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Country United States Series Ilium/Olympus Media type Print (Hardback) Preceded by Ilium | 3.9/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date June 28, 2005 Originally published 28 June 2005 Cover artist Gary Ruddell | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher HarperCollins, Eos imprint Genres Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction Nominations Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Similar Dan Simmons books, Science Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Olympos is a science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons published in 2005; it is the sequel to Ilium and final part of the Ilium/Olympos series. Like its predecessor it contains many literary references: it blends together Homer's epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, Shakespeare's The Tempest, and has frequent smaller references to other works, including Proust, James Joyce, Caliban upon Setebos, Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, Shakespearean poetry and even William Blake and Virgil's Aeneid.
Plot introduction
The novel centers on three main character groups; that of the scholic Hockenberry, Helen and Greek and Trojan warriors from the Iliad; Daeman, Harman, Ada and the other humans of Earth; and the moravecs, specifically Mahnmut the Europan and Orphu of Io. The novel is written in present-tense when centered on Hockenberry's character, but features third-person, past-tense narrative in all other instances. Much like Simmons' Hyperion where the actual events serve as a frame, the three groups of characters' stories are told over the course of the novel and their stories do not begin to converge until the end.