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Olympics

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Olympics
19.99 €
Modern classic Dan Simmons is the acclaimed author of Terror, Drood and The Fifth Heart, the fantasy epic Hyperion/Endymion, The Dark Game of Death and Summer of Night, winner and finalist for nearly a hundred prestigious literary awards in a wide variety of genres (Hugo, "Nebula", the World Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Locus Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, and many others, including Japanese, German, French, Italian, and Spanish awards). In the "Troy" dilogy, made up of the novels "Ilion" and "Olympus", he finally returned to the genre that made him famous at the beginning of his career - large-scale space opera with many allusions from classical literature. Here intelligent robots-Moravec, who came from the moons of Jupiter to investigate the anomalous quantum activity of Mars, discussing on the way the comparative merits of Shakespeare and Proust, go to the almost depopulated Earth on a nuclear-pulse ship "Queen Mab", urgently built on Phobos on the advanced word of Earth science model of the 1950s, and take with them Odysseus himself; here the Greeks and Trojans unite against the Olympian gods who take advantage of all the wonders of nanotechnology; here Shakespeare's Prospero, aka the avatar of Earth's noosphere, travels by Eiffelbahn from Everest to the extreme tip of Portugal, where the Atlantic Gap begins...
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