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Description
Classics professor Thomas Hockenberry, Ph.D is one of the 21st
century "scholics" resurrected thousands of years in the future to
monitor events of the Trojan War (on Mars) and compare what happens
to the events in Homer's "Iliad." One of the tools scholics have at
their disposal is a "morphing bracelet" which allows the scholics
to replace any of the characters' "quantum waveforms" in order to
observe events. Through most of the book, Hockenberry has mostly
morphed nondescript male Greeks and Trojans (a notable exception
being a one-night stand with Helen of Troy as Paris). However, when
he finally chooses to rebel against his godly masters, Hockenberry
briefly uses the forms of the goddesses Athena and Thetis to set
his plan into motion.
The TG parts of the book are very minimal given its length (with
multiple initially unrelated plotlines) and probably alone are not
worth buying the book. However, Ilium is probably one of the better
hard sci-fi novels of recent years, and I definitely recommend it
to anyone who loves the Greek classics and Shakespeare.
originally posted by DaveS on 2006-02-05, no edits, entryid=918
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