Ilium/Olympos by Dan Simmons
y'know the plot summary for these are just too fucking insane so I'll just quote Amazon
The Trojan War rages at the foot of Olympos Mons on Mars -- observed and influenced from on high by Zeus and his immortal family -- and twenty-first-century professor Thomas Hockenberry is there to play a role in the insidious private wars of vengeful gods and goddesses. On Earth, a small band of the few remaining humans pursues a lost past and devastating truth -- as four sentient machines depart from Jovian space to investigate, perhaps terminate, the potentially catastrophic emissions emanating from a mountaintop miles above the terraformed surface of the Red Planet.
Ah yeah, Greek gods and sci-fi shit. Good read.
Or at least, the first one, Ilium is. The sequel is... oh boy. Olympos starts strong but then it just turns into "Dan Simmons rants about how terrible Muslims are".
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well I guess it really gets off rails first when someone has to have sex with a sleeping woman to wake her from suspended animation, because... I have no fucking clue? (I'm not sure it clarifies as rape, because said woman set up the conditions for her awakening herself)
And then the crazy anti-Islam rants kick in, and it is revealed that those darn Muslims had (after forming a global caliphate, because that's totally realistic): created a virus designed to kill all the Jews, but oops! It kills everyone but Jews, and leads to the extinction of the human race (until it's recreated by the post-humans); then they created a race of robots designed to kill all the Jews, sent them forward in time (using time-travel technology from the French, whom are the victims of quite a few eye-rollingly stupid digs by the author), where they would then proceed to kill all humans, since Jews would be the only people left after the virus took its course; built a bunch of black-hole bombs and launched them in a submarine with the intent of destroying the world, because suicide bombers or something. Ugh. So awful.
After that bit of nonsense, Olympos does a pretty terrible job at wrapping up stuff, leaving numerous threads half-developed and/or unexplained. A very disappointing conclusion to a very good book.
Although... there were quite a few odd things in Ilium, like how Ada suddenly turned into a batshit insane harpy half-way through the book (she's back in form for Olympos, fortunately), there's the repeated references to "effete academics" being all politically correct and trying to push their liberal agenda on everyone, which was just, what.
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and also the whole "MUSLIMS ARE EVIL" thing is set-up in Ilium, at least with regards to the killer robots, which is still dumb, but it's only a page
I was actually re-reading them, I first read them years ago, and I remember my reaction to Olympos was "what in the fuck", but it wasn't until I happened to read the plot to the books again recently when I realized how fucking stupid it got. Sigh.