Ilium (73 page)

While many translations of the
Iliad
were referred to in preparation for the writing of this novel, I would specifically like to acknowledge the following translators—Robert Fagles, Richmond Lattimore, Alexander Pope, George Chapman, Robert Fitzgerald, and Allen Mandelbaum. The beauty of their translations is manifold and their talent is beyond this writer’s comprehension.

For ancillary poetry or imaginative
Iliad
-related prose which helped shape this volume, I would especially like to acknowledge the work of W. H. Auden, Robert Browning, Robert Graves, Christopher Logue, Robert Lowell, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

For research and commentary on the
Iliad
and Homer, I would like to acknowledge the work of Bernard Knox, Richmond Lattimore, Malcolm M. Willcock, A.J.B. Wace, F. H. Stubbings, C. Kerenyi, and members of the Homeric
scholia
too numerous to mention.

For insightful commentary on Shakespeare and Browning’s “Caliban upon Setebos,” I gratefully acknowledge the writings of Harold Bloom, W. H. Auden, and the editors of the
Norton Anthology of English Literature.
For an insight into Auden’s interpretation of “Caliban upon Setebos” and other aspects of Caliban, I refer readers to Edward Mendelson’s
Later Auden.

“Mahnmut’s” insights into the sonnets of Shakespeare were largely guided by Helen Vendler’s wonderful
The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
.

Many of “Orphu of Io’s” comments on the work of Marcel Proust were inspired by Roger Shattuck’s
Proust’s Way: A Field Guide to
In Search of Lost Time.

To readers interested in emulating Mahnmut’s Bardolotous love of Shakespeare, I would recommend Harold Bloom’s
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human,
Herman Gollob’s
Me and Shakespeare: Adventures with the Bard,
and
Shakespeare: A Life
by Park Honan
.

For detailed maps of Mars (before the terraforming), I owe a great debt of gratitude to NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and
Uncovering the Secrets of the Red Planet,
published by the National Geographic Society, edited by Paul Raeburn, with forward and commentary by Matt Golombeck.
Scientific American
has been a rich source of detail, and acknowledgment should go to such articles as “The Hidden Ocean of Europa,” by Robert T. Pappalardo, James W. Head, and Ronald Greeley (October 1999), “Quantum Teleportation” by Anton Zeilinger (April 2000), and “How to Build a Time Machine” by Paul Davies (September 2002).

Finally, my thanks to Clee Richeson for details on how to build a homemade casting furnace with a wooden cupola.

Dan Simmons is the Hugo Award-winning author of
Hyperion
and T
he Fall of Hyperion
and their sequels,
Endymion
and
The Rise of Endymion
. He has written the critically acclaimed suspense novels
Darwin’s Blade
and
The Crook Factory
, as well as other highly respected works including
Summer of Night
, its sequel
A Winter Haunting
, and
Song of Kali
,
Carrion Comfort
, and
World’s Enough & Time
. Simmons makes his home in Colorado.

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Carrion Comfort
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The Fall of Hyperion
Prayers to Broken Stones
Summer of Night
The Hollow Man
Children of the Night
Summer Sketches
Lovedeath
Fires of Eden
Endymion
The Rise of Endymion
The Crook Factory
Darwin’s Blade
A Winter Haunting
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Hard Freeze
Worlds Enough & Time

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following:

Random House to reprint from Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 1 by Marcel Proust, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terrence Kilmartin, copyright © 1981 by Random House, Inc., and Chatto & Windus. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.

University of Chicago Press to reprint from The Iliad, Book IX, translated by Richard Lattimore, copyright 1951, by the University of Chicago Press. Used by permission of University of Chicago Press.

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