Olympos-new

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 Homers Timeless Narrative. But That Was Before One Observertwentyfirst Century Scholar Thomas Hockenberrystirred The Bloody Brew; Before An Enraged Achilles Joined Forces With His Archenemy Hector; And Before The Fleetfooted Mankiller Turned His Murderous Wrath On Zeus, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, Apollo, And The Entire Pantheon Of Divine Manipulators.Now, All Bets Are Off.Dan Simmons, The Multipleawardwinning Author Of The Hyperion Cantos, Returns With The Eagerly Anticipated Conclusion To His Critically Acclaimed, Hugo Awardnominated Sf Epic Ilium. A Novel Breathtaking In Its Scope And Conception, Olympos Ingeniously Imagines A Catastrophic Future Where Immortal 'Posthumans' High Atop The Real Olympos Mons On Mars Restage The Trojan War For Their Own Amusement Even While The Sad Remnants Of Mortal Humankind Are Forced To Confront Their Ultimate Annihilation.For Untold Centuries, Those Few Oldstyle Humans Remaining On Earth Have Never Known Strife, Toil, Or Responsibility, Each Content To Live His Or Her Allocated Hundred Years Of Life In Unquestioning Leisure. But Virtually Overnight And For Reasons Beyond Their Comprehension, The World Around Them Has Changed Forever. The Voynixterrible And Swift Creatures That Once Catered To Their Every Needare Now Massing In The Millions With But One Terrifying Purpose: The Total Extermination Of The Human Race.Having Traveled Farther And Learned More Of The Wondrous And Terrible Truth Of Their World Than Any Others Of Their Kind, Ada And Daemanwith The Aid Of The Crafty And Mysterious Warrior Once Called Odysseus, Now Called Nomanmust Marshal The Pathetic Defenses Of Ardis Hall In Anticipation Of The Onslaught Of The Murderous Voynix. And They Must Do So Without Harman, Adas Lover And The Father Of Her Unborn Child, Who Wanders The Earth On A Great Odyssey Of His Own. Harman Seeks Nothing Less Than The Limitless Knowledge Necessary To Defeat Setebos, An Unspeakable, Otherworldly Monster Who Feeds On Horror, And Whose Arrival Heralds The End Of All Things.And Meanwhile, Back On Mars . . .The Vengeful Rebellion Of Achillesand The Intervention Of Sentient Robots From Jovian Space, Determined To Prevent A Potentially Universeobliterating Quantum Catastrophehas Set Immortal Against Immortal, Igniting A Civil War Among Olympian Gods That May Send All Things In Heaven And Earth And Everywhere In Between Plummeting Straight To Hell.A Monumental Work That Blurs The Often Arbitrary Line Between Great Sf And Serious Literature, Dan Simmonss Olympostogether With Its Extraordinary Predecessor, Iliumsets New Standards For The Genre, Confirming His Reputation As One Of The Most Original Authors Currently Working In The Field Of Speculative Fiction.