Helen of Troy awakes just before dawn to the sound of air raid sirens.<\/p>\n
Olympos<\/em>, Dan Simmons<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n This is science fiction, from my husband’s bookshelf;\u00a0 I’ve been searching his collection for something new to read.\u00a0 The opening line got me in and I continued reading the rest of the page.\u00a0 That was enough.\u00a0 I’m not a sci-fi kind of girl.\u00a0 But when I told him I’d chosen this book, he looked away, chuckled quietly and said, “Ah yes, that was a good one.”<\/p>\n If I haven’t read any novels by Dan Simmons, I can still make a connection through a great article about translation which he wrote and which I read and which was helpful to me when I was a translation student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Helen of Troy awakes just before dawn to the sound of air raid sirens. Olympos, Dan Simmons ***** This is science fiction, from my husband’s bookshelf;\u00a0 I’ve been searching his collection for something new to read.\u00a0 The opening line got me in and I continued reading the rest of the page.\u00a0 That was enough.\u00a0 I’m … <\/p>\n