Ilion. Simmons D.

Modern classic Dan Simmons is the famous author of “Terror”, “Drud” and “Fifth Heart”, the fantastic epic “Hyperion” / “Endimion”, “The Dark Game of Death” and “The Summer of the Night”, the laureate and the finalist of almost a hundred prestigious literary awards in a variety of genres (“Hugo”, “Nebel”, Fantasy World Award, Bram Stoker Award, Locus journal, Arthur Clark Prize, British Science Fiction Association, as well as many others, including Japanese , German, French, Italian, Spanish awards).

in the Dilogy “Troy”, compiled by the novels “Ilion” and “Olympus”, he finally returned to the genre that glorified him at the beginning of his career, a large -scale space opera with many allusions from classical literature. Here, reasonable Morakh-Morace robots, having gone from Jupiter’s moon to explore the abnormal quantum activity of Mars, discuss along the way the comparative advantages of Shakespeare and Proust; Here, the Olympic gods who use all the miracles of nanotechnology send resurrected scholian scientists to observe the progress of the Trojan War; Here, only a million people leave the post-men on Earth, and now a certain collector of butterflies arrives at the Ardis Hall estate, intending to seduce the young hell... The translation is published in the new edition.