan Simmons has created an epic of time travel and savage warfare. Travellers from 40,000 years in the future return to Homer's Greece and rewrite history forever, their technology impacting on the population in a godlike fashion.
This is broad scope space opera rich in classical and literary allusion, from one of the key figures in 1990s world SF. Ilium marks a return to the genre for one of its greats.
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 9780575075603
Number of pages: 656
Weight: 372 g
Dimensions: 179 x 155 x 40 mm
i LOVED this! the trojan war is one of my favourite topics and i was thrilled at the twist Simmons threw into it. i read the whole book in one sitting and then promptly went out and bought the sequel. i think... More
I wasn't sure about this book when I first stared. It wasn't the same style of writing or story telling Dan Simmons used in Hyperion or Endymion which I loved SO much. However I stuck with it and ended up... More
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