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POUL ANDERSON IS STILL THE MASTER, and no other writer can see and handle so many dimensions of the human world at once."—Fred Saberhagen. author of the Berserker series.

Poul Anderson is indisputabły one of the most important figures in modern science fiction. He has been writirtg both fantasy and science fiction for morę than thirty years and has won seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. Brain Wave. The Broken Sword. Three Hearts and Three Lions. Tau Zero. A Midsummer Temoest and The High Crusade are rightly regarded as classics in the field. He belongs in the company of Heinlein. Ciarkę. Asimov and Herbert and his latest novei. Orion Shall Rise. is his most ambitious book yet.

Epic in scope and human in detail, Orion Shall Rise is a grand saga of futurę humanity struggling back from near-ruin after a planet-wide nuclear war. The survivors face a life-threatening limitation of resources as they strive to rise once again to great heights of civilization.

Orion Shall Rise has a cast of countries: The Domain. dominated by Skyholm—a giant platform floating thirty miles above Europę. savior during destruction but now maintaining a reactionary and repressively stratified society; Northwest Union, a loose-knit network of Scandinavian-style lodges founded by survivors in the Pacific Northwest of North America; the Maurai Federation. descendants of Maori natives from New Zealand who pursue a policy of devek>ping technology to use the natural energy of wind. sun and sea; the many tribes and countries of the Mong who fled Asia over an ice bridge and settled in the middle of North America. Already wars are being fought again. most recentły between

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