- Gebundene Ausgabe: 704 Seiten
- Verlag: Harper Voyager (28. Juni 2005)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0380978946
- ISBN-13: 978-0380978946
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 24,1 x 15,7 x 4,8 cm
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Welcome back to the Trojan War gone round the bend. Hector and Achilles have joined forces against the Olympic Gods. Back on a future Earth, assorted creatures from Shakespeare's The Tempest get ready to rumble in a winner-takes-the-universe battle royale. And amid it all, a group of confused mere mortals with their classically trained robot allies (from Jupiter no less) race across time and space to keep from getting squashed as the various Titans of the Western Canon square off.
Confused? It's all part of Dan Simmons's Olympos, a novel one part fun-with-quantum-physics and two parts through-the-looking-glass survey of Western Literature. Picking up where he left off in the high-wire act Ilium, Simmons doesn't disappoint. Not only is Olympos excellent hard science fiction and grand space opera, it's a riveting and fast-paced book that is alternately shocking, thrilling, and often deftly hilarious as his hapless human creations wrestle the forces of literary history itself. Be sure to read Ilium first though. That and a more-than passing familiarity with The Illiad might come in handy for the journey to Mars, Ilium's far-off shores, and the Earth that might be. --Jeremy Pugh
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The final volume in Simmons' retelling of the Iliad begins with the Greeks and Trojans, led by Achilles and Hector, laying siege to the home of the gods when Agamemnon returns with the news that everyone outside of Troy has vanished. From that point, the novel becomes a huge maelstrom of characters from history, mythology, and literature and of beings of vast powers warring against one another and the humans in their various strongholds in a conflict that threatens to destroy the solar system, at the very least. Simmons tells each segment of this saga from a single viewpoint and thereby enables the reader to keep going without getting lost. Simmons fans and those who like whale-sized stories, not to mention those who want to see what happens after the action of Ilium (2003), will enjoy Olympos. Frieda Murray
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To be honest, I was pretty much lost on the science part of the story Dan Simmons was spinning in "Ilium" from the very beginning and when I picked up "Olympos" to read it was not in the hope that I would be able to catch up in that regard. By the time I finished the 735-page book I had really assumed that I just did not understand the science and how the three main plotlines of this sprawling narrative came together in the end. However, seeing all these reviews bemoaning a coherent conclusion that ties up all of the major threads leads me to believe that is not just my lack of understanding of quantum physics and the like that was why I was not really sure what it all meant in the end.
Certainly these two novels constitute an ambitious effort by Simmons. I was attracted to "Ilium" because I teach Classical Greek and Roman Mythology, look for any opportunity to teach Homer's "Iliad," and am even working on my own retelling of the Trojan War on the off chance that I can actually write something besides instructor's notes and reviews. So I found the idea of posthumans masquerading as the Greek gods, living on Mars, and playing games with the real Trojan War, rather compelling because Simmons was using hard (and futuristic) science to duplicate the powers of the gods. Besides, obviously I was going to identify with Thomas Hockenberry, the classics professor who had been resurrected as a scholic and not because he ends up in the bed of Helen of Troy (I find Andromache to be a lot more attractive as a human being and what would Cassandra think of somebody who actually believed her?).
But Simmons is not content to combine up Greek epic poetry and quantum physics, but also throws in Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" and even more literature into the mix. If anything, the attempt is already overly ambitious at that point and we still have all of those additional elements like the moravecs and voynix on the science fiction side of the equation. I end up thinking that more would be less because all of this is too much. Maybe the second time through I will be able to better pick up how it all fits together better, but right now that idea is rather daunting.
Speaking as a student of mythology I will say that I really liked how Simmons played out his revision of the "Iliad." I had noted in my review of "Ilium" that there was a point where clearly we were not in the "Iliad" anymore, so when Hockenberry noted that this was literarily the case because what was happening was from Virgil's "Aeneid," that was my biggest laugh in reading "Olympos." Beyond that I really liked the idea that the invulnerability of Achilles, son of Peleus, came not from being dipped in the River Styx or having his mortality burned away (except for the heel in both cases), but from being a quantum singularity who is "fated" to be killed by Paris (and also by not being the son of Peleus). Once Paris is dead, Achilles is doing well. I also liked the scientific explanation for why he falls hoplessly in love with the Amazon Queen Penthesilea and what Achilles does about that love after he kills her (I really liked the idea that Penthesilea is armed with the knowledge of Achilles' fatal flaw and realizes at the key moment that she does not know WHICH heel to strike).
Ultimately the problem for me is simply that I never cared about any chapter that did not have Achilles, Hockenberry, or the gods in it (I hung in there with Odysseus for a while, but the more he became Noman it seemed the less I was interested). As interested as I was in the parts playing with mythology I would find myself zoning out way too often while reading the other parts of the novel. Since only one of the three worked for me and it really did not come together in a way that completed a sense of wonder at the massive narrative, that became the logic by which I came up with my rating for this book. I still think "Olympos" is worth reading, especially after you have invested time in "Ilium," but also because of what he does in making the "Iliad" his own.
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Dan Simmons verdanken wir mein Science-Fiction Lieblingswerk: Den Hyperion Zyklus. Auch seine Joe Kurz Krimis sind kurzweilig und unterhaltsam. Mit Ilium hat auch die neue Saga ganz ordentlich begonnen. Zwar schreit das Ende von Ilium förmlich nach einer Fortsetzung und Auflösung der Hintergrundgeschichten. Diese wurden aber in Olympos zum Teil gar nicht aufgelöst (was hat es mit den Moravecs auf sich? warum haben sich die Nachmenschen so entwickelt? was ist der tiefere Sinn der Wiederauflage von Homers Geschichte?) oder nur enttäuschend schwach erklärt (woher kommen die Voynix? Wer ist Caliban?). Man wird beim Lesen des Buches das Gefühl nicht los, dass Simmons noch ein paar Bände geplant hatte und diese dann auf ein Buch zusammenkürzen musste. Zum Teil werden Handlungsstränge angerissen, die keinen erkennbaren Beitrag zur Geschichte leisten. Welchen Sinn hat beispielsweise das Ubootwrack?
Richtig sauer stossen die primitiven rassitischen Tendenzen auf. Natürlich waren es böse Islamisten, die die Menschheit durch einen Virus an den Rand der Ausrottung führten und die die Erde dann auch noch durch schwarze Löcher vernichten wollten. Das Ganze gemischt mit einer großen Portion Logikfehler (wozu schießt man Waffen die die den ganzen Planeten vernichten sollen mit Raketen in gegnerische Städte anstatt sie einfach frei zu setzen?) verleitet den Leser mehrmals dazu, das Buch zu schließen und tief durch zu atmen. Nur die Hoffnung auf ein sinnvolles Ende brachte mich dazu weiter zu lesen. Zwischendurch sorgen immer wieder seitenlange Shakespeare Zitate für erhöhten Adrenalinausstoss. Will Simmons beweisen dass er Shakespeare gelesen hat, oder wozu sollen diese Exkurse gut sein? Der Story bringen sie jedenfalls nichts.
Am Ende werden dann noch die armen verfolgten Juden befreit, die einem Lichtstrahl wie der Arche Noah pärchenweise entsteigen, die Kavallarie reitet ein und die Pioniere leben fortan glücklich und zufrieden im Indianerland. Einfältiger und klischeehafter kann man ein Buch kaum zu Ende bringen.
Fazit: Am besten nur Ilium lesen und den Abschluss der Story seiner eigenen Phantasie überlassen. Die ist in dem Fall wahrscheinlich kreativer als Dan Simmons.
Richtig sauer stossen die primitiven rassitischen Tendenzen auf. Natürlich waren es böse Islamisten, die die Menschheit durch einen Virus an den Rand der Ausrottung führten und die die Erde dann auch noch durch schwarze Löcher vernichten wollten. Das Ganze gemischt mit einer großen Portion Logikfehler (wozu schießt man Waffen die die den ganzen Planeten vernichten sollen mit Raketen in gegnerische Städte anstatt sie einfach frei zu setzen?) verleitet den Leser mehrmals dazu, das Buch zu schließen und tief durch zu atmen. Nur die Hoffnung auf ein sinnvolles Ende brachte mich dazu weiter zu lesen. Zwischendurch sorgen immer wieder seitenlange Shakespeare Zitate für erhöhten Adrenalinausstoss. Will Simmons beweisen dass er Shakespeare gelesen hat, oder wozu sollen diese Exkurse gut sein? Der Story bringen sie jedenfalls nichts.
Am Ende werden dann noch die armen verfolgten Juden befreit, die einem Lichtstrahl wie der Arche Noah pärchenweise entsteigen, die Kavallarie reitet ein und die Pioniere leben fortan glücklich und zufrieden im Indianerland. Einfältiger und klischeehafter kann man ein Buch kaum zu Ende bringen.
Fazit: Am besten nur Ilium lesen und den Abschluss der Story seiner eigenen Phantasie überlassen. Die ist in dem Fall wahrscheinlich kreativer als Dan Simmons.
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I really, really don't want to, but I still have to agree with some the previous review. After the quite engaging and interesting "Illium" the sequel comes as a major disappointment. Whereas in Simmons's "Hyperion"/"The Fall of Hyperion" novels the second instalment really concluded the narrative - not just by coherently tying up loose ends, but also by offering stunning plot-twists and a deeper exploration of the world created in the fist novel - "Olympos" turns out to be a complete waste of potential. None of the mysteries generated in "Illium" are satisfyingly resolved, nor does this novel offer any new perspective on the world of "Illium" and its inhabitants. Besides some lame and positively colonialist intertextual references to Shakespeare and Homer (apparently the only authors next to some other white males who will survive the test of time) the novel does not have much to offer. The plot just goes nowhere, the characters, especially Hockenberry, are reduced to caricatures, and the complex context story hinted at in the first novel gradually disintegrates into nothingness. Simmons is too much of a classicist to grand him an experimental excurse into postmodern narrative techniques of controlled incoherence. The arbitrary, illogical, and sometimes nonsensical plot construction (what the hell was this whole submarine storyline all about?) is not an attempt at ironic self-deconstruction, it is just bad plotting. Additionally the racist-undertones, anti-Islamic resentments, homophobic/sexist one-liners, and soft-porn sex scenes give the novel a reactionary 1950s SF touch. It's a shame to see the very author who revolutionized the space opera in the late 1980s return the genre to its male/white/conservative origins without offering any of its excitements.
Two points for some nice set-pieces. But that's all there is in the end.
Two points for some nice set-pieces. But that's all there is in the end.
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Olympos ist die Fortsetzung des Science-Fiction-William-Shakespeare-Homer-Proust-Fantasy-Romans Ilium (Ilium. (Gollancz SF) (Gollancz) (GollanczF.)). Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 5 Monaten von Christian Johann veröffentlicht
Weak sequel...
The sequel to Ilium, the story of the Trojan war re-enacted to amuse genetically engineered greek would-be gods, is a little disappointing. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. August 2008 von Jens Weingarten
Die totale Entäuschung
Zwar war Ilium schon nicht annähernd so stark wie die Hyperion-Serie, aber immerhin war ich bereit, dem Autor auf seinem Weg, Homer nachzuerzählen und drumherum eine... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. Juli 2005 von Christof Liebers
fantastic sequel to Illium...
After reading Illium by Dan Simmons (the prequel to this book) in german, I really couldn't wait to get the sequel and bougth the english edition. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. Juli 2005 von Martinez Fanderio
much ado about nothing
nachdem ich den vorgänger ilium sehr ansprechend fand habe ich mir auch olympos zu gemüte geführt. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. Juli 2005 von wolfvr
simply unbelievable good
First of all, I had to say that I was rather sceptic than optimistic after reading the first part "Ilium" (in german), if the second part could fulfil what "Ilium" promised. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. Juli 2005 von Gregor Claus
simply unbelievable good
First of all, I had to say that I was rather sceptic than optimistic after reading the first part "Ilium" (in german), if the second part could fulfil what "Ilium" promised. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. Juli 2005 von Gregor Claus
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