Orion is man made more than a man, as he is given superhuman abilities to act as a warrior avatar in the conflict between one god, and another supposedly dark god Ahriman.

His life is lived as he is sent to various periods throughout time, and he quickly has to learn to live and adapt here, as well as overcome Ahriman's influence.

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This is the 1st of 5 Orion Novels. Bova's prose is as straight-forward as the march of Genghis Khan's warrior Mongols--who you will come to know intimately here--aside our hunter, Orion. Along with visiting the capital of the Mongol empire and meeting Subotai, Ye Liu Chutsai, and Ogotai (3rd son of Genghis)--the leading forces behind the 13th Century Mongols--Orion will make stops in the 20th Century, the Neolithic Age, and even back further to the shadowy Ice Age of the alleged (outside of mainstream scientific fields) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, with various interludes in eternity. Orion's fate lies with Ormazd and Ahriman, whom you perhaps know as two of Zoroaster's divinities. If you are unfamiliar with Zoroastrianism--the dominant religion of Iran--don't worry, it is likely that you will remain ignorant of the faith, unless you set forth upon your own research. In this novel we have a polytheism of god and goddess who let it be known to Orion that they are merely playing at gods, and that there are higher authorities than them. They are quite Greek--meaning that they have negative human characteristics. The goddess goes by a number of names, and like Orion, a number of human incarnations. She becomes Orion's main love squeeze, though outside of her human form Orion becomes to lowly a creature for her to love in any other way than an agape love. The whole of the novel is centered around Orion's mission to kill the dark and evil Ahriman who is constantly looking to destroy the time-space continuum--aka the universe. I hope the next Orion novel will feel more like Sci Fi than a Jean M. Auel novel, as I am not a Darwinian evolutionist. Much of our science--most notably evolutionary biology--is a nostalgic idealist's fantasy. Huxley and Darwin themselves would by now have gone far past their theorizations; perhaps even as far as Creation. Anyhoo, only a physicist who cared nothing for their career would try to marry spirituality and taught "science" (Dan Brown pun)--so the propaganda of both sides churns on, as the gods play their game out. What are we to do Orion? Serve our purpose is the only thing to do....an automaton with the freewill to die. ( )

Orion is man made more than a man, as he is given superhuman abilities to act as a warrior avatar in the conflict between one god, and another supposedly dark god Ahriman.

His life is lived as he is sent to various periods throughout time, and he quickly has to learn to live and adapt here, as well as overcome Ahriman's influence.

http://superprose.blogspot.com/2007/0... ( )