5/21/2023 0 Comments Dan simmons ilium review![]() ![]() No one knew why the skulls were there, only that they always had been." This sense of scale, temporal and spatial, contributes to the sense of wonder that, more than any other genre, epic generates. Teenage sex in the back seat of a car, fumbling with "the round snap-stud" of a garter, co-exists with a vision of the river Seine "dried up and paved with human skulls. Like so many epics and space operas, Olympos measures individual lives against a cosmic scale. Sci-fi wants it all, and craves the sorts of complication that produce an opening sentence such as: "Helen of Troy awakes just before dawn to the sound of air raid sirens." Like its predecessor Ilium, Dan Simmons's new novel combines the historical and literary Trojan war with biotechnology, nano-engineering, quantum physics, geology, astronomy, sex, politics, and religion. Science fiction is the most ambitious of contemporary literary genres. ![]()
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