• Orion

  • Orion Series, Book 1
  • By: Ben Bova
  • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
  • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (706 ratings)

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Orion

By: Ben Bova
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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Publisher's summary

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.

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"Non-stop action and mind-bending concepts combine to make Orion absolutely unforgettable…. Ben Bova brings it to life on a canvas spread over time and space." (Isaac Asimov)

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Murder has been committed.

The narrator killed one of my favorite books . Slow , tedious reading with no inflection of voice at all . Poor Orion , doomed to cross worlds with this guy reading his story .

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Not too bad

While the story flowed reasonably, and was somewhat interesting, the overall plot was simplistic and a little too flawed for my tastes. I did listen to the end and appreciate what Bova was trying to say, and I do like the message and philosophical questions. Probably aimed at a younger audience.

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Disappointing... couldn't finish

Unfortunately this was one of those books that I couldn't finish, probably because it falls in the fantasy rather than scifi category that I was expecting. It seemed to be a series of episodes of a demi-god trying to defeat a god, of course with neither of them ever dying. It just seemed so pointless. But obviously other reviewers liked it, so maybe it's just not to my taste.

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