Vengeance of Orion
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (989 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812531612 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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The immortal being who has become the champion of humankind must struggle to find the woman he loves in the mystical world of the Great Hunter.
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.
Five Stars Excellent story. "Orion the Hunter vs the Golden One" according to Joe White. Interesting book. The main character, Orion, was created by powerful god-like human beings from the far future. Orion is a tool of these god-like beings, specifically, one that Orion calls the Golden One (aka Apollo). Orion is tired of being a pawn, he wants to forge his own destiny and choose his own life but the Golden One won't stand for it. It's any interesting novel as Orion tries to thwart the Golden One's plans of rewriting history during the Trojan War. Orion doesn't do this out of a sense of right or wrong (even though he is a generally good guy) or to fix the timeline. Orion does this to hurt the Golden One because Orion is . Actually better than the first in the series Adam Missner I thought Vengeance of Orion was actually better than the first in the series (Orion). In Vengeance of Orion, Orion leads the Greeks to victory over Troy, the Israelites to victory over Jericho and prevents a royal conspiracy in ancient Egypt. Bova obviously did a lot of research into the events covered and the storyline is eminently believable. Like the first novel, Vengeance is more like historical fiction than science fiction, in fact there is very little interference from the Creators or others this time.
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. 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. Among his dozens of novels are Millennium, The Kinsman Saga, Colony, Orion, Peacekeepers, Privateers, and the Voyagers series. 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