And David Weber's Off Armageddon Reef is going to be the can't-miss Sci-Fi epic of the decade. Which is bound to draw the attention of the Church.and, inevitably, lead to war. I will say, however, speaking strictly for myself, that I believe it would, indeed, be wise to review your relations with Charis, and your treaty. To conceal his formidable powers he finds a base of operations in Charis, a mid-sized kingdom with a talent for naval warfare, where he plans to make the acquaintance of King Haarahld and Crown Prince Cayleb, and maybe, just maybe, kick off a new era of invention. Weber masterfully weaves a ferocious amount of. Salvatore David Weber is the master of scope, and Off Armageddon Reef is breathtaking in scope of characters, scope of its universe, and scope of time. This android, Merlin, emerges into Safeholdian society to begin the process of provoking technological progress, which the Church of God Awaiting has worked for centuries to prevent. Off Armageddon Reef has that same kind of introspective power, wrapped in a compelling story and with characters I grew to love. In a hidden chamber on Safehold, an android from the far human past awakens. Now the end had finally come Earth herself lay under siege by an enemy humankind could not defeat. 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.Ĩ00 years pass. OFF ARMAGEDDON REEF By David Weber Context: The Terran Federation Navy fought desperately for over forty years, but the ruthless species known as the Gbaba slaughtered the human race's extra-Solar colonies one by one.

Earth and her colonies are now smoldering ruins, and the few survivors have fled to distant, Earth-like Safehold, to try to rebuild. I admit that I had trouble getting into this book as the first hundred pages are a bit dry - but once you do it gets into some fairly serious and exciting naval. Humanity pushed its way to the stars-and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out.

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