false 72199 5 Humanity pushed its way to the stars - and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out. Earth and her colonies are now smoldering ruins, and the few survivors have fled to distant, Earth-like Safehold, to try to rebuild. But the Gbaba can detect the emissions of an industrial civilization, so the human rulers of Safehold have taken extraordinary measures: with mind control and hidden high technology, they've built a religion in which every Safeholdian believes, a religion designed to keep Safehold society medieval forever. 800 years pass. In a hidden chamber on Safehold, an android from the far human past awakens. This "rebirth" was set in motion centuries before, by a faction that opposed shackling humanity with a concocted religion. Via automated recordings, "Nimue" - or, rather, the android with the memories of Lieutenant Commander Nimue Alban - is told her fate: she will emerge into Safeholdian society, suitably disguised, and begin the process of provoking the technological progress which the Church of God Awaiting has worked for centuries to prevent. Nothing about this will be easy. To better deal with a medieval society, "Nimue" takes a new gender and a new name, "Merlin." His formidable powers and access to caches of hidden high technology will need to be carefully concealed. And he'll need to find a base of operations, a Safeholdian country that's just a little more freewheeling, a little less orthodox, a little more open to the new. And thus Merlin comes to Charis, a mid-sized kingdom with a talent for naval warfare. He plans to make the acquaintance of King Haarahld and Crown Prince Cayleb, and maybe, just maybe, kick off a new eraof invention. Which is bound to draw the attention of the Churchand, inevitably, lead to war. It's going to be a long, long process. And it's going to be the can't-miss SF epic of the decade. 1069607 1 1 2007 Off Armageddon Reef (Safehold, #1) total:449|5:154|4:147|3:105|2:33|1:10| 449 1749 622 74 5 0 false false Sat Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 28 19:03:13 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 19:28:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 11:07:48 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 11:15:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Wed Jul 01 09:31:11 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 13:41:44 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 09:31:11 -0700 2009
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The premise is mankind is colonizing space, and encounters another alien empire which does not tolerate other lifeforms. A war ensues with mankind gradually being eliminated. Only one small expedition manages to escape, an...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 20:46:09 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 20:52:54 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 19:35:12 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 09:49:38 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jun 05 08:33:12 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 08:36:49 -0700 2009 1 the good guys might win! I read Off Armageddon Reef after reading George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones, and let me just say that while I love Martin's book it can be a bit depressing. Thus, Weber was a nice break from harsh, cruel reality. It's such a perfect...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 27 09:38:06 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 23 06:54:43 -0700 2008
In this story, we have a huge build-up to a climax that lasts about 150 pages; the other 620 p...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 15:15:36 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 16:09:39 -0700 2008 Brightness Reef series, humanity hides away a small colony and hopes that ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat May 03 21:22:46 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 21:55:19 -0700 2008
Background: Humans are being pursued throughouth the galaxy by an alien species, the Gbaba, that is ruthlessly exterminating any species that is technologically advanced. Although human t...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Apr 02 06:26:59 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 14 07:42:52 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 07:00:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 28 00:03:28 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 11 18:33:44 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 10:47:01 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 10:49:49 -0700 2009
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The setting is the distant future on the last surviving colony planet, whose creation was based upon a false religion instituted ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Apr 15 06:03:29 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 06:06:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 27 08:05:21 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 08:15:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 20 09:49:34 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 09:49:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=72199