Sci-fi meetup online: "Ilium" by Dan Simmons

Hello, everyone!

Welcome to the first sci-fi meetup of 2026! This time we are tackling "Ilium" by Dan Simmons.

GOODREADS SUMMARY

The Trojan War rages at the foot of Olympos Mons on Mars—observed and influenced from on high by Zeus and his immortal family—and twenty-first-century professor Thomas Hockenberry is there to play a role in the insidious private wars of vengeful gods and goddesses. On Earth, a small band of the few remaining humans pursues a lost past and devastating truth—as four sentient machines depart from Jovian space to investigate, perhaps terminate, the potentially catastrophic emissions emanating from a mountaintop miles above the terraformed surface of the Red Planet.

(https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3973.Ilium)

THE FOLLOWING BOOK

In the meetup to follow, we will read "The Man Who Saw Seconds" by Alexander Boldizar.

JOIN US ONLINE

We use Jitsi Meet to meet online. You can join the link from 18:20 onwards.

ALL ARE WELCOME

We're a friendly crowd that welcomes newcomers, and who sometimes manages to even stay on topic. Join for a good conversation even if you don't manage to finish the book ^_^