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| | Dan Simmons - Author's Official Web Site |
 | | From the multiple award-winning author of the Hyperion Cantos – one of the most acclaimed and popular series in contemporary science fiction – comes ILIUM, a huge and powerful epic of high-tech gods, human heroes, total war, and the extraordinary transcendence of ordinary beings. |
 | | From the towering heights of Olympos Mons on Mars, the mighty Zeus and his immortal family of gods, goddesses, and demigods look down upon a momentous battle, observing – and often influencing-the legendary exploits of Paris, Achilles, Hector, Odysseus, and the clashing armies of Greece and Troy. |
 | | In "Orphans of the Helix," a brilliantly realized coda to the Hyperion saga, a band of interstellar pilgrims make an unexpected detour, and find themselves enmeshed in an ongoing - and unwitting -- conflict between two alien cultures. |
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