in English from Wabash College in 1970, winning a national Phi Beta Kappa Award during his senior year for excellence in fiction, journalism and art.ĭan received his Masters in Education from Washington University in St. Very disappointing.Dan Simmons grew up in various cities and small towns in the Midwest, including Brimfield, Illinois, which was the source of his fictional "Elm Haven" in 1991's SUMMER OF NIGHT and 2002's A WINTER HAUNTING. Probably the worst I've ever read by Simmons. So many questions posed in the first volume is either answered with a hand wave or just left unanswered. I'm fairly sure that Simmons became aware of this himself, somewhere along the way, as the ending smell badly of quick wrap up. The usage of quantum magic (because that's what it is in this book) becomes so strong, that all plot lines could be fairly easily fixed by just saying “and the quantum master made it so”. Simmons managed to paint himself into a corner. And slowly, somewhere half way through Olympos, you start to get the feeling that nothing, that has happened until then, really matters.
The post-humans has a hand in everything.
The old-style people of earth are getting massacred. The old Greek gods still fight around Ilium and Olympus, sometimes among them self, sometimes on the side of various humans. Basically Olympos is more of the same of what we got in Ilium. I'll try not to spoil anything, if for some reason, you would want to read these two books, but it's kind of hard not to touch a bit upon the ending as it's such a large part of the problem. In other words Olympos stinks, and the stench is so bad that it reaches backwards in time and taints the Ilium volume. But after having read the second volume Olympos, it's hard for me to remember what exactly was so great about it. I really loved the first volume in Dan Simmons Ilium/Olympos saga. It's strange how something good, can be turned by it's association with something bad. Olympos is a science fiction novel by the award winning author Dan Simmons.
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