![]() That… that must be it, but don’t ask me to be confident about this. ![]() Now, all these extra-universal things and emergent consciousnesses took up the identities of literary gods and then opened a portal to the distant past of Greek antiquity. ![]() In the sarcastic words of Terry Pratchett: “it must be quantum.” Post-humans had opened holes in the fabric of space-time and things came out. Simmons does provide some answers in Ilium to how this is possible. How does this click together? Throughout the story, Simmons gave hints that these characters – Achilles, Odysseus, and characters from The Tempest, like the wizard Prospero and the monster Caliban – are the actual characters from the books. You see, this science fiction world is constructed as conceivably our future, but the literary characters come from books. And to be honest, the two genres mixed a bit like oil and water. That was an exciting idea but it was also a bit confusing. Ilium attempted to combine high science fiction concepts with both Greek mythology and Shakespeare’s The Tempest. ![]() Iliumwas great, but now it is time to get some answers. ![]()
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