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	Amazon.com: Olympos: Books: Dan Simmons
		Olympos also answers most of the questions left hanging in Ilium and are better viewed as one long novel than separate works.
		While there are a lot of different things going on in Olympos Simmons does a fabulous job of keeping the story moving at a brisk and exciting pace and he makes it easy for the reader to follow the big picture as the plotlines converge toward a conclusion.
		Olympos by Dan Simmons is the sequel to Ilium.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380978946?v=glance (2612 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books By genre Review: Olympos by by Dan Simmons
		But although Olympos, like its Homeric source, continually reminds us of the particularity of human experience, the engine that drives epic across space and time is not satire but praise, not failure but some memory of extraordinary achievement.
		The best chapter of Olympos is a drunken conversation that drifts around the question "What does it mean to be a man?" For Odysseus, manhood springs from "the agonistics of one man against another".
		Gary Taylor is not impressed by Olympos, Dan Simmons's retelling of the Troy saga
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/sciencefiction/0,6121,1566346,00.html (901 words)

	Bureau 42 Ilium
		Ilium won the 2004 Locus Readers Poll Award for best novel, and is a finalist for this year's Hugo, to be awarded in August.
		Dan Simmons' Ilium packs a lot of story into 570 pages-- but you'll have to wait for Olympos (to be released next Spring) to learns how it ends.
		Mahnmut ranks among the novel's most important characters, yet we learn very little about his physical appearance.
	www.bureau42.com /view/2067 (805 words)

	Masterful follow-up to 'Ilium'
		Without any preamble, "Olympos" picks up where "Ilium" left off, with the fabled Greek and Trojan warriors united sometime in the far future against the gods who have meddled with their fates for so long.
		Simmons is right at home with this kind of grand-scale storytelling, and "Ilium" and "Olympos" together solidify his reputation as one of science fiction's genuine modern masters.
		The action is fast, with plenty of room for mind- bending scientific and metaphysical speculation, as well as more delicious literary jokes than one might expect.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/17/RVG7IDKB1M1.DTL (859 words)

	Dan Simmons: Ilium
		Ilium is a major work of science fiction in much the same way Hyperion was, but while Hyperion could more easily be read on its own, Ilium clearly can only be read and fully understood with a reading of Olympos when the later work is eventually published.
		Although the story focusing on Hockenberry appears to be the primary tale, that perception may be based solely on his ties to the city of the novel's title.
		Until then, readers will be able to hunt for clues in Ilium and enjoy the adventures of the scholics, the moravecs, and the strange, peaceful humans who inhabit a garden party existence in the far future.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/ilium.html (411 words)

	Amazon.com: Olympos: Books
		As readers of Ilium will know, the novel is set in a future where "post-humans" have transformed themselves into the Greek gods and are playing out the Trojan war with a human population they seem to have created from remnant DNA in what turns out to be an alternate universe.
		Much of the novel, in fact, focuses on Harman, one of the wiser and more learned humans, and his cadre of friends who are trying save themselves and the rest of the human population from obliteration.
		But in the previous novel the Trojan war suddenly no longer follows its due course as laid out in the Illiad because of the meddling of one, Thomas Hockenberry, a 20th century classics professor whose DNA has been recombined by the post-humans so he can follow the war and report on its progress to them.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380978946?v=glance (2668 words)

	Dan Simmons - Author's Official Web Site
		Dan Simmons is a recipient of a Hugo Award and the author of critically acclaimed suspense novels and science fiction novels.
		Dan’s novel about the ill-fated 1845 Sir John Franklin Expedition to the arctic, THE TERROR, has sold to Little, Brown and is currently scheduled for release in January of 2007.
		Intertwining Homeric themes of fate, ceremony, friendship, duty, and courage with nonstop action and SF panache, Olympos begins with Greek and Trojan heroes led by the briefly allied Achilles and Hector laying siege to the home of the gods.
	www.dansimmons.com /news/news_items.htm (1919 words)

	eBay - Book: Ilium (ISBN: 0380978938)
		The first book in a remarkable two-part epic to be concluded in the upcoming Olympos, Dan Simmons's Ilium is a breathtaking adventure, enormous in scope and imagination, sweeping across time and space to connect three seemingly disparate stories in fresh, thrilling, and totally unexpected ways.
		This is genuinely one of the finest novels I have ever read.
		On an Earth profoundly changed since the departure of the Post-Humans centuries earlier, the great events on the bloody plains of Ilium serve as mere entertainment.
	product.ebay.com /Ilium_ISBN_0380978938_W0QQfvcsZ2178QQsoprZ2324027 (708 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Ilium: Dan Simmons goes (Ancient) Greek!
		The next novel Olympos is already being written and I have high hopes that reading the two in tandem will clarify some of the loose ends from Ilium and produce a far more rounded and satisfying read.
		However, unlike Hyperion, where the novel stood well by itself and the stories all held readers with their own energy, the three stories in Ilium are only just finding their own momentum as the novel ends.
		The very disparate cast of characters are harder to empathise with than characters in many of Simmons' other novels and the shear weight of so many different story elements, settings and intrigues threaten to overwhelm the coherence of the novel; so much is going on, it's hard to enjoy any one story.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2003/12/10/203455.php (1217 words)

	R A I N T A X I o n l i n e Fall 2004 - Ilium by Dan Simmons
		As with Hyperion, the reader must await the sequel for the story's conclusion, but there is plenty to digest until the sequel, to be titled Olympos, is published.
		The reader cannot help liking these characters—even Daeman, who thinks he is intelligent and a man who knows butterflies, though he is no more intelligent than he is a lepidopterist.
		Dan Simmons's first foray into science fiction since his epic Hyperion saga, Ilium stretches across over four thousand years in yet another astounding display of writing and ideas, not only about the potential future, but the potential past.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/2004fall/simmons.shtml (820 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		Simmons often mixes elements of classic literature into his novels of SF, fantasy and horror: The poems of John Keats inspired the Hyperion novels, as well as Endymion and The Rise of Endymion; both T.S. Eliot and Dante were the inspiration for The Hollow Man; and
		As those who read Ilium might suspect and those who read both Ilium and Olympos will understand, the literary connections and underpinnings to this tale are essential to it.
		The impetus for Ilium came from my own desire to re-engage with Homer's "Iliad" for a couple of years and to try again to understand the wildly different sensibilities of that work, that age, that era of human psychology.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue330/interview.html (1613 words)

	Farcasting the Liberal Arts - SummerFall 2003 - Wabash Magazine
		The follow-up to the Hyperion novels that placed Simmons among the most respected writers of science fiction and became one of the most acclaimed and popular series in contemporary science fiction, Ilium is told, in part, by an unwillingly resurrected former classics scholar from Indiana.
		The New York Times warned readers that the novel is part one of a series, so "for answers to the mysteries laid out in Ilium, you will have to wait for the promised sequel.
		Simmons carries readers to a future reenactment of the Trojan War (not to mention an evening with Helen of Troy), through trysts and conflicts with the gods on Mars’ Mt. Olympos, across galaxies and back and forth in time while morphing into different characters, faxing and farcasting through various states of existence.
	www.wabash.edu /magazine/displaystory.cfm?news_id=1257&issue=SF2003 (339 words)

	Buy.com - Olympos : Dan Simmons : ISBN 0380978946
		Splitting his writing between epic science fiction and spectacularly dense, complex horror novels, Simmons is a genre-straddling author who will undoubtedly remain a powerful force in both fields, even when his work comes to be accepted outside of the constraints of genre fiction.
		In 1985, his debut novel, SONG OF KALI, a grim horror novel set in the backstreets of Calcutta, won the prestigious World Fantasy Award.
		The author of the Hyperion Cantos delivers his epic-concluding companion to "Ilium"--the novel that "sets new standards for SF in the new century" (author Peter F. Hamilton").
	www.buy.com /prod/Olympos/q/loc/106/39981370.html (559 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.
		Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Simmons' novel uncoils into a deliciously brutal chess game between a chameleon serial killer and ex-con PI Kurtz.
		"In HARD FREEZE, Simmons slaps the traditional crime novel around and makes it like it.
	www.dansimmons.com /books/new_books.htm (831 words)

	Richard Bach: a fan site (Quotes, Photos, Biography, Forum)
		Digital Domain and Barnet Bain also are developing an adaptation based on Dan Simmons' sci-fi novel ILIUM and its sequel OLYMPOS.
		French filmmaker Yann Samuell is reportedly set to direct the adaptation, the inspirational account of an encounter with a modern-day messiah.
		It has been added to the photos page.
	www.inner-growth.info /main_bach.htm (408 words)

	Dan Simmons: Ilium
		Eventually, of course, their various tales will become intertwined, and Simmons gives every indication of their being a scientific rationale for everything, although much is left unexplained when Ilium ends, setting up the second, and final, volume of the work, Olympos.
		Dan Simmons has returned to writing science fiction with the novel Ilium, the first of a two volume series based, in part, on Homer's epic poem The Iliad.
		Furthermore, as the stories proceed, the reader's interest shifts from one plot line to another, not just because Simmons has elected to write about one plotline or another, but because the plots are paced differently and incorporate more and less interesting parts at different times in the novel.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/ilium.html (411 words)

	Dan Simmons - Author's Official Web Site
		SONG OF KALI, winner of the 1985 World Fantasy Award and Dan’s first novel, has been called “an exactingly constructed, brutal, and uncompromising study of the degree to which an evil place may permeate and steep all that makes us human” (Ed Bryant) and has been frequently listed as a modern masterpiece of dark fiction.
		Nick Gevers in LOCUS says of OLYMPOS -- “Considered as a great explosion of Story, Dan Simmons’s OLYMPOS, sequel to the already voluminous ILIUM (2003), is a supreme achievement.
		OLYMPOS was released on June 28, 2005, and opened to very strong reviews in Publishers Weekly (starred review), Kirkus Reviews, LOCUS (two reviews), Booklist, The Denver Post, and in other publications.
	www.dansimmons.com /news/news_items.htm (2533 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Ilium
		As he has done in the past, Simmons is once again incorporating earlier literature into the fabric and themes of his novel, this time turning to Shakespeare, Browning, Tennyson and Proust -- even H.G. Wells -- along with Homer for inspiration for his plots, adopting and recasting some of their characters and motifs.
		Homer has been supplanted by a twentieth century classics professor, Thomas Hockenberry, in his own words an "unwilling Chorus" who, along with other "scholics," has been resurrected from remnants of his own DNA to observe and report the unfolding saga to the gods on Mount Olympos.
		Without possibly giving a part of the game away, and cautioning the reader that the novel ends as a cliffhanger, the story concludes aptly enough at a precipice of war between gods and humanity.
	www.sfsite.com /09b/il160.htm (1616 words)

	Emerald City: Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Reviews
		Brehl is the editor for both Lois McMaster Bujold and Dan Simmons, so she accepted publisher awards at the Locus Awards ceremony for both Best SF Novel and Best Fantasy Novel.
		She also collected the author plaque for Simmons who is working hard on Olympos and could not attend.
		James’ Blish’s Hugos were accepted by his son, Ben.
	www.emcit.com /wordpress/index.php?p=413 (1616 words)

	Bureau 42 Ilium
		Ilium won the 2004 Locus Readers Poll Award for best novel, and is a finalist for this year's Hugo, to be awarded in August.
		Dan Simmons' Ilium packs a lot of story into 570 pages-- but you'll have to wait for Olympos (to be released next Spring) to learns how it ends.
		I really enjoyed Ilium, and I'm looking forward to Olympos--I hope Simmons makes the second book as good as the first.
	www.bureau42.com /view/2067 (797 words)

	Dan Simmons: Ilium
		Ilium is a major work of science fiction in much the same way Hyperion was, but while Hyperion could more easily be read on its own, Ilium clearly can only be read and fully understood with a reading of Olympos when the later work is eventually published.
		Although the story focusing on Hockenberry appears to be the primary tale, that perception may be based solely on his ties to the city of the novel's title.
		Furthermore, as the stories proceed, the reader's interest shifts from one plot line to another, not just because Simmons has elected to write about one plotline or another, but because the plots are paced differently and incorporate more and less interesting parts at different times in the novel.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/ilium.html (411 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books By genre Review: Olympos by by Dan Simmons
		Simmons tries to insulate himself from such criticisms by dedicating this novel to Harold Bloom, specifically invoking Bloom's criticism of the present as an "Age of Resentment" (which becomes in the novel itself "the Lost Age").
		Simmons joins a long list of writers who have vilified Helen, but his animus against the fatally heroic Amazon Queen Penthesilea, killed by Achilles, is more unusual and harder to explain.
		Simmons claims the right to enter the ring against Homer, as explicitly as Joyce did.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/sciencefiction/0,6121,1566346,00.html (901 words)

	Paco's Recommended Sci-Fi
		There is an epilogue of sorts in Simmons' book of short stories, Worlds Enough and Time, which also contains a short story that is the seed for his just-released novel Ilium that I also found quite enjoyable (its sequel, Olympos, comes out in 2005).
		There is absolutely no need to read any other Eddings books, as each series has exactly the same plot.
		About a Church’s attempts to preserve science after the Flame Deluge, a nuclear war, and mankind’s cyclical rises and falls.
	amdrae.ssc.uwo.ca /~pat/scifi (2311 words)

	Movie News at The Z Review UK movie news
		The movie rights to the sci-fi novel Ilium (and it's sequel Olympos) by Dan Simmons have been picked up by Digital Domain and Barnet Bain Films for development.
		They have signed up Simmons to write the screenplay.
		The movie centres on a brainy ugly duckling (Trachtenberg) who realizes her dream of becoming a champion figure skater with the help of physics, a disgraced coach, three snooty ice princesses, a chorus of stage parents and the hunky boy who drives the Zamboni ice resurfacing machine.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /news/news3530.htm (1872 words)

	Dan Simmons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In January 2004, it was announced that the screenplay he wrote for his novels Ilium and Olympos would be made into a film by Digital Domain and Barnet Bain Films, with Simmons acting as executive producer.
		Ilium is described as an "epic tale that spans 5,000 years and sweeps across the entire solar system, including themes and characters from Homer's The Iliad and Shakespeare's The Tempest." In July 2004, Ilium received a Locus Award for best science fiction novel of 2003.
		Hyperion (1989) - Hugo Award 1990, Locus Award 1990 (Science Fiction)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dan_Simmons (303 words)

	2004: An Olympic Odyssey - a new novel by Heidi Neale & Nick Manolukas
		From the depths of Hades to the summit of Mount Olympos, they must successfully navigate the realm of dreams and visions if they are to fulfill their destiny of saving the Games.
		After being scattered on the winds of time for 2500 years, the Goddesses and Gods of Classical Greece reunite for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens.
		LABRYS Publishing, Sarasota, FL Distributed by New Leaf,
	www.olympicodyssey.com (260 words)

	Atlantis the Antediluvian World
		That it was the true Antediluvian world; the Garden of Eden; the Gardens of the Hesperides; the Elysian Fields; the Gardens of Alcinous; the Mesomphalos; the Olympos; the Asgard of the traditions of the ancient nations; representing a universal memory of a great land, where early mankind dwelt for ages in peace and happiness.
		PART I. THIS book is an attempt to demonstrate several distinct and novel propositions.
		With the wider knowledge which scientific research has afforded the modern world, we can affirm that such an event is not only possible, but that the history of even the last two centuries has furnished us with striking parallels for it.
	www.blackmask.com /books28c/ataw.htm (260 words)

	Dan Simmons - Author's Official Web Site
		A breathtaking work of high-concept science fiction, Olympos will be eagerly anticipated by fans everywhere.
		In May of this year in Saint Petersburg, a role game was created around the Dan Simmons novel HYPERION.
		Dan Simmons is the author of the Hugo-Award-winning Hyperion, Song of Kali, Carrion Comfort, Worlds Enough and Time, and other respected works.
	www.dansimmons.com /news/news_items.htm (260 words)

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	fanblurb.com /amazon/asin.006051518X.Book_Anansi_Boys.html (260 words)

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