โ Scribed by David Weber
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The 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 arent going to take their defeat lying down. Charis may control the worlds seas, but it barely has an army worthy of the name. And as King Cayleb knows, far too much of the kingdoms recent good fortune is due to the secret manipulations of the being that calls himself Merlina being that, the world must not find out too soon, is more than human. A being on whose shoulders rests the last chance for humanitys 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.
Starred Review In the second volume, after Off Armageddon Reef (2007), of the saga of the planet Safehold, Weber employs a superb cast of characters and plenty of action to escalate the conflict between the Group of Four and the Church of God Awaiting. Among the outstanding players are King Cayleb of Charis and his adviser, the warrior-monk Merlin, and when readers find out that Merlin is really the avatar of the woman Nimue, who, along with Earth itself, is long dead, they may realize that Weber has combined the Matter of Britain and the Protestant Reformation and outfitted them in sf trappings. By the end of this novel, they may suspect, too, that the Thirty Years War has been added to the mixture. They will be certain that the by-then emperor Caylebs love for his empress is only the first of new difficulties that will assail him in the next volume. They can rest assured of Webers usual mastery of anything having to do with ships, whether sailing or hyperdriven. This fine book gives new luster to Webers reputation and new pleasure to his fans. --Roland Green
"A superb cast of characters and plenty of action... This fine book gives new luster to Weber's reputation." - BOOKLIST, STARRED REVIEW ON BY SCHISM RENT ASUNDER "Along with its predecessor, this second installment of an important SF saga belongs in all libraries. Highly recommended." Library Journal, starred review"
Library : Science Fiction
Universes : Safehold [02]
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