Orion
Author: Ben Bova
Year: 1984
Abstract:
Jack O'Ryan doesn't understand quite who he is and what he is doing here. Then he wanders into a diner for lunch and finds
out. Travelling through time, he is too seek Ahriman, the dark one and kill him. Orion is an assassin who is greater than
other men. We follow him through five time periods to the end (or beginning?) of time as we know it.
| Advanced Mind |  |
| Exploration/Quest | |
| Military/Fighting | |
| Horror | |
| Magic | |
| Advanced Technology | |
| Time Travel/Alternate History | |
| Science | |
| Aliens/Beasties | |
| Contemporality | |
Other books in this series: Orion
The Star Conquerors [1959]
Star Watchman [1964]
The Dueling Machine [1969]
As on a Darkling Plain [1972]
Escape Plus [1984]
Vengeance of Orion [1988]
Orion in the Dying Time [1990]
Orion and the Conqueror [1994]
Legendary Heroes [1996]
tyranist's Review
I've never been really big into time travel books. There are simply too many theories and too many ways that someone can get
from point A to point B in time. Ben Bova does one of the few decent jobs. By the end of this book I understood his
understanding of time flow and the continuum well enough to have enjoyed the novel that contained it. This wasn't the greatest
novel I have ever read, but it was pleasant enough. Bova's style is very easy to follow and very straightforward, something
that most time travel authors have problems with. Orion is a good read and worth the time spent on it. If all time
travel novels were written this way, I might pay a little more attention to the subgenre.