- Olympos (novel)
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Olympos 
Cover to the 2005 first editionAuthor(s) Dan Simmons Cover artist Gary Ruddell; cover design by Ervin Serrano Country United States Language English Series Ilium/Olympus duology Genre(s) Science fiction novel Publisher HarperCollins, Eos imprint Publication date June 28, 2005 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 690 pp. hardcover, 891 pp. paperback ISBN 0-380-97894-6 OCLC Number 57694972 Dewey Decimal 813/.54 22 LC Classification PS3569.I47292 O49 2005 Preceded by Ilium (2003) Olympos, Dan Simmons' novel published in 2005, is the sequel to Ilium and final part of Ilium/Olympos duology. Like its predecessor it is a work of science fiction, and contains many literary references: it blends together Homer's epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, Shakespeare's The Tempest, and has frequent smaller references to other works, including Proust, James Joyce, Caliban upon Setebos, Prometheus Unbound, Shakespearean poetry and even William Blake and Virgil's Aeneid.
Contents
Plot introduction
The novel centers on three main character groups; that of the scholic Hockenberry, Helen and Greek and Trojan warriors from the Iliad; Daeman, Harman, Ada and the other humans of Earth; and the moravecs, specifically Mahnmut the Europan and Orphu of Io. The novel is written in present-tense when centered on Hockenberry's character, but features third-person, past-tense narrative in all other instances. Much like Simmons' Hyperion where the actual events serve as a frame, the three groups of characters' stories are told over the course of the novel and their stories do not begin to converge until the end.
References to the real world
The "Paris Crater" location (a devastated French capital) includes a few references to the real world, supposedly produced by folk etymology such as "Invalid Hotel" for "Hôtel des Invalides", "Champs Ulysses" for "Champs-Élysées" or "Guarded Lion" for "Gare de Lyon". A single reference in passing is made to the mountain "Pikespik" (for "Pikes Peak").
References
External links
- Olympos on Worlds Without End
The works of Dan Simmons Hyperion Cantos Ilium/Olympos Ilium • OlymposJoe Kurtz Hardcase • Hard Freeze • Hard as NailsOther novels
(In chronological order)Song of Kali • Carrion Comfort • Phases of Gravity • Entropy's Bed at Midnight • Summer of Night • Children of the Night • The Hollow Man • Fires of Eden • The Crook Factory • Darwin's Blade • A Winter Haunting • The Terror • Muse of Fire • Drood • Black Hills • FlashbackShort story collections Prayers to Broken Stones • Summer Sketches • Lovedeath • Worlds Enough & TimeCategories:- 2005 novels
- American science fiction novels
- Sequel novels
- Novels by Dan Simmons
- Science fantasy novels
- Mars in fiction
- Greco-Roman mythology in popular culture
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