They have told him that they are thinking objects – like men – with souls and hearts like men, but they lie. They have told him that they took him from the battlefield on the day the Hole collapsed because they seek to help him find his way home to his wife and son, but they lie.
The artifices have told him that he is in a metal ship sailing the black sea of the kosmos, but they lie.
A single reference in passing is made to the mountain "Pikespik" (for " Pikes Peak").Odysseus, son of Laertes, father of Telemachus, beloved of Penelope, favorite of Athena, clenches his fists and teeth against his fury and continues to pace the metal tunnels of this shell, this hell. 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". 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. The novel is written in present-tense when centered on Hockenberry's character, but features third-person, past-tense narrative in all other instances. 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.
Like its predecessor it 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, Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, Shakespearean poetry and even William Blake and Virgil's Aeneid.
Olympos is a science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons published in 2005 it is the sequel to Ilium and final part of the Ilium/Olympos series.
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