Dan Simmons ( born April 4, 1948 ) is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium / Olympos cycle.

* Ilium / Olympus series ( 2003-) by Dan Simmons.

* Dan Simmons's Ilium / Olympos novels use the Noosphere as a way to explain the origins of powerful entities such as Ariel and Prospero, the former arising from a network of datalogging mote machines, and the latter of whom derives from a post-Internet logosphere.

Upon seeing Helen, Faustus speaks the famous line: " Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, / And burnt the topless towers of Ilium.

Caliban is featured as an antagonist in Dan Simmons ' Ilium / Olympos duology.

* Setebos, a key character / bogeyman featured in Dan Simmons ' novels Ilium and Olympos

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The Royal House of Troy was also divided into two branches, that of the Dardanoi, and that of the Trojans ( their city being called Troy, or sometimes Ilion / Ilium ).

* Rubicon virus, a plot element in Ilium / Olympos, a science fiction novel by Dan Simmons

* The Ilium / Olympos ( 2003 / 2005 ) cycle has elements of this genre through staging the Trojan war myth on a far-future terraformed planet Mars.

In January 2004, it was announced that the screenplay he wrote for his novels Ilium and Olympos would be made into a film by Digital Domain and Barnet Bain Films, with Simmons acting as executive producer.

* In the Dan Simmons Ilium and Olympos novels

* Also in Dan Simmons's Ilium and Olympos.

* In Dan Simmons's novels Ilium and Olympos, a major landmark is " Paris Crater ", the site where a man made micro black hole's containment field failed, and the black hole sank toward the centre of the earth before collapsing ( presumably in accordance with the Hawking radiation theory ), leaving a volcanic crater in its wake.

The poem is referred to in Dan Simmons ' science fiction books Ilium and Olympos, in which Caliban and Setebos are villains.

* The character of Ada and her home Ardis Hall in the Ilium cycle are inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's novel Ada or Ardor, which was Nabokov's foray into the science fiction genre and alternate history.

Also mentioned in this and other letters is the Assuwa confederation made of 22 cities and countries which included the city of Wilusa ( Ilios or Ilium ).

While the identification of Wilusa with Ilium ( that is, Troy ) is always controversial, in the 1990s it gained majority acceptance.

In Ilium by Dan Simmons, ( 2003 ), a woman who is addressed as the Wandering Jew plays a central role, though her real name is Savi.

Camp Ilium was the starting point of the Boy Scout Movement for Troy, NY and Pownal, VT which is only away from Troy, NY.

In Dan Simmons's Ilium novel, ' Eloi ' is a nickname for the lazy, uneducated, and uncultured descendants of the human race after the post-humans have left Earth.

The bifurcation of the population is represented by the division of Ilium into " The Homestead ", where everyone who is neither a manager or engineer lives, and the other side of the river, where all the engineers and managers lives.

: Paul Proteus, the novel's protagonist, is the head of industry in Ilium, New York.

Ilium is a melodic power metal band from Newcastle, Australia.

In November 2006, it was announced that Swedish keyboardist Kaspar Dahlqvist, a former member of bands including Dionysus, Stormwind, Treasureland and Circle II Circle, had joined the Ilium line-up, though personal issues have meant that he is unable to continue with the band.

News of the next Ilium album has surfaced & is title ' My Misanthropia '.

Ilus ( Ilos in Greek ) is in Greek mythology the founder of the city called Ilios or Ilion ( Latinized as Ilium ) to which he gave his name.

Ilium is a fictitious town in eastern New York state, used as a setting for many of Kurt Vonnegut's novels.

The name most likely refers to Troy, New York (" Ilium " was the name the Romans gave to ancient Troy ), although Troy is mentioned as a separate city in Player Piano.

The Ilium Works is in roughly the same geographic location as the General Electric plant in Schenectady, where Vonnegut worked as a public relations writer.

Still, the city of Ilium is quite clearly distinct from Schenectady, as characters in Player Piano, Cat's Cradle, and Slaughterhouse-Five refer to Schenectady as a separate place.

Cohoes, longtime residence of Vonnegut's character Kilgore Trout, is in the vicinity of Ilium, and of the real towns that inspired it.

In Vonnegut's Galápagos, Mary Hepburn was a High School teacher in Ilium, and in Cat's Cradle, it is the former home of Dr. Felix Hoenikker — one of the fathers of the atomic bomb — thus, it is the town that John visits to interview Dr. Asa Breed, Hoenikker's former supervisor.

In addition, the Aeneid attempted to legitimize the rule of Julius Caesar ( and by extension, of his adopted son Augustus and his heirs ) by renaming Aeneas ' son, Ascanius ( called Ilus from Ilium, meaning Troy ), Iulus and offering him as an ancestor of the gens Julia, the family of Julius Caesar, and many other great imperial descendants as part of the prophecy given to him in the Underworld.

1296 – 1272 ) makes a treaty with Alaksandu ( possibly Alexander ), king of Wilusa ( Ilium ); and another document has Wilusa swearing by Appaliuna ( Apollo ).

According to other accounts, he was slain by Hector or by Paris in the temple of the Thymbraean Apollo together with Achilles His ashes, along with those of Achilles and Patroclus, were enshrined in a mound on the promontory of Sigeion, where the inhabitants of Ilium offered sacrifice to the dead heroes.

It was said by Cassius Dio that Nero, the emperor at the time, sang the " Sack of Ilium " in stage costume as the city burned.

Various mythological versions of the foundation of Brescia exist: one assigns it to Hercules while another attributes its foundation as Altilia (" the other Ilium ") by a fugitive from the siege of Troy.

Gilchrist and Walmsley both left Ilium at the end of 2003, Gilchrist recorded the demos for the songs but the bass on the album was played by Smith, with Walmsley completing the drum duties on the album before exiting the band.

During this album Tim's vocal style, which was more in tune with pivotal members Smith and Hodges ' vision for the band than his predecessor's, help Ilium garner considerable international praise, whilst the production duties were taken over largely by Smith and Hodges.

David Walmsley again left Ilium as Permian Dusk was being mastered and was replaced by Dungeon's Tim Yatras.

2012 a new song named Greenpeace Music Video dedicated to Greenpeace produced by FanVision & Vida Production in cooperation with Ilium band, and in acting, written and directed by Diego Vida and composed by Ilium band with Lyrics by Jason Hodges and music by Adam Smith and voice by Mike DiMeo will be available for free on the web for promoting the new Rainbow Warrior ship.