5/21/2023 0 Comments Dan simmons ilium review![]() The plot, however, is occasionally bogged down in too much detail, which impedes the flow of the pacing and may tempt the reader to (gasp) skip ahead a few pages. Then mix well with handfuls of expertly drawn characters that fairly leap off the page and minute (sometimes to the point of annoyance) descriptions of the fanciful imaginings of Simmons’ mind, and you have a very good novel. While that seems dizzying enough by itself, let’s throw in a society where reading no longer exists (shudder) and the Earth is no longer considered to spherical. Picture it, a world where people can travel in the blink of an eye with the aid of “faxing,” co-exist with the gods of Olympus (who often stop time to interfere in the lives of mere mortals), and the characters from Homer’s The Iliad are flesh and blood beings who bring the great poem to life. Ilium is a brilliantly conceived story that artfully combines Shakepearean and Homerian themes with a surrealistic future in which high technology coexists with dinosaurs. ![]()
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