Olympos (Unabridged)
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4.2 • 17 Ratings
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- $34.99
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- $34.99
Publisher Description
Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative. But that was before 21st-century scholar Thomas Hockenberry stirred the bloody brew, causing an enraged Achilles to join forces with his archenemy, Hector, and turn his murderous wrath on Zeus and the entire pantheon of divine manipulators; before the swift and terrible mechanical creatures that catered for centuries to the pitiful idle remnants of Earth's human race began massing in the millions, to exterminate rather than serve.
And now all bets are off.
Customer Reviews
Loved this book, it’s a lot of fun.
“Olympos” and its first volume, “Ilium” are a first class sci-fi joyride, I just loved them. Set in a distant, FUBAR future, “Ilium” and “Olympos” have something for everyone. There’s classical lit, fantasy sci-fi, a little hard sci-fi, cyberpunk, steampunk, sex, violence, humor, quantum and meta physics babble and a little soulful growing-up pain.
The characters are all great, from the bunny-brained “old-style” humans to the sphinxish “post” humans, the earnestly human cyborgs, the corrupted “post-post-humans” and other creatures that seem to have sprung up from human consciousness itself. The whole insane menagerie are all likable and loathsome in their own ways.
Simmons has a gift for fantastic visuals, from the “Paris Crater” to the “Atlantic Breach”, he creates eye candy that you don’t need eyes to see.
I won’t say the books are perfect. There’s plenty of kinks in the storyline and some things that simply remain inscrutable - that’s the beauty of quantum physics, no one really understands it. Ultimately, I didn’t find the fuzzy science detracted from the story - it just IS part of the story. Pay attention though, Simmons is a reverse engineer of a story teller. Tiny, tossed off tidbits become major story elements down the line, remembering them will ease the brain fog.
The audiobook recording is pretty good, no-frills. There are a few minor sound engineering flubs and a couple misread names, text editorial mistakes or narrator errors? These are annoyances considering what we pay for audiobooks, but the story is good enough to hold up under someone else's sloppy technical job.
The narrator is very good, he reels off arcane Greek names like a pro - and also does a fine Classic Lit Professor. Quibbles with the style of audiobook narrators are highly subjective and par for the course. I had mine with this one, but overall I think he gave a great performance.
All in all - great book, I highly recommend it for when you want a long, lazy ride on a sci-fi crazy train.