Ilium review
Jun. 19th, 2009 10:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearOkay, so there are some post-apocalyptic people trying to find a spaceship so they can travel to where they think their ancestors have disappeared to. And there are some Shakespeare-obsessed robots planning to destroy Mars because they think the humans are building some kind of weapon there. Oh yes, and the Trojan War is playing out under the observation of classical scholars resurrected from the 21st century.
Dan Simmons has really mastered the art of confusion in Ilium.
I rather liked the robots, and the Trojan War stuff got rather amusing once the scholars started interfering and it veered away from the expected plot. However, the post-apocalyptic human storyline never really engaged me and never actually connected up with the other two (the Trojan War stuff turned out to be on Mars and took a turn for the even more bizarre when the robots turned up and started taking sides), so it seemed rather superfluous.
Nothing was ever really explained, and I think there may be others in the series, but this one (whilst intriguing and occasionally very entertaining) was definitely enough for me.
Dan Simmons has really mastered the art of confusion in Ilium.
I rather liked the robots, and the Trojan War stuff got rather amusing once the scholars started interfering and it veered away from the expected plot. However, the post-apocalyptic human storyline never really engaged me and never actually connected up with the other two (the Trojan War stuff turned out to be on Mars and took a turn for the even more bizarre when the robots turned up and started taking sides), so it seemed rather superfluous.
Nothing was ever really explained, and I think there may be others in the series, but this one (whilst intriguing and occasionally very entertaining) was definitely enough for me.
