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Ilium
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 29 hrs and 41 mins
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Summary
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.
Thomas Hockenberry, former twenty-first-century professor and Iliad scholar, watches as well. It is Hockenberry's duty to observe and report on the Trojan War's progress to the so-called deities who saw fit to return him from the dead. But the muse he serves has a new assignment for the wary scholic, one dictated by Aphrodite herself.
With the help of fortieth-century technology, Hockenberry is to infiltrate Olympos, spy on its divine inhabitants ... and ultimately destroy Aphrodite's sister and rival, the goddess Pallas Athena. 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.
Its scenes of unrivaled heroics and unequaled carnage add excitement to human lives devoid of courage, strife, labor, and purpose. But this eloi-like existence is not enough for Harman, a man in the last year of his last Twenty. That rarest of post-postmodern men - an "adventurer" - he intends to explore far beyond the boundaries of his world before his allotted time expires, in search of a lost past, a devastating truth, and an escape from his own inevitable "final fax." Meanwhile, from the radiation-swept reaches of Jovian space, four sentient machines race to investigate - and, perhaps, terminate - the potentially catastrophic emissions of unexplained quantum-flux emanating from a mountaintop miles above the terraformed surface of Mars.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-06-21
good but often a little too 'spacey'
great twist on the illiad, gets bogged down in the details of the technology a little too often
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- Cameron McLean
- 26-06-14
The Iliad with a great twist
Dan Simmons had penned a great story interwoven with The Iliad. For me, the book has everything from Classics to hard sci-fi
The follow on book Olympus is just as good
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- Kindle Customer
- 01-06-23
A fantastic listen
A well thought out blend of past, present, and future, combining to create a gripping story.
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- VeBristol
- 20-07-15
Amazing book and amazingly read!
Would you listen to Ilium again? Why?
Yes, it's a great story by Dan Simmons and there would always be more to understand with each listen.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Hockenburry was my favourite character, I enjoyed the way he developed throughout the books.
Have you listened to any of Kevin Pariseau’s other performances? How does this one compare?
Yes. Always good!
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
All of it.
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- Paul
- 05-10-18
Hard work!
Wow that was a difficult listen. Parts of the story are interesting but the lists of Greek and Trojan names.... just not needed! Who cares who the master surgeon is who is never mentioned again is, I don't need to know the back story of some midwatchman or the step mother in law of the nanny of the son of...... blah, blah, blah! I would like to know where the story goes but no way I'm wasting any more time on it. I'll find an online review to see how it ends. I enjoyed the Hyperion series btw so I'm not anti Dan Simmons. Also I know parts of the book are written in the style of the Illiad but that's no excuse to try (if that's what the author was doing) to make it dull.
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- Ms
- 07-03-21
Truly a ripping yarn - well worth a try
This book combines Greek mythology and history with full-on Sci-fi, to great effect.
The plot skips between a few locations but it all makes sense eventually. The characters are interesting and they develop over the novel, while the plot is intriguing and gripping.
The performances are excellent and help bring the characters to life.
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- ajd
- 23-04-21
A truly epic science fiction novel
I thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of this heroic fantasy blend of Homer's Illiad with a modern science fiction genre. It is pretty epic in scale and arguably some of the genealogy could have been omitted without harming the flow of the story but even without being anything of a Classics buff, I personally enjoyed the historical allusions. It can certainly be enjoyed over several days or even weeks and picks up in pace with every chapter.
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- indigodreamer
- 29-05-20
Not His Best
After reading "Hyperion" I have always looked out for Dan Simmons books. But Ilium somehow fails to hit the spot. There are long long passages in which we are treated to a roll-call of dozens of Greeks, Trojans and / or Gods - I say "treated" but I'm afraid long lists don't do much for me. The focus seems to ramble, to meander, and I didn't have the feeling of being in safe storytelling hands. Where was the story going? What was it about? Having reached the end of the 29 hours I'm still not sure. Certainly there's book two, Olympos, so I have to hope I will find out by the end of that further 36 hours. Narration was competent, possibly the book didn't give the narrator much scope to shine.
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- Patrick
- 02-07-20
no point buying it as the sequel isn't on audible
it may well change but at the moment you can't get the second book
even though you can listen too a bit of it at the end which implies copyright nonsense
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- Peter Holm Rasmussen
- 04-03-23
Great story
Wonderful story. It's a little long, but it's well worth it. The performance/narration was also excellent.
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