Synopses & Reviews
John O'Ryan is not a god...not exactly. He is an eternal warrior destined to combat the Dark Lord through all time for dominion of the Earth. Follow him, servant of a great race, as he battles his enemy down the halls of time, from the caves of our ancestors to the final confrontation under the hammer of nuclear annihilation.
Ben Bova is the author of more than 100 futuristic novels and nonfiction books. President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Bova has been involved in science and high technology since the very beginnings of the space program. He has also served as an award-winning editor and an executive in the aerospace industry.
John O'Ryan is not a god. Not exactly. He is a hunter, a protector of mankindan eternal warrior destined to combat the Dark Lord through all time in a battle for dominion of the Earth. This novel follows him as he battles his enemy down through the halls of time, from the caves of our ancestors to the final confrontation under the hammer of nuclear annihilation.
"Never-stop action and mind-bending concepts combine to make Orion absolutely unforgettable . . . Bova brings it to intense life on a canvas spread over time and space."Isaac Asimov
"Slam-bang SF adventure mingles with speculative theology in this gripping story of an immortal's hatred, a mortal's love, and a death-struggle that spans a million years. Be warned: do not start this book if you anticipate any pressing obligationsa need to sleep, sayduring the next twenty-four hours or so."Spider Robinson
Review
"Never-stop action and mind-bending concepts combine to make
Orion absolutely unforgettable....Ben Bova brings it to intense life on a canvas spread over time and space." --Isaac Asimov
"Slambang SF adventure mingles with speculative theology in this gripping story of an immortal's hatred, a mortal's love, and a death-struggle that spans a million years. Be warned: do not start this book if you anticipate any pressing obligations--a need to sleep, say--during the next twenty-four hours or so." --Spider Robinson
Synopsis
The exciting launch of Bova's popular "Orion" saga is the story of John O'Ryan, a man who awakens one day to discover that he is the leader of a race of beings so far beyond humanity that they are almost gods. And, like a god, he is locked in an endless struggle with an enemy whose powers are so far beyond the merely human that they seem demonic.
Synopsis
John O'Ryan is not a god...not exactly. He is an eternal warrior destined to combat the Dark Lord through all time for dominion of the Earth. Follow him, servant of a great race, as he battles his enemy down the halls of time, from the caves of our ancestors to the final confrontation under the hammer of nuclear annihilation.
About the Author
Born in Philadelphia,
Ben Bova worked as a newspaper reporter, a technical editor for Project Vanguard (the first American satellite program), and a science writer and marketing manager for Avco Everett Research Laboratory, before being appointed editor of
Analog, one of the leading science fiction magazines, in 1971. After leaving
Analog in 1978, he continued his editorial work in science fiction, serving as fiction editor of
Omni for several years and editing a number of anthologies and lines of books, including the "Ben Bova Presents" series for Tor. He has won science fiction's Hugo Award for Best Editor six times.
A published SF author from the late 1950s onward, Bova is one of the field's leading writers of "hard SF," science fiction based on plausible science and engineering. Among his dozens of novels are Millennium, The Kinsman Saga, Colony, Orion, Peacekeepers, Privateers, and the Voyagers series. Much of his recent work, including Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, The Precipice, and The Rock Rats, falls into the continuity he calls "The Grand Tour," a large-scale saga of the near-future exploration and development of our solar system.
A President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science-fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, in 2001 Dr. Bova was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He lives in Naples, Florida, with his wife, the well-known literary agent Barbara Bova.