Taking the events and characters of the Iliad as his jumping- off point, Dan Simmons has created an epic of time travel and savage warfare. Travellers from 40,000 years in the future return to Homer's Greece and rewrite history forever, their technology impacting on the population in a godlike fashion.
This is broad scope space opera rich in classical and literary allusion, from one of the key figures in 1990s world SF. Ilium marks a return to the genre for one of its greats.
| ISBN: | 9780575083301 |
| Publication date: | 2nd April 2009 |
| Author: | Dan Simmons |
| Publisher: | Gollancz an imprint of Orion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 629 pages |
| Series: | The Gollancz Space Opera Collection |
| Genres: |
Science Fiction |
Taking the events and characters of the Iliad as his jumping- off point, Dan Simmons has created an epic of time travel and savage warfare. Travellers from 40,000 years in the future return to Homer's Greece and rewrite history forever, their technology impacting on the population in a godlike fashion.
Ilium features in the following genres: Science Fiction
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Ilium was written by Dan Simmons and published by Gollancz an imprint of Orion
Ilium has 629 pages
Yes it is part of The Gollancz Space Opera Collection series