Orion and the Conqueror
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (803 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812523768 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
John O'Ryan is Orion--more than human, less than a god, cast away on the seas of Time to do battle among the Creators for the future of mankind.Now the eternal warrior finds himself separated from his great love, Anya, and marooned in Macedonia under the reign of Phillip--fighting alongside the young Alexander, and at the mercy of a Queen Olympias who is far more than she seems.
"Orion is put back into the thick of world history" according to Adam Missner. Orion and the Conqueror puts our hero Orion back into the thick of world history as a royal guard to Philip of Macendonia, the father of Alexander the Great. As Philip struggles to conquer/unite Greece, Alexander's mother, who is one of the Creators, struggles to ensure the ascension of Alexander to the throne. This is Orion at his best, fighting with swords and knives as he struggles with his personal loyalties versus the desires of the Creators. As Orion's powers develop, he. Not terribly impressive Well-known classicist Sir Kenneth Dover once described Hans Licht's absurd book on Greek sexuality as a "very bad book." One can't *quite* call Bova's book "very bad"--that honor has to go to David Gemmell's two forays into ancient Macedonia, LION OF MACEDON and THE DARK PRINCE--but this is far from a *good* book. For a man known to complain about bad science in novels, this reviewer finds it terribly ironic to see such bad and/or outdated history in this one. Bova might do we. Orion and Alexander Arthur W Jordin Orion and the Conqueror (1994) is the fourth SF novel in the Orion series, following Orion In The Dying Time. The initial work in this series is Orion.In the previous volume, Orion found Anya in a small temple. As they walked out, she told him that Set was enslaving humans to tend his garden. She also said that their mission was to destroy Set. So they walked quietly out through the garden.Anya warned Orion not to touch the trees and bushes. When he asked why, she told him tha
. Orion fights in the battle at Chaeroneia, where Macedonia defeats Athens and Thebes, and is sent to Persia where he is forced to desert when he has an opportunity to meet with his great love Anya, a Creator fighting other battles in a different time. Orion comes to admire Philip but falls under the control of his wife (and Alexander's mother) Olympias, an embodiment of the Creator Hera. She urges him to obey Olympias to save the Creators' universe. Despite Orion's admiration for the Macedonian king and all his attempts to flee his doom, he is drawn into a final confrontation. Bova's adroit use of detail makes the time setting ring true; his depictions of historic personages as well as his fictional creations are psychologically sound. T