Ilium
Télécharger Ilium PDF Fichier Dan Simmons - pFrom the towering heights of Olympos Mons on Mars the mighty Zeus and his immortal family of gods goddesses and demigods look down upon a momentous battle observing and often influencing the legendary exploits of Paris Achilles Hector Odysseus and the clashing armies of Greece and Troy p pThomas Hockenberry former twentyfirstcentury professor and Iliad scholar watches as well It is Hockenberrys duty to observe and report on the Trojan Wars progress to the socalled deities who saw fit to return him from the dead But the muse he serves has a new assignment for the wary scholic one dictated by Aphrodite herself p pWith the help of fortiethcentury technology Hockenberry is to infiltrate Olympos spy on its divine inhabitants and ultimately destroy Aphrodites sister and rival the goddess Pallas Athena On an Earth profoundly changed since the departure of the PostHumans centuries earlier the great events on the bloody plains of Ilium serve as mere entertainment p pIts scenes of unrivaled heroics and unequaled carnage add excitement to human lives devoid of courage strife labor and purpose But this eloilike existence is not enough for Harman a man in the last year of his last Twenty That rarest of postpostmodern men an adventurer he intends to explore far beyond the boundaries of his world before his allotted time expires in search of a lost past a devastating truth and an escape from his own inevitable final fax Meanwhile from the radiationswept reaches of Jovian space four sentient machines race to investigate and perhaps terminate the potentially catastrophic emissions of unexplained quantumflux emanating from a mountaintop miles above the terraformed surface of Mars p
Details of Ilium
| Book's Title | Ilium |
| Author | Dan Simmons |
| Category | Livres anglais et étrangers |
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| Customer's Rating | 4.6 stars of 5 from 117 Readers |
| Filename | ilium.pdf |
| Filesize | 18.34 MB (current server's speed is 22.12 Mbps |
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