![]() ![]() ![]() In Jupiter space, a pair of Moravecs - partially organic robots with an affinity for Proust and Shakespeare - agree to investigate a quantum anomaly recently discovered on the surface of Mars. The intertwined narratives that comprise the novel take place nearly 2,500 years from now, in the "post-human" universe of "The Ninth of Av." On Earth, the eloi-like remnants of the "old style" human race pursue painless, pointless existences, largely unaware of the history of their species, or of the nature and geography of the planet they inhabit. A work of epic scope, audacious intelligence, and imaginative grandeur, it is the opening movement of a projected two-volume sequence, and is an authentic masterpiece in its own right. Ilium is Dan Simmons' first full-length science fiction novel since The Rise of Endymion in 1997. ![]()
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