Off Armageddon Reef
Earth is long dead, a defunct pile of smoldering ruins. The few remaining survivors have fled to earth-like Safehold, where they have cobbled together a precarious existence endangered at every moment by exposure to savage aliens. To preserve their endangered culture, Safehold leaders have built...
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Earth is long dead, a defunct pile of smoldering ruins. The few remaining survivors have fled to earth-like Safehold, where they have cobbled together a precarious existence endangered at every moment by exposure to savage aliens. To preserve their endangered culture, Safehold leaders have built an ironclad religion, reinforced with mind control and secret advanced technology. After centuries of cruelty, this repressive order is finally threatened by the reawakening of an 800-year-old android destined to test the limits of freedom….
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780765353979 (0765353970)
Publish date: January 2nd 2008
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Pages no: 800
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Epic Fantasy,
Space,
War,
Military,
Space Opera,
Action,
Military Science Fiction
Series: Safehold (#1)
Political intrigue, war on a global basis, what more could you want? This was a really fun read and I can recommend this to anyone who enjoys sci-fi, fantasy or historical fiction. The first book is great and the rest in the series follow along. I am ready though to see how he will wrap up all the s...
This series is awesome, it pits the virtues of grace and innovation against the dogmatic suppression of freedom. The strength of character possessed by the book's characters is manifest in their struggle against the evil machinations of the corrupt leadership of a world spanning perverted "church".O...
In Off Armageddon Reef we have an advance human society pushed to the brink of extinction and forced to live without the benefits of modern technology in a last ditch effort to survive. Not only do they draw the line at pre-industrial revolution levels of technology but this idea of technological st...
This is a style of book I really love: science fiction in a pre-industrial society. Not quite "steampunk", more like fantasy.Weber is an author I often choose just for light and easy reading, but every now and then he comes up with something with great characters and a deep plot, and this is one of ...
It was like two different novels that didn't quite work thrown together. Maybe if I were up for reading the series this aspect would work itself out?In addition to committing some basic sins like mixing metaphors and making common names more "interesting" by replacing all the J's with Z's and I's wi...
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