num_pages: 642
description: Taking the events and characters of the Iliad as his jumping- off point, Dan Simmons has created an epic of time travel and savage warfare. Travellers from 40,000 years in the future return to Homer's Greece and rewrite history forever, their technology impacting on the population in a godlike fashion. This is broad scope space opera rich in classical and literary allusion, from one of the key figures in 1990s world SF. Ilium marks a return to the genre for one of its greats.
language: English
title: Ilium
titlecomplete: Ilium (Ilium, #1)
characters: Hector of Troy, Odysseus, Mahnmut, Hockenberry, Achilles, Orphu
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Mythology, Fantasy
ratings_count: 29691
series: Ilium
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Cena Akademie SFFH
category: Kniha roku (Book of the Year)
publisher: Gollancz