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Overview

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.

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Olympos, the shelf-bending sequel to the Hugo Award–nominated Ilium and the concluding volume of Dan Simmons' epic Homeric duology, mixes hard science fiction with classic literature in a cataclysmic re-creation of the Trojan War that includes posthumans, biomechanical robots, the heroes of ancient Troy, the pantheon of Olympian gods, and even little green Martians! At the conclusion of Ilium, the Greek and Trojan armies -- battling it out on a terraformed Mars -- joined forces to take on Zeus and all the other gods in a battle to end all battles. But gods will be gods, and after Hera seduces and temporarily sidelines Zeus, the Trojan War resumes with even more brutality, as deities manipulate pivotal human participants such as Achilles, Hector, Agamemnon, and Helen. Meanwhile on Earth, an army of robotic voynix -- former human servants -- have begun systematically killing off all of their ex-masters. In yet another plot thread, Odysseus sets out on another quest to find his home -- and just maybe save the human race... One of the most ambitious science fiction works ever attempted, Simmons' Ilium and Olympos are massive in every sense of the word. Set on an immense stage of alternate Earth and Martian realities, peopled with literally hundreds of integral human and nonhuman characters, and powered by truly colossal themes, the books' numerous plotlines slowly interweave and eventually converge in an explosive conclusion that will leave readers shocked, stunned -- and utterly satisfied. Paul Goat Allen
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“A thoughtful but fast-paced tale that will leave heads spinning and hearts racing.”
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“Insanely ambitious . . . Ilium and OLYMPOS together solidify [Simmons’s] reputation as one of science fiction’s genuine modern masters.”

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780380817931
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 7/25/2006
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 912
  • Sales rank: 284,626
  • Product dimensions: 4.18 (w) x 6.75 (h) x 1.36 (d)

Meet the Author

Dan Simmons is the Hugo Award-winning author of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion, and their sequels, Endymion and The Rise of Endymion. He has written the critically acclaimed suspense novels Darwin's Blade and The Crook Factory, as well as other highly respected works, including Summer of Night and its sequel A Winter Haunting, Song of Kali, Carrion Comfort, and Worlds Enough & Time. Simmons makes his home in Colorado.

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Olympos

By Dan Simmons

Eos

ISBN: 0-380-97894-6

Chapter One

Helen of Troy awakes just before dawn to the sound of air raid sirens. She feels along the cushions of her bed but her current lover, Hockenberry, is gone - slipped out into the night again before the servants wake, acting as he always does after their nights of lovemaking, acting as if he has done something shameful, no doubt stealing his way home this very minute through the alleys and back streets where the torches burn least bright. Helen thinks that Hockenberry is a strange and sad man. Then she remembers.

My husband is dead.

This fact, Paris killed in single combat with the merciless Apollo, has been reality for nine days - the great funeral involving both Trojans and Achaeans will begin in three hours if the god-chariot now over the city does not destroy Ilium completely in the next few minutes - but Helen still cannot believe that her Paris is gone. Paris, son of Priam, defeated on the field of battle? Paris dead? Paris thrown down into the shaded caverns of Hades without beauty of body or the elegance of action? Unthinkable.

This is Paris, her beautiful boy-child who had stolen her away from Menelaus, past the guards and across the green lawns of Lacedaemon. This is Paris, her most attentive lover even after this long decade of tiring war, he whom she had often secretly referred to as her "plunging stallion full-fed at the manger."

Helen slips out of bed and crosses to the outer balcony, parting the gauzy curtains as she emerges into the pre-dawn light of Ilium. It is midwinter and the marble is cold under her bare feet. The sky is still dark enough that she can see forty or fifty searchlights stabbing skyward, searching for the god or goddess and the flying chariot. Muffled plasma explosions ripple across the half dome of the moravecs' energy field that shields the city. Suddenly, multiple beams of coherent light - shafts of solid blue, emerald green, blood red - lance upward from Ilium's perimeter defenses. As Helen watches, a single huge explosion shakes the northern quadrant of the city, sending its shockwave echoing across the topless towers of Ilium and stirring the curls of Helen's long, dark hair from her shoulders. The gods have begun using physical bombs to penetrate the force shield in recent weeks, the single-molecule bomb casings quantum phase-shifting through the moravecs' shield. Or so Hockenberry and the amusing little metal creature, Mahnmut, have tried to explain to her.

Helen of Troy does not give a fig about machines.

Paris is dead. The thought is simply unsupportable. Helen has been prepared to die with Paris on the day that the Achaeans, led by her former husband, Menelaus, and by his brother Agamemnon, ultimately breach the walls, as breach they must according to her prophetess friend Cassandra, putting every man and boy-child in the city to death, raping the women and hauling them off to slavery in the Greek Isles. Helen has been ready for that day - ready to die by her own hand or by the sword of Menelaus - but somehow she has never really believed that her dear, vain, godlike Paris, her plunging stallion, her beautiful warriorhusband, could die first. Through more than nine years of siege and glorious battle, Helen has trusted the gods to keep her beloved Paris alive and intact and in her bed. And they did. And now they have killed him.

She calls back the last time she saw her Trojan husband, ten days earlier, heading out from the city to enter into single combat with the god Apollo. Paris had never looked more confident in his armor of elegant, gleaming bronze, his head flung back, his long hair flowing back over his shoulders like a stallion's mane, his white teeth flashing as Helen and thousands of others watched and cheered from the wall above the Scaean Gate. His fast feet had sped him on, "sure and sleek in his glory," as King Priam's favorite bard liked to sing. But this day they had sped him on to his own slaughter by the hands of furious Apollo.

And now he's dead, thinks Helen, and, if the whispered reports I've overheard are accurate, his body is a scorched and blasted thing, his bones broken, his perfect, golden face burned into an obscenely grinning skull, his blue eyes melted to tallow, tatters of barbecued flesh stringing back from his scorched cheekbones like ... like ... firstlings - like those charred first bits of ceremonial meat tossed from the sacrificial fire because they have been deemed unworthy. Helen shivers in the cold wind coming up with the dawn and watches smoke rise above the rooftops of Troy.

Three antiaircraft rockets from the Achaean encampment to the south roar skyward in search of the retreating god-chariot. Helen catches a glimpse of that retreating chariot - a brief gleaming as bright as the morning star, pursued now by the exhaust trails from the Greek rockets. Without warning, the shining speck quantum shifts out of sight, leaving the morning sky empty. Flee back to besieged Olympos, you cowards, thinks Helen of Troy.

The all-clear sirens begin to whine. The street below Helen's apartments in Paris's estate so near Priam's battered palace are suddenly filled with running men, bucket brigades rushing to the northwest where smoke still rises into the winter air. Moravec flying machines hum over the rooftops, looking like nothing so much as chitinous black hornets with their barbed landing gear and swiveling projectors. Some, she knows from experience and from Hockenberry's late-night rants, will fly what he calls air cover, too late to help, while others will aid in putting out the fire. Then Trojans and moravecs both will pull mangled bodies from the rubble for hours. Since Helen knows almost everyone in the city, she wonders numbly who will be in the ranks of those sent down to sunless Hades so early this morning ...

(Continues...)


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  • Posted September 9, 2009

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    "I am in awe of Dan Simmons."

    900 pages of heart-stopping dynamics. 900 pages of pulse-pounding tension. 900 pages of mind-dazzling possibility.

    900 pages of pure genius.

    900 pages is a lot to read, a lot to digest, and if you're going to do it...this is the only way to fly. Dan Simmons has presented what stands as one of the pinnacles -- if not the apex -- of modern science-fiction: a stunning blend of so many aspects of our own lives, some of which we never even noticed before, blasted into a perspective you could only ever dream of. At times the power of his simple words are so compelling that one can just sit staring motionless at the ceiling, trying to blink back tears. Phenomenal, astounding work.

    Stephen King said it best, "I am in awe of Dan Simmons."

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 14, 2005

    Unbelievable

    I don't believe that Dan Simmons wrote 'Olympos', or if he did he must have been on heavy drugs all the time. I'm highly disappointed about the book, which I waited long for after reading 'Ilium'. The story waggles wild between miraculous events, which often feels like they have been put in just to keep the book together. Like when you make up a fairytale ad-hoc for your children: 'Then came the elves and made everything good again'. I even found an error where Hockenberry claims to have been shot down together with Mahnmut and Orphu. So, if you felt 'Ilium' was a little confusing, 'Olympos' will turn you insane. I do not demand a solved case, that doesn't go well together with good SF, but compared to the smart and logical explanations in Simmon's earlier works -such as 'Endymion'- this book leaves you with so many frustrating questions that you might regret that you ever read it. I will surely think twice before I read another new book by Dan Simmons, but will probably re-read his older books.

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    Haha

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 16, 2008

    Excellent book, but not for lazy readers

    Seriously - if you need to have things spelled out to you, Olympus and Ilium aren't for you. If, on the other hand, you enjoy piecing things together through deftly parseled-out clues, these are wonderful books. As with one of sci-fi's other giants, Gene Wolfe, Simmons assumes the reader will actually read the book rather than skim for plot points. Wait until you're in the mood for some mental heavy lifting, than give yourself a good weekend or two to enjoy Ilium and Olympus.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 17, 2006

    Olympos: A New Peak in Homophobia?

    I failed to see how expressions such as 'lousy Lesbian' and 'queer-boy fruit' moved the plot forward. Ditto for Simmons' gratuitous pot-shot at the transgendered. There's also a fair amount of misogyny if you bother to read between the lines. Simmons' vision of the future evidently fails to rise above contemporary prejudices. This otherwise imaginative novel was thoroughly ruined for me. I will never purchase or read another book by this author.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 8, 2005

    TOtally AWEsome!

    All the superlatives I've just read are true!...Don't ask me HOW you can blend everything Simmons blended & do it so well but he did! Look at the other reviews for details!...Just read this book!...And, as most said - it is really a totally statisfying conclusion - which is an amazing feat of writing in itself. I was ready to cry when I finished it - I just didn't want it to be over!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 19, 2005

    Great

    Dan Simmons has done it again. Olympos is a worthy follow-up to the magnificent Ilium. Highly recommended.

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  • Posted December 9, 2008

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    A homer

    While Helen mourns the death of her husband with the help of her lover twentieth century scholar Hockenberry, the Greek and Trojan warriors have united to fight the Olympic Gods who caused much of the conflict with their meddling (see ILIUM). However, the Gods have not been sitting back for a millennium as they are used to interfering, intruding and attacking mortals so they begin a counter assault. Abetting the humans is the moravecs space robots, but that might still prove inadequate as the allies war with the Gods they once worshipped. --- While Helen dresses for Paris¿ funeral following some lovemaking with traveling historian Hockenberry, in other dimensions the robotic voynix revolt against their dissolute human masters and Prospero and Caliban battle the Tempest god Setebos. Meanwhile Achilles mourns his beloved dead Amazon queen as Odysseus journeys to an alternate Earth. Soon these seemingly divergent happenings will converge with Trekkies appearing while Helen buries Paris before and after making love with Hockenberry. --- The storytelling talent of Dan Simmons is incredible as he somehow brings together this Homeric epic that feels more complex than the DNA helix yet the multiple story lines blend into a cohesive delightful satirical tempest of a novel. The story line combines humor with action adventure in a terrific time alternating science fiction thriller. Readers need to set aside several days to read this enthralling work slowly as Mr. Simmons ¿sneaks¿ in all sorts of tidbits. Readers will treasure this sequel that is as good as or perhaps better than the highly regarded ILIUM.--- Harriet Klausner

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 6, 2005

    Quite an imagination

    Again the author succeeds to charm the reader with his abundant imagination, combining many plots into one, from Homer's Iliad to Shakespeare and hi-tech future. The action is a little slow but still the book is very good.

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