Olympos
Roman
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2.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Thomas Hockenberry, einst Professor für Philosophie an der University of Indiana, wird nach seinem Tod von den Göttern des Olymp auserwählt, um als Kriegsberichterstatter in Ilium tätig zu werden. Raffinierte High-Tech-Geräte erlauben es ihm, mitten im Kampfgetümmel zu erscheinen und in Sekundenbruchteilen wieder zu verschwinden. Doch Hockenberry kennt die "Ilias" zu genau, um nicht zu merken, dass sich zwischen dem, was er sieht, und den Versen Homers beträchtliche Diskrepanzen auftun. Schnell stellt er fest, dass er nicht auf dem griechischen Olymp wiedererweckt wurde, sondern auf dem Olympus Mons, dem höchsten Berg des Mars. Und es hat ihn nicht in die Antike, sondern in eine ferne Zukunft verschlagen. Als durch seine Intervention der Krieg eine völlig neue Wendung nimmt, geraten die Ereignisse zunehmend außer Kontrolle …
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Drawing from Homer's Iliad, Shakespeare's Tempest and the work of several 19th-century poets, Simmons achieves another triumph in this majestic, if convoluted, sequel to his much-praised Ilium (2003). Posthumans masquerading as the Greek gods and living on Mars travel back and forth through time and alternate universes to interfere in the real Trojan War, employing a resurrected late 20th-century classics professor, Thomas Hockenberry, as their tool. Meanwhile, the last remaining old-style human beings on a far-future Earth must struggle for survival against a variety of hostile forces. Superhuman entities with names like Prospero, Caliban and Ariel lay complex plots, using human beings as game pieces. From the outer solar system, an advanced race of semiorganic Artificial Intelligences, called moravecs, observe Earth and Mars in consternation, trying to make sense of the situation, hoping to shift the balance of power before out-of-control quantum forces destroy everything. This is powerful stuff, rich in both high-tech sense of wonder and literary allusions, but Simmons is in complete control of his material as half a dozen baroque plot lines smoothly converge on a rousing and highly satisfying conclusion.
Customer Reviews
In English please
I read the book years ago and it was great. Where's the English version????
Where is English edition
Read the first why isn't this book available in English as well
Loved the first don't read German but I'm sure second book would be good too