And there's some good stuff here as well. The premise of the story, both the epic background and this chapter of that tale are great. ' Great introduction to a new SF series ' - Spalatus, But the safehold series as a whole really starts engaging with the sequel (By Schism Rent Asunder). In this case, I was interested enough to slowly plod through it. Normally I can't put down one of his books till it's done. ' While the premise is novel and interesting, and while I really like Weber's work, I found this novel to be a bit slow.

Although the two genres have a lot in common so not such a jarring meeting as you might think. It's a long book, but one I didn't want to end. ' It took a few chapters to get into this book but once underway I absolutely loved this book! It's one of those books where you want to know what happens next so much that your eyes speed indecently quickly over the text. I look forward to continue to read the series. If you survive that first bit you will be rewarded by a fun tale. Saying that they are glacially slow is an afront to self respecting glaciers.

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That is a very minor criticism of a book that shines as a whole.' I found myself stopping to figure out the 'real' name that was being used, and this distracted from the story. The writing was smooth, other than a slightly irritating habit of using real names which are spelled in various ways. The sheer scope and complexity of the story immediately reminded me of my initial impression of Dune when I read it for the first time. 'I had never read anything by this author before. 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. 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. 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. In a hidden chamber on Safehold, an android from the far human past awakens. 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. Earth and her colonies are now smoldering ruins, and the few survivors have fled to distant, Earth-like Safehold, to try to rebuild. Humanity pushed its way to the stars-and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out.

Off armageddon reef by david weber