Ilium pdf 丹·西蒙斯
Ilium by Dan Simmons is a grand tale that unfolds from the majestic heights of Olympos Mons on Mars. From this vantage point, Zeus and his divine family, along with various gods, goddesses, and demigods, oversee and often intervene in the legendary conflicts of Greece and Troy, where heroes like Paris, Achilles, Hector, and Odysseus clash. Thomas Hockenberry, a scholar of the Iliad from the twenty-first century, also observes these events. His unique duty is to witness and report on the progress of the Trojan War to the deities who resurrected him. However, his muse, Aphrodite, assigns him a new mission: to infiltrate Olympus, spy on its divine residents, and ultimately eliminate her sister and rival, Pallas Athena.
On an Earth vastly changed since the departure of the Post-Humans, the violent battles in Ilium serve as entertainment in a world devoid of courage, struggle, labor, and purpose. Yet, one man, Harman, an "adventurer" in his final year of life, seeks to explore beyond his world's boundaries in search of a lost past and a way to escape his inevitable "final fax."
Meanwhile, from the radiation-exposed realms of Jovian space, four sentient machines race to investigate and potentially halt the mysterious quantum-flux emissions originating from a mountain on Mars' terraformed surface.
This novel is the first part of an extraordinary two-part epic, to be concluded in Olympos. Ilium is a breathtaking adventure that spans time and space, interweaving three seemingly unrelated stories in fresh and unexpected ways. It stands as a masterful work of speculative fiction and one of Dan Simmons's most remarkable achievements in his illustrious literary career.