Hurt my back on the infernal machines (twice!) and had to take it easy gymwise this month. On the other hand, I am 24 again as far as Wii Sports is concerned, and recently added Dance Dance Revolution and Wii Fit to the mix.

	June 30	July 29	Sept 02	Sept 30	Oct 28	Dec 02	Ideal
Weight	69.7	70.7	70.6	71.1	72.6	73.3	77.1
Muscle	56.7	59.2	58.7	58.9	59.4	59.8	62.1
Fat	9.8	8.1	8.6	8.9	9.9	10.2	11.6
BMI	20.6	20.9	20.9	21.0	21.4	21.7	18.5 to 24.8
Body Fat Pct	14	11.5	12.2	12.5	13.6	14	10 to 20
Tipness Score	76	80	80	80	81	81

The Trojan War has been going on for nine years, prolonged and complicated by the meddling gods, who from their seat on the terra-formed Olympos Mons on Mars use Greeks and Trojans to play out their private feuds. In the midst of all this is Thomas Hockenberry, a twenty-first-century literature professor, who has been transported there to confirm if everything plays out according to Homer's epic. But then Aphrodite orders him to kill Athena.

Meanwhile on Earth, the last few hundred thousand humans spend their lives of exactly one hundred years each in blissful ignorance (which includes watching the Trojan War for entertainment). Who needs to know how to read when everything is taken care of by helpful machines? Only Savi, the Wandering Jew, who has been around for more than a millenium, remembers the (not so good) old days. And then there is Odysseus, the Wandering Greek, who quite enjoys hunting dinosaurs.

Mahnmut is a sentient submarine robot, who spends his days exploring Jupiter's moon Europa and discussing Shakespeare's sonnets with his friend Orphus, who has a similar job on Io, but is actually more fond of Proust. Both of them are sent to Mars on a mission to investigate the recent, strange and quite possibly dangerous activities on the red planet.

As with most other of Simmons' books, the story is split into two volumes, and after Ilium comes Olympos, which I already placed on the night-stand.