Storm from Orion, The

Full title: The Storm from Orion
Author: Guye Nane
Published: 2010 DAW Books 
Format: Deadtree and E-book
Content: Pot boiler pulp grade C science fiction novel. The hero doesn't know he is one but wades through chapters full of info dump and cardboard villains to save the yummy girl and the day. 
The Storm from Orion is a factual thesis on the Great Orion Empire or rather the remnant of it called the "Vegan Tyranny", wrapped in a bad space opera plot. While the characters and plot are pure fancy and deliberately hack-eyed and wooden all the background information is fact. There is a lot of "info dump" in the book. It is written by the El Alurian woman, Guinan that was found shipwrecked.
The information discusses the Orion habits, methods and motivations, their slave culture, and suspected strength. This along with the first hand information of the body, the Palace Melodrama, the Gladiatorial Magazine,and a growing body of living information are the database on the Orion race.
==Reaction==
To the general public, a grade C Science Fiction paperback. The author info dumps all over, and the story is something a third rate hack would turn up their nose at. The critics think the book stinks but it is popular with those that can read between the lines. Mission accomplished.
Since the failed Orion raid on Earth and the subsequent trade related contacts The Storm from Orion is less important as a source material as living information is now coming in.
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