...and as of today, Digital Domain and Barnet Bain Films have optioned the rights to "Ilium" and "Olympos", with Simmons as screenwriter, so maybe in a few years we'll get to see Burning Man in the 40th century on the big screen!

Seriously? It would be "Burning Mans", in the same way that the term for more than one fly ball is flys instead of flies, or the term for more than one computer mouse is mouses, not mice. Attribution here to Steven Pinker in his book "Words and Rules", which examines the roots of language and intere...

I have now finished it and it was a great read--nothing to do with Hyperion, although there are tangential references. You are correct in that it ends at a major unresolved confrontation, and now I'm dying to read "Olympos". Simmons must be a previous attendee or a fan--ultimately the characters don...

I'm currently reading "Ilium" by Dan Simmons, his latest in hardcover. If you're an SF fan, Simmons does some killer work in the genre. Even if you're not, Simmons is simply a fine writer, worthy of your time. "Ilium" is already too complicated at 80 or so pages into it to summarize here, but some o...