Series
Ilium
Dan Simmons · 2 novels · 2003–2005
Ilium/Olympos is a series of two science fiction novels by Dan Simmons. The events are set in motion by beings who appear to be ancient Greek gods. Like Simmons' earlier series, the Hyperion Cantos, it is a form of "literary science fiction"; it relies heavily on intertextuality, in this case with Homer and Shakespeare as well as references to Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu and Vladimir Nabokov's novel Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle.
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Ilium at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 2000s2
Shape
2 novels
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictiongodsother star systemsfar futurechallengingadult
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This series sits where the catalog sits — its mood is the corpus average.
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