![]() But the gist of the saga is that someone is playing with universes in a potentially destructive way. It is impossible to give a brief and pithy synopsis of a book like this its ideas can't be contained so easily. But it's worth the effort, even as you're running out of breath. Olympos is precisely the opposite: a book that delivers so much so effectively, you might find yourself running to keep up. But usually it's a problem for the wrong reasons i.e., the classic case of talent failing ambition, an author's chops not being quite up to the task of pulling off what he or she is attempting. At the same time, the sheer heft of this story can be exhausting - always a problem with epics. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a testament to SF's capacity to allow authors to think big in a way that hasn't been seen in literature since, well, Homer, it's hard to imagine any stronger qualifier than Olympos. If Ilium left you wondering whether it were possible for Dan Simmons to make this gargantuan far-future saga of crosstime war and posthuman hubris any bigger, any stranger, and any more spectacular - with Olympos you have your answer. ![]()
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