Re: SF settings of Homer?

In article <l5v6gjFagrcU1@mid.individual.net>,
 ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) wrote:

I just mentioned in another thread Lafferty's _Space Chantey_ which is an
SF setting of Homer's Odyssey, and that brought to mind the late Brian M.
Stableford's "Dies Irae" series, which was a setting of, hmm, I forget
exactly, but either "The Illiad", "The Odyssey" or maybe both.
 
Are there others?  I mean there are many "Lots of people go to war" or
"Man tries to get home" stories, but are there more directly inspired
by Homer?  Just as a first cut it seems I can think of more inspired
by Xenophon.

_Cross the Stars_ by David Drake is an Odyssey takeoff (in the Hammer's
Slammers universe, Alois Hammer appears in one scene playing Zeus). BTW,
there was a sequel, _The Voyage_, that was an SF take on the Argonauts.

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