Orion
by Ben Bova
Orion the Hunter is tasked by mighty Ormazd to continually battle evil Ahriman, the Dark
One. Bova’s first tale chronicles a time thousands of years in the past when Orion is
part of a nomadic hunting clan that includes the beautiful Ana whom he has bonded with
and loved throughout time.
But even from this distance I could see she was the gray-eyed woman I had known in other
eras; the woman I had loved, thousands of years in the future of this world. The woman
who had loved me.
Orion by Ben Bova, in Weird Heroes, Volume Eight,
edited by Byron Preiss, Jove Books (November 1977).