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Ilium, Dan Simmons

A book about Greek God’s? What was I doing buying this? What led me to put it in the Shopping basket at Amazon.com? Was it a mistake? I don’t quite remember. I am thoroughly glad I did though; Ilium (ISBN 0380978938) was an exceptional book to read. Mixing, as I said, Greek Gods, cybernetic organisms, people brought back from the past and the last/post humans (heavy references to Eloi and Morlocks).

I have a memory from school doing some homework on Greek gods and not being overly motivated, since then this part of ancient history has not interested me one bit. I almost thought about putting this book down, it’s so full of the Gods. Eventually though I was hooked, of course they are not Gods, they are just post-Humans. The book though finishes with lots of questions to be answered, I wondered why; well the answer Olympus awaits us in middle of 2004.

I have noticed of late writers writing trilogies or follow on’s from the get go, not just writing an epic like Clarkes 2001, or Asimov Foundation and then adding to it after the success of the first book and it’s ideas. Ilium like Sawyers Neanderthal Parallax are pre-ordained collection of books. This leads the reader after reading the first waiting six months or more for the next and finding out what is really the ending of the book. These are just larges books spread across volumes and not stand alone books that have a recurring theme. I am not sure I like this style of writing, after the six months you could have forgotten all about the characters, what was the book all about. My opinion is they should if the book is big print it as one entity, not split it up. Maybe it’s about book sales?

Ilium though was a jolly good read and just because of the sheer mix of elements in this book I give it,
4.5/5

Posted by iwsmith at January 31, 2004 06:30 PM

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