Olympus

The contemporary classic Dan Simmons - celebrated author of "The Terror", "Drood", and "The Fifth Heart", the science fiction epic "Hyperion" / "Endymion", "The Dark Game of Death", and "Summer of Night", laureate and finalist of nearly a hundred prestigious... literary awards in various genres ("Hugo", "Nebula", World Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Award, "Locus" Magazine Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, and many others, including Japanese, German, French, Italian, and Spanish awards).
In the duology "Troy", consisting of the novels "Ilium" and "Olympus", he finally returned to the genre that made him famous early in his career - a grand space opera with many allusions from classic literature. Here, intelligent Moravek robots, arriving from the moons of Jupiter to investigate the anomalous quantum activity of Mars, discuss the relative merits of Shakespeare and Proust on their way to the almost deserted Earth aboard the nuclear-pulse ship "Queen Mab", quickly built on Phobos using the cutting-edge terrestrial science of the 1950s, and they take Odysseus himself along; here, Greeks and Trojans unite against the Olympic gods, who wield all the wonders of nanotechnology; here, Shakespearean Prospero, also the avatar of the earthly noosphere, travels by Eiffelbahn from Everest to the farthest tip of Portugal, where the Atlantic Breach begins...
The translation is published in a new edition.