More than a man, less than a God, John O'Ryan is Orion, made by the mysterious Creators who rule outside of time-created to do battle for them, and to die for them, up and down the timeline from the primal past to the unimaginable future. 
But Orion is more than the Creators intended he can fall in love, and has-with Anya, unreachable goddess plighted to Aten the Golden, and Orion can hate the Creators, particularly Aten, who trifles with him as he would a plaything. 
Now the Creators have plunged into civil war with Anya and Aten commanding opposite sides-and Aten has placed Orion out of reach, far up the timeline from his twentieth century origins, trapped amidst the gore of a vicious, multi-sided interstellar war between several factions of humanity and several alien races. 
Orion's fate it appears, is to command a regiment of other humans who have been cloned and trained to act as soldiers for their entire lives: cannon fodder for a war across the light years.
But Orion, once John O'Ryan intends to be more than cannon fodder for the plans of others. In the face of overwhelming odds he must earn his regiments loyalty, save them from certain doom, and fight his way across a hostile galaxy to his beloved's side.
Vivid swashbuckling storytelling for a six-time Hugo winner, Ben Bova's latest Orion novel is a SF adventure in the grand tradition of Starship Troopers and other classic tales of future war and human determination.
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