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Zusatztext "[Ilium] will leave most readers waiting breathlessly for the next installment...utterly addictive." Informationen zum Autor Dan Simmons is the Hugo Award-winning author of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion , and their sequels, Endymion and The Rise of Endymion . He has written the critically acclaimed suspense novels Darwin's Blade and The Crook Factory , as well as other highly respected works, including Summer of Night and its sequel A Winter Haunting, Song of Kali, Carrion Comfort, and Worlds Enough & Time . Simmons makes his home in Colorado. Klappentext The Trojan War rages at the foot of Olympos Mons on Mars -- observed and influenced from on high by Zeus and his immortal family -- and twenty-first-century professor Thomas Hockenberry is there to play a role in the insidious private wars of vengeful gods and goddesses. On Earth, a small band of the few remaining humans pursues a lost past and devastating truth -- as four sentient machines depart from Jovian space to investigate, perhaps terminate, the potentially catastrophic emissions emanating from a mountaintop miles above the terraformed surface of the Red Planet. Zusammenfassung The Trojan War rages at the foot of Olympos Mons on Mars -- observed and influenced from on high by Zeus and his immortal family -- and twenty-first-century professor Thomas Hockenberry is there to play a role in the insidious private wars of vengeful gods and goddesses. On Earth! a small band of the few remaining humans pursues a lost past and devastating truth -- as four sentient machines depart from Jovian space to investigate! perhaps terminate! the potentially catastrophic emissions emanating from a mountaintop miles above the terraformed surface of the Red Planet.
