Along with Ada's friend Hannah, the four are set off on a journey to figure out what's wrong with the world. A young man named Daeman struggles to make his cousin Ada notice him, but she only has eyes for an older man named Harman.
Meanwhile, on Earth, humanity seems to be hugely reduced in population the few societies that exist have everything they could ever want, due to instantaneous teleportation and advanced technology, but they live in relative ignorance of the past. And it's Thomas's job to compare the events of the re-enactment to actual history. In fact they're post-humans pretending to be the Greek gods, and they're amusing themselves by re-enacting the entire Trojan War on a terraformed Mars. Professor Thomas Hockenberry, a Homeric scholar from the 20th century, finds himself resurrected in the far future by the Greek Gods. Though it touches on many topics, the story is perhaps best described as a high-tech reenactment of The Trojan War.
It's a sprawling epic story that is conveyed through three seemingly disconnected but intertwining narratives. Ilium is a Speculative Fiction novel by writer Dan Simmons.
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