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	Ilium, New York
		The name most likely refers to Troy, New York, which is not far from Schenectady, where Vonnegut worked for a number of years.
		"''Ilium''" was a common alternate name for Troy in ancient Greek and Latin.
		However, '' Player Piano '' (1952) places Ilium southeast of Albany and Rensselaer, probably within Albany County near what is today Interstate 90.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Ilium,_New_York (153 words)

	Troy, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Troy is a city in New York, USA and is the county seat of Rensselaer County.
		He was an associate justice of the New York State Supreme Court, was elected as a Jacksonian Democrat to the United States Senate, serving from 1831 until 1833 and later became Governor of New York, a position he held from 1833 until 1839.
		Through much of the 19th and into the early 20th century, Troy was not only one of the most prosperous cities in New York State, but also one of the most prosperous cities in the entire country, overshadowing nearby Albany, the state capital.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Troy,_New_York (2092 words)

	Dan Simmons - Author's Official Web Site
		Ilium was a New York Times Extended list bestseller, was chosen as a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2003, won the Locus Award, and was nominated for a Hugo Award.
		Ilium ended with the Greek and Trojan heroes allied against the Olympian gods, advanced space-going robots called moravecs aiding the human side.
		ILIUM is scheduled for mass-market paperback release in June and Dan will be touring for OLYMPOS in July, 2005.
	www.dansimmons.com /news/news_items_bkup.htm (2092 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Slaughterhouse Five Study Guide
		Billy was born in 1922 in Ilium, New York.
		Billy's hometown is Ilium, another name for the city of Troy, the doomed city under siege in the Iliad of Homer.
		Ilium is the city that lost; its people were either butchered, scattered, or enslaved.
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	Slaughterhouse-Five Study Guide / Slaughterhouse-Five Summary
		Billy Pilgrim was born in 1922 in Ilium, New York.
		Ilium was a good city for optometrists because there was a big company there where every employee (out of sixty-eight thousand) was required to have safety glasses.
		Once an "umpire" (the narrator explains that there were umpires everywhere, men who said who was winning or losing the theoretical battle) comes with comical news that they have been theoretically spotted by the theoretical enemy and are theoretically dead.
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	Excessive Candour
		But we misrepresent Ilium if we give the impression that it is mainly an exercise in learning how to learn about the past; it is very much more (and sometimes a bit less) than that.
		Ilium is a Theatre of Memory of space opera.
		Ilium is perhaps, as well, the first successful space opera of Troy—Brian Stableford's Dies Irae trilogy from 1971 was fatally surly about its Homeric understory—and is so, I think, because it is the first story to respond to the Iliad as though Homer himself had written a space opera.
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	Barnes & Noble.com - Ilium - Dan Simmons - Mass Market Paperback
		Dan Simmons launches a new multi-volume epic with Ilium -- one that recalls his ambitious Hyperion series -- and its opening novel is a doozie, as three colorful plotlines eventually merge in impressive fashion.
		Ilium, of course, is another name for ancient Troy, and the tale opens on the blood-soaked plains of that besieged city as the Greek armies carry on their nearly decade-long attack, while Thomas Hockenberry, Ph.D.--"the unwilling Chorus of this tale"--studies the whole affair.
		Reassembled from scraps of DNA thousands of years in the future, Hockenberry and a host of other scholars were gathered up and sent to the past by a race of creatures with awesome powers and fickle tempers (the Greek gods) to serve as their recorders for what they saw as this grandest of games.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?z=y&pwb=1&ean=9780380817924 (1860 words)

	Archaeopteryx - EvoWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		The ischium and ilium are not fused into the ilioschiadic structure so characteristic of Ornithurae.
		It was the general consensus of the modernist era in paleornithology, that the differences between BMNH 37001 and HMN 1880 had been greatly exaggerated and that the material was conspecific, although this is not without dissenters (e.g., Elzanowski 2002).
		Elzanowski, A. New observations on the skull of Hesperornis with reconstructions of the bony palate and otic regions.
	wiki.cotch.net /index.php/Archaeopteryx (8612 words)

	Rosetta Books - Player Piano - Preview - eBook available for download
		Ilium, New York, is divided into three parts.
		Those old enough to remember and too old to compete said affectionately that Doctor Proteus looked just as his father had as a young man-and it was generally understood, resentfully in some quarters, that Paul would someday rise almost as high in the organization as his father had.
		Bud, who was manager of the petroleum terminal in Ilium, worked only when shipments came or went by barge or pipeline, and he spent most of his time between these crises-as now-filling Katharine´s ears with the euphoria of his Georgia sweet talk.
	www.rosettabooks.com /pages/title_30_preview.html (891 words)

	SOS, Missouri - Wolfner Library ( Midwestern Writers )
		This is a new edition restoring some passages from Burroughs' original manuscript published in 1959 that were omitted in later editions.
		Novel of the supernatural set in a small town in upstate New York where four old friends meet to honor the tradition of the Chowder Society by drinking and trading ghost stories.
		The hero survives capture by the Germans to become a rich doctor in Ilium, New York, until he is kidnapped by a flying saucer.
	www.sos.mo.gov /wolfner/bibliographies/midwesternwriters.asp (3623 words)

	owenbookseller.com :: Mysteries and Modern First Editions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		F/F. Derek Raymond : I Was Dora Suarez Scribner, New York, 1980.
		A New York City teacher living alone finds herself in the grip of mounting terror after a particularly gruesome murder in her neighborhood.
		Written by one of the most brilliant historians at work today, this is a revolutionary narrative history which takes a new look at the development of Britain and Ireland, not as self-contained islands, but as a crucial part of Europe.
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	College Reading Book List
		And a new character is introduced in an unforgettable courtroom scene – the legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow.
		Capricious and beautiful Bathsheba Everdene, the new young owner of the Upper Farm, is a disquieting presence in the village of Weatherbury.
		Billy Pilgrim, an optometrist from Ilium, New York, shuttles between the cellars of Dresden and a luxurious zoo on the planet Tralfamadore.
	libraries.risd.org /phslib/collegereadinglist.htm (9724 words)

	Historicizing Maps of Hell > Dystopias of the Post-War and Cold War Eras
		Ilium, New York, the setting for Player Piano, is used to represent the whole of the United States, as most towns are like it.
		Deckard’s concern is that the new generation of androids, the Nexus-6, may be able to beat the test.
		This new sense we have that everything in our lives is mediated and cultural explains, perhaps, why Deckard and Rachael’s escape into the ‘natural’ landscape at the end of Blade Runner seems so implausible and artificial.
	www.sedhe.net /dystopia/thesis_2.php (5730 words)

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		He had been on the telephone all afternoon, calling Ecuadorian financiers and banks, and the news he expected to bring was about all the properties he and the Hiroguchis could call their own in a day or two.
		As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea.
		When Hisako Hiroguchi entered a deep depression which was to last until her death, to last for nearly twenty years, Mandarax recommended new hobbies, new friends, a change of scene and perhaps profession, and lithium.
	bg-studio.newmail.ru /Kurt_Vonnegut_-_Galapagos.txt (21469 words)

	John Yates & J. Moulton's "History of New York"
		Europe consequently beheld a new race of men, vigorous in philosophy; enthusiastic in the cultivation of the fine arts; comprehensive in national policy; inventive, daring, and excursive in enterprise.
		New tribes again sprang from them, which assumed distinct names, still acknowledging the parent stock to be their grandfather.
		Rivers have formed new soil with their mud; the sea has retreated from shores and lengthened the land; or advancing, diminished it, or separated territories which were united, and formed new straits and gulfs.
	olivercowdery.com /texts/1824Yate.htm (12876 words)

	US_summer_reading
		In 1900 New Orleans, bored and beautiful Edna Pontellier seeks a new identity as she is awakened to the possibilities of a new love-- and its consequences.
		Set in the bleak, barren winter landscape of New England, it is the tragic tale of a simple man, bound to the demands of his farm and his tyrannical, sickly wife, Zeena, and driven by his star-crossed love for Zeena's young cousin, Mattie Silver.
		His mission is to bring the planet back into the fold of an evolving galactic civilization, but to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own culture and prejudices and those that he encounters — on a planet where people are of no gender—or both.
	www.rockyhill.org /NEWS/US_summer_reading.htm (4492 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Slaughterhouse Five Study Guide - Short Summary
		He grows into a weak and awkward young man, studying briefly at the Ilium School of Optometry briefly before he is drafted.
		After he goes home, he runs off to New York and goes on a radio talk show to talk about his alien abduction experiences and the Tralfamadorian concept of time.
		His daughter Barbara, just twenty-one years old, suddenly motherless and with a father who appears to be mentally unbalanced, takes care of Billy but feels a great deal of resentment and frustration.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/slaughterhousefive/shortsumm.html (641 words)

	Random House: Reading Group Guide for Slaughterhouse 5
		Moving backwards and forwards in time, Slaughterhouse 5 is narrated by Billy Pilgrim, a Second World War veteran who was captured by the Germans in the Ardennes offensive in 1944 and who witnessed the horrific firebombing of Dresden by the Allies.
		When the novel opens — in 1968 — Billy is a wealthy optometrist living in Ilium, New York State, with a wife and two children.
		It becomes clear during the course of the novel, however, that Billy has been in an air crash which has left him severely injured, and that his wife has died in a freak accident while rushing to his bedside.
	www.randomhouse.co.uk /offthepage/guide.htm?command=Search&db=/catalog/main.txt&eqisbndata=0099800209 (731 words)

	Dan Simmons - Author's Official Web Site
		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.
		Somewhere in Western New York, there's a remote mountaintop in the moonlight, its dark forests and moon-dappled meadows populated only by corpses.
		In his first new collection since 1993's LOVEDEATH, Dan Simmons offers us five long stories - two of them new to American readers - that reaffirm his status as a visionary storyteller and master of narrative prose.
	www.dansimmons.com /books/new_books.htm (831 words)

	The Slaughter House Five
		At the New York World's Fair he and the girls see official versions of the past and future that make him wonder about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
		Every time he wakes up in peaceful Ilium in 1967, he's reminded of war (the siren, the devastated ghetto, the speech about Vietnam by the Marine major, the crippled veterans), yet each time he returns to World War II in 1944, everything looks beautiful, and the togetherness of the POWs is genuinely comforting to him.
		In a new introduction for Slaughterhouse-Five, written in 1976, he says: - The Dresden atrocity, tremendously expensive and meticulously planned, was so meaningless, finally, that only one person on the entire planet got any benefit from it.
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	Fictionwise eBooks: Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
		The story gives off the dank chill of 1984 and Brave New World, but it is less earnest, almost zany, and it wields its message playfully in comparison.
		Paul seems to be on his way up the ladder of success in this techno-utopia--a perfect wife, a fast-track position at the Ilium Works and a shot at a major promotion--but he is plagued with doubts about what modern life has become.
		Paul and his companions surrender when they discover their followers have become obsessed with making new machines from the wreckage of the machines they have just smashed.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook7094.htm (1153 words)

	SOS, Missouri - Wolfner Library ( Banned & Challenged Books )
		Patrick Bateman is a 27-year-old New York investment banker whose glitzy exterior conceals an empty life.
		Because she is from the city, the new girls expect her to be more grown up than they are, but Margaret's body has not yet begun to mature and she has never kissed a boy.
		Trudi, born in Germany in 1915, is a Zwerg or dwarf.
	www.sos.mo.gov /wolfner/bibliographies/bannedbooks.asp (1264 words)

	UNT Libraries New Acquisitions for February 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		New York ; London : New York University Press, c2004.
		New Brunswick, NJ : Center for Urban Policy Research, 2002.
		New York : Citadel Press : Kensington Pub.
	www.library.unt.edu /newacqs/2004_02/titleI.htm (975 words)

	About Ilium Software (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		Ilium is Greek for Troy, the ancient city where the Trojan War took place.
		The Trojan Horse, Helen of Troy, and Homer's Iliad are associated with Troy.
		There's also a Troy in New York, which Kurt Vonnegut fictionalizes as Ilium, New York in several of his novels.
	www.iliumsoft.com /site/ilium/about.htm (278 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		Born in Vonnegut's version of Schenectady, New York (Ilium) in the year of Vonnegut's birth (1922), Billy also experiences the fire bombing of Dresden as a prisoner-of-war.
		Similarly, Vonnegut uses stream of consciousness to portray Billy's difficulty in fully adopting the Tralfamadorian objectivity toward the Dresden bombing and to underscore the inexplicable interrelatedness of experience.
		The city of Ilium was the setting for Player Piano (1952); the Tralfamadorians were the central focus of The Sirens of Titan (1959); Howard Campbell was the protagonist of Mother Night (1961); and Eliot Rosewater and Kilgore Trout return from God Bless You, Mr.
	lfa.atu.edu /Brucker/Vonnegut.html (3125 words)

	Amazon.com: Player Piano: Books: Kurt Vonnegut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		When "Player Piano" first begins, the reader is presented with an alternate reality of the 1950s/1960s in America, who has just fought the "Last War" and where the common masses are subsidized by the federal government and all industry has been centralized and streamlined by a massive bureaucracy.
		The new factories are fully automated through a conglomeration of vacuum tubes, wiring, and machines.
		A larger issue presents itself in the idea of a revolution to restore "power to the people." The revolutionaries are presented in a conflicted nature, as they are not as idealistic and pure as they seem at first.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440170370?v=glance (1966 words)

	Ilium MP3 Downloads - Ilium Music Downloads - Ilium Music Videos
		The angular indie rock unit Chavez was led by singer/guitarist Matt Sweeney, the former frontman of New Jersey's Skunk.
		Following the group's demise, Sweeney joined the New York band Wider, which included onetime Live Skull drummer James Lo; when Wider dissolved in 1992, Sweeney began playing with ex-Bullet Lavolta guitarist Clay Tarver.
		The For Carnation was a low-key, mostly acoustic vehicle for ex-Slint/Squirrel Bait member Brian McMahan, whose previous projects had all made their impact through jagged, noisy art-punk.
	www.mp3.com /ilium/artists/262884/similar.html (354 words)

	Adherents.com - Religious Groups in Literature
		Even he could not remember that New Law robots were not required to obey the commands of a human.
		New York: William Morrow and Co. (1989); pg.
		New York: Marvel Comics Group (Aug. 1984); pg.
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	Tysiora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		Be sure to add new medicines to the list when you start taking something new or when you change your dose.
		Charlemagne's new "empire" was usurping the legitimate role of the Roman Empire in Constantinople.
		I am and always have been a news junkie, I guess, as was my mother, and we loved satire as well.
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