Ilion
ISBN:
9788674361931 (8674361935)
Publish date: 2004
Publisher: Laguna
Pages no: 613
Edition language: Serbian
I love the idea of a throwback, an author who takes cues from classics and puts a new spin on them. Mieville took rollicking pulp and updated it, Susanna Clarke made fairy tales and the Gothic novel sing for a modern audience--but if you're going to write in the style of a bygone great, take only th...
Christmas 2010: I realised that I had got stuck in a rut. I was re-reading old favourites again and again, waiting for a few trusted authors to release new works. Something had to be done.On the spur of the moment I set myself a challenge, to read every book to have won the Locus Sci-Fi award. That’...
I get a strange vibe from this book so far. I do not mind spoilers, so I have read quite a few other reviews and I understand that three storylines will get closer and closer, but so far while I love Illiad based storyline, I find the other two quite boring and hard to get into. We shall see if I ch...
Spectacular. I loved the interplay between the robots, the literary references, and the reimagining of the Iliad. The lynchpin of the story is why would the post humans do such a thing is an unresolved question, but perhaps the answer lies somewhere in the ocean of human weakness and the temptatio...
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