Ilium by Dan Simmons
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 and marks a return to the genre for one of its greats.
Dan Simmons won the World Fantasy Award for his first novel, SONG OF KALI,. inspired by his travels in India. In the 1990s he rewrote the SF rulebook with his Hyperion Cantos quartet. He has also written thrillers. Alongside his writing he maintains a career as a college lecturer in English Literature in the USA.
SKU | GOR001790922 |
ISBN 13 | 9780575072602 |
ISBN 10 | 0575072601 |
Title | Ilium |
Author | Dan Simmons |
Condition | Very good |
Binding Type | Paperback |
Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
Year published | 2003-08-07 |
Number of pages | 592 |
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