The resolution to <Ilium> calls upon every power at the reader's command, including a vasty knowledge of Proust, Shakespeare's Dark Lady arc, and the Homerics. As such, added into the weave of high level SF, this novel should not succeed, but for me--it does. However, I find it to have the least "heart" of any of the four Cantos that Simmons has written. Technically brilliant,...
more The resolution to <Ilium> calls upon every power at the reader's command, including a vasty knowledge of Proust, Shakespeare's Dark Lady arc, and the Homerics. As such, added into the weave of high level SF, this novel should not succeed, but for me--it does. However, I find it to have the least "heart" of any of the four Cantos that Simmons has written. Technically brilliant, beautifully voiced, it still feels cold in comparison to Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion.
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