This assignment, however, quickly leads to many unexpected events that could potentially change the course of the battle and threaten the fates of many Greek and Trojan heroes. As the books opens, Hockenberry is in his ninth year of service and has been summoned to Mount Olympos where he is recruited for a special mission. Using advanced technology provided by these gods, Hockenberry, along with a few others, is ordered to hide amongst the warring soldiers and report to a vengeful Muse how the action he observes matches the story he knew in his previous life. Their purpose in bringing him back is so he can observe Greek armies laying siege to Troy in a manner seemingly lifted from the pages of Homer’s Iliad. Much to his confusion and frustration, he has been reanimated from his DNA in an indeterminate time by beings that appear to be the gods of classical Greece. These groups cover a lot of ground in both time and space but converge towards the end.įirst we are introduced to a late 20th/early 21st century classics professor named Thomas Hockenberry. Plot Summary: The action in this story takes place a few thousand years in the future and is split across three separate groups. I knew I wanted to read more of him and the Ilium/ Olympos duology seemed like the most interesting next step for me. I enjoyed the author’s writing style as he mixed a lot of different genres into the same “medium” Sci Fi narrative while heavily referencing other literary works (most notably the poetry of John Keats and the Canterbury Tales) to shape his story. I first read Dan Simmons earlier this year when I picked up Hyperion.
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