Taking the events and characters of the Iliad as his jumping- off point, Dan Simmons has created an epic of time travel and savage warfare. Travellers from 40,000 years in the future return to Homer's Greece and rewrite history forever, their technology impacting on the population in a godlike fashion.This is broad scope space opera rich in classical and literary allusion, from one of the key figures in 1990s world SF. Ilium marks a return to the genre for one of its greats.
The Orion Publishing Group is working with D&AD to find exciting new covers for selected Gollancz Space Opera books. This is one of those books. The designs will be chosen from work submitted by the most talented of today's art and design students. See the list of Gollancz Space Opera books included and find out how to enter the 2008 D&AD Global Student Awards