Looks like I’ve found my next train-ride distraction

I first came across Dan Simmons’ work with the Ilium series, a fictional re-hash of Homer’s Iliad where (SPOILER) the gods are actually postmodern humans who have brought the Greeks and Trojans back to life for fun. I really enjoyed the two novels in this duology, so much so I went out looking for more Dan Simmons work. That’s when I came across the Hyperion Cantos, a four book series that is one ripper of a read.

Can’t wait to see the conversion of this to a movie, though I hope it gets to stay truer to the novel than the Peter Jackson/Tolkien efforts of recent years. That being said, Hyperion Cantos isn’t quite as ‘heavy’ as the LOTR books.