Dan Simmons - The Master Who Can Take the Weird Ideas

Every fantastic idea that's out there can be a crap idea in someone else's hands. Dan simmons is the great example ever of the master who can take the gofios sounding ideas weird as pitch oke. I've described this before, but the me the novel olympus and ilium. The basic plot of olympus is the space jews are on post apocalyptic earth,. being guarded by dinosaurs and robots that are moslems. But on mars, the gods of olympUS are there. And the main character is an old history proe or a from earth who's been brought back to life to report on the gods ofOlympus  as they do