Olympus. 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 are reasonable Morakh-Morak robots who arrived with Jupiter’s lunas to explore the abnormal quantum activity of Mars, discussing the comparative virtues of Shakespeare and Proust along the way, go to the almost depopulated land on the Queen Maba nuclear-pulse, urgently built on phobos for the form of earthly science of the sample The 1950s, and take with them the Odyssey with their own person; Here the Greeks and Trojans are united against the Olympic gods, who use all the miracles of nanotechnology; Here is the Shakespearean Prospero, he is also the avatar of the earth's noosphere, travels to Eiffelban from Everest to the extreme tip of Portugal, where the Atlantic gap begins...