Book review
Ilium
Dan Simmons combines the Trojan War and Greek mythology with science fiction across Mars, Earth and the Jovian system. An overlong novel for my taste, with unfamiliar allusions affecting the reading experience.
Ilium by Dan Simmons is a tome of a book that mixes sci-fi with Greek mythology. Although I have some basic understanding of that period, I think I lacked some background to enjoy some of the subtleties. Besides that I also found it to be too long (description of traveling or other such things) for the content. And of course, it stops right before a climactic fight which will be the start of Olympos (part 2 of duology).
External synopsis in the original notes: the story moves among the Trojan War on Mars, resurrected Homeric scholar Hockenberry, and other far-future characters. A fuller plot outline was linked from Wikipedia.