Title: Orion Shall Rise

Title: Orion Shall Rise Title Record # 428
Author: Poul Anderson
Date: 1983-03-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Maurai
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Synopsis: Centuries after a devastating nuclear world war, humanity is divided into a few nations, some struggling towards rebuilding industrial civilization, some opposed, but all united in an anti-nuclear stance. When the new leader of Europe is deposed by a Gaean faction, secretly supported by foreign powers, he escapes and becomes involved in a secret plot by the quasi-libertarian industrial civilization of the North American West Coast to break free from domination by the sustainability-oriented Pacific Islanders by using unexploded nuclear weapons to propel a spaceship; only to find even more secret subplots among those involved.

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Other Titles

Translations

Year	Language	Title
1984^ⓘTranslated by Eva Malsch	German	Orion wird sich erheben
1988	Italian	Orion risorgerà
1990^ⓘTranslated by Fencsik Flóra	Hungarian	Majd ha az Orion fölszáll
1992	Portuguese	Orion Renascerá
1999^ⓘTranslated by Horia Nicola Ursu	Romanian	Orion va răsări^?Orion va rahsahri Orion va rasari

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
9	1984 Locus	Best SF Novel
Nomination	1984 Prometheus	Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel
Nomination	1998 Prometheus	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
Nomination	1999 Prometheus	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
Nomination	2000 Prometheus	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
Nomination	2001 Prometheus	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
Nomination	2024 Prometheus	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Orion Shall Rise	1983-00-00	Poul Anderson	Phantasia Press	0-932096-20-4	$45.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	463	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Darrell K. Sweet
Orion Shall Rise	1983-03-00	Poul Anderson	Timescape Books	0-671-46492-2	$16.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	463	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Attila Hejja
Orion Shall Rise	1983-03-00	Poul Anderson	Timescape Books	0-671-46495-7	$7.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	463	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Attila Hejja
Orion Shall Rise	1983-07-00	Poul Anderson	Timescape Books / SFBC	4617	$5.98^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	[5]+ 471	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Attila Hejja
Orion Shall Rise	1984-00-00	Poul Anderson	Sphere Books	0-7221-1287-4	£2.50^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	[9]+ 468	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Ian Craig
Orion wird sich erheben	1984-04-00	Poul Anderson	Goldmann (Edition '84: Die positiven Utopien #5)	3-442-08405-9	DM 14.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark. ISO code: DEM in 1948-1999	ii+ 573	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Klaus Holitzka
Orion Shall Rise	1984-12-00	Poul Anderson	Pocket Books	0-671-82842-8	$3.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	463	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Attila Hejja
Orion Shall Rise	1984-12-00	Poul Anderson	Pocket Books	0-671-82842-8	C$4.95^?C$: Canadian dollar. ISO code: CAD	463	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Attila Hejja
Orion Shall Rise	1988-05-00	Poul Anderson	Sphere	0-7221-1287-4	£3.50^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	468	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Ian Craig
Orion risorgerà	1988-07-00	Poul Anderson	Editrice Nord (Cosmo Serie Oro. Classici della Narrativa di Fantascienza #93)		Lit 15,000^?Lit: Italian lira. ISO code: ITL in 1861-1999	vi+ 560	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Zeliko Pahec
Majd ha az Orion fölszáll	1990-00-00	Poul Anderson	Móra Ferenc Ifjúsági Könyvkiadó^?Mora Ferenc Ifjusagi Konyvkiado ( Galaktika Fantasztikus Könyvek^?Galaktika Fantasztikus Konyvek )	963-11-6592-2	Ft 120^?Ft: Hungarian forint. ISO code: HUF	653	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Veres László
Orion Shall Rise	1991-11-00	Poul Anderson	Baen Books	0-671-72090-2	$4.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	463	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Paul Alexander
Orion Renascerá	1992-01-01	Poul Anderson	Francisco Alves (Novos Mundos da FC #3)	85-265-0259-X		520	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Orion va răsări^?Orion va rahsahri Orion va rasari	1999-00-00	Poul Anderson	Editura RAO (Fahrenheit)	973-97683-6-9		572	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Orion Shall Rise	2011-09-00	Poul Anderson	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-10897-4	£4.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Orion Shall Rise	2015-11-00	Poul Anderson	Open Road Integrated Media	978-1-5040-2434-1	$7.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel

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Reviews

Review by Dan Chow (1983) in Locus, #265 February 1983
Review by John Silbersack [as by John W. Silbersack] (1983) in Heavy Metal, May 1983
Review by C. J. Henderson [as by Chris Henderson] (1983) in Dragon Magazine, June 1983
Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1983) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1983
Review by Algis Budrys (1983) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983
Review by Frank Catalano (1983) in Amazing Science Fiction, September 1983
Review by C. J. Henderson [as by Chris Henderson] (1983) in Whispers, October 1983 , reprinted in:
[as by Chris Henderson] Whispers, October 1983 (1983)
Review by Baird Searles (1983) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, November 1983