![]() ![]() His job is to take notes on the war and compare its progress to Homer's tale, noting even the smallest deviations. ![]() Thomas Hockenberry, a late-20th-century professor of the classics from De Pauw University in Indiana, has, along with other scholars from his era, apparently been resurrected by the Gods. The Gods, who live on Olympus Mons on the planet Mars, may be post-humans, or aliens, or, well, Gods it isn't entirely clear. ![]() Oddly, its combatants, Hector, Achilles and the rest, seem to be following a script, speaking their lines exactly as Homer reported them in The Iliad. Elsewhere, on some alternate Earth, or perhaps it's the distant past, the battle for Troy is in its ninth year. Many centuries in the future, Earth's small, more or less human population lives an enjoyable, if drone-like existence. Hugo and Stoker winner Simmons ( Hyperion) makes a spectacular return to large-scale space opera in this elegant monster of a novel. ![]()
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