Olympos, Dan Simmons

Umm. Wow. I stayed up much too late last night to finish this. It isn't, properly speaking, a novel in itself; it's the second half of the story started in Ilium. I've been looking forward to it since before it was even listed on Amazon (and I wasn't the only one, judging by the fact that 'Simmons Olympos' was a suggested search months before there was anything for it to find), and I wasn't disappointed. Even on its own, it's probably one of the two or three best books I've read all year. Taken together, the two books make up a dazzling achievement that deserves to become a classic.

It isn't perfect, of course.

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