Earth is dead. Humanity is hiding.
Invention, progress, change. . . all are forbidden.
Now it's time to change all that.
The science fiction epic of the decade begins here.
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.
Eight hundred 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 era of invention. Which is bound to draw the attention of the Church�and, 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.
About the Author
David Weber is a science fiction phenomenon. His popular Honor Harrington novels are New York Times bestsellers and can't come out fast enough for his devoted readers, and his novels have regularly been Main Selections of the Science Fiction Book Club.
In addition to the Honor Harrington series, he has written many top-selling science fiction novels, including Mutineers' Moon, The Armageddon Inheritance, Heirs of Empire, and Path of the Fury. Weber has also begun a top-selling epic SF adventure series in collaboration with John Ringo, with four novels so far: March Upcountry, March to the Sea, March to the Stars, and We Few. His novels of the adventures of the Bahzell—Oath of Swords, The War God's Own, and Wind Rider's Oath, another New York Times bestseller—have proven that Weber is equally a master of epic fantasy adventure. He lives in South Carolina.
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Product ReviewLove David Weber, but $18 bucks for an ebook... give me a break. I will continue to purchase excellent Baen ebooks for $4-6 each.
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Product ReviewThe sample pages look good and I have all of David's books either as ebooks or hard copies or generally both but I'm damned if I will pay $18 for this. I think that seems to be the general concensus. Tor really don't want to sell this as an ebook as far as I can see. I will wait for an amazon second hand hard copy I think.
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Product ReviewSample chapters drew me right in...and like everyone else I balked at the price. Hi ho, hi ho, it's to the library I go...only second on the wait list, I got lucky!
When (inevitably) I purchase it, I'll do it second-hand, unless of course it gets published by someone else before I find it second-hand - if TOR is this out to lunch they deserve to lose the battle of attrition that is publishing today.
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Product ReviewA great book certainly owing a heritage to other works, but uniquely its own story. David Weber is an excellently writer and story teller. He was fascinating at the book signing, he projects this to be a long series, at least 10 books.
But I hat Tor's pricing of ebooks. $18 was ridiculous, would never have purchased the ebook except for the fact the I do almost all my reading electronically on an ebookwise 1150.Posted on
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Product ReviewThe theme is recycled (genocidal aliens, planet kept primitive by a corrupt church...) read "heirs of empire" and spot the difference. With a fresh theme it would have rated 5 stars, DW is a great writer and quality shows.
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Product ReviewWow! Not an entirely new topic for Weber, but he introduces a whole new universe in this book. The thought of how civilizations can changed based upon re-written histories is always good.
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Product ReviewI Loved the Book It is Wonderful can't wait for the Sequel.
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