terraforming

Rewriting the Gods of Ilium Dan Simmons’s ‘Ilium ‘is a sprawling, genre-blending epic that reimagines Homer’s Iliad through a futuristic, science-fictional lens. Set across multiple timelines and locations—including a terraformed Mars and a post-human Earth—Ilium weaves three major narrative threads together. The first thread follows Thomas Hockenberry, a 20th-century HomericContinue Reading