ckgreed posted:

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I think American Gods by Neil Gaiman might fit the description, if you're into modern fantasy.

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Caoilin posted:

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ckgreed posted:

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I think American Gods by Neil Gaiman might fit the description, if you're into modern fantasy.

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because american gods is totally about the norse and greek gods.

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website posted:

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Q: Many of your readers are familiar with Greek and Roman gods but ignorant of Norse gods. Was it your hope that American Gods might encourage a renewed interest in Norse mythology?
A: Not really. It was more that we are so familiar with the Greco-Roman gods, and it was harder to come up with ways that they could have come to the United States (although as I finished the book several fringe archaeological discoveries gave me ways I could have done it); and that the Norse myths are so bleak, and always end in Ragnarok . . .

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Ilium/Olympos is a science fiction duology by Dan Simmons. These events are set in motion by beings who have taken on the roles of the Greek gods. Like Simmons' earlier series, the Hyperion Cantos, it is a form of "literary science fiction" which relies heavily on intertextuality, in this case with Homer and Shakespeare, as well as periodic references to Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (or In Search of Lost Time) and Vladimir Nabokov's novel Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle.

As with most of his science fiction and in particular with one of his previous novels, the Hugo award-winning Hyperion, Ilium demonstrates that Simmons writes in the tradition of soft science fiction like Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. Le Guin. Ilium is based on a literary approach similar to most of Bradbury's work, but describes larger segments of society and broad historical events. As in Le Guin's Hainish series, Simmons places the action of Ilium in a vast and complex universe made of relatively plausible technological and scientific elements. Yet Ilium is different from any of the works of Bradbury and Le Guin in its exploration of the very far future of humanity, and in the extra human or post-humans themes associated with this. It is among several recent works that look specifically at the notion of a technological singularity where technological change starts to occur beyond the ability of humanity to presently predict or comprehend. The first book in the series, Ilium, received the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction novel in 2004.[1]