Safehold series by David Weber (books 1, 2, & 3)Requirements: ePUB, MOBI Reader | 2.7/3.2 MB
Overview: David Mark Weber is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1952.
Many
of his stories have military, particularly naval, themes, and fit into
the military science fiction genre. He frequently places female leading
characters in what have been traditionally male roles.
One of his
most popular and enduring characters is Honor Harrington whose
alliterated name is an homage to C. S. Forester's character Horatio
Hornblower and her last name from a fleet doctor in Patrick O'Brian's
Master and Commander. Her story, together with the "Honorverse" she
inhabits, has been developed through 13 novels and four shared-universe
anthologies, as of spring 2006 (other works are in production). In 2008,
he donated his archive to the department of Rare Books and Special
Collections at Northern Illinois University.
Genre: Fiction, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
1. Off Armageddon ReefHumanity 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 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.
2. By Schism Rent AsunderThe
world has changed. The mercantile kingdom of Charis has prevailed over
the alliance designed to exterminate it. Armed with better sailing
vessels, better guns and better devices of all sorts, Charis faced the
combined navies of the rest of the world at Darcos Sound and Armageddon
Reef, and broke them. Despite the implacable hostility of the Church of
God Awaiting, Charis still stands, still free, still tolerant, still an
island of innovation in a world in which the Church has worked for
centuries to keep humanity locked at a medieval level of existence.
But
the powerful men who run the Church aren't going to take their defeat
lying down. Charis may control the world's seas, but it barely has an
army worthy of the name. And as King Cayleb knows, far too much of the
kingdom's recent good fortune is due to the secret manipulations of the
being that calls himself Merlin—a being that, the world must not find
out too soon, is more than human. A being on whose shoulders rests the
last chance for humanity's freedom.
Now, as Charis and its
archbishop make the rift with Mother Church explicit, the storm gathers.
Schism has come to the world of Safehold. Nothing will ever be the
same.
3. By Heresies Distressed Now the battle for the soul of the planet Safehold has begun.
The
Kingdom of Charis and the Kingdom of Chisholm have joined together,
pledged to stand against the tyranny of a corrupt Church. The youthful
Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm has wed King Cayleb of Charis, forging a
single dynasty, a single empire, dedicated to the defense of human
freedom. Crowned Empress of that empire, Sharleyan has found in Cayleb's
arms the love she never dared hope for in a 'marriage of state.'? In
Cayleb's cause, his defiance of the ruthless Group of Four who govern
mother Church, she has found the task to which she can commit her mind
and her courage. It is a cause for which she was born.
Yet there
are things Sharleyan still does not know. Secrets Cayleb has not been
permitted to share, even with her. Secrets like the true story of
humanity on Safehold. Like the intricate web of lies, deception, and
fabricated 'religion'? which have chained humanity for almost a thousand
years. Like the existence of the genocidal alien Gbaba, waiting to
complete mankind's destruction should humans ever attract their
attention once more. Like the existence of a young woman, Nimue Alban,
nine hundred years dead, whose heart, mind, and memories live on within
the android body of the warrior-monk she knows as Merlin.
And so
Empress Sharleyan faces the the great challenge of her life unaware of
all that task truly entails...or of how the secrets the man who loves
her cannot share may threaten all they have achieved between them...and
her own life.
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