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| Writer | David Weber |
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| Land | United states |
| Linguistic communication | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Tor Books |
| Published | January 9, 2007 |
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| No. of books | 10 |
Safehold is a science fiction book series by David Weber, currently consisting of 10 titles, the latest released in January 2019. The series is by and large set around the 31st century, on a afar world dubbed "Safehold" where a grouping of humans are in hiding from the Gbaba, an alien enemy responsible for the finish of all other human civilisation.
The humans on Safehold avoid detection past reverting to a pre-electric, pre-industrial technology base of operations. This condition is enforced by a religious conventionalities organization discouraging scientific curiosity and forbidding any higher technological innovation on penalisation of decease. The threat of the Gbaba is barely mentioned in the books then far; the main result is the divergence of the official church from its original aims versus the outlying areas which deny the leadership of the corrupt vicars.
Every book after the commencement has a name taken from a hymn.
Plot [edit]
Serial background [edit]
"World is dead" [edit]
In the 24th century, the Terran Federation—Earth and its colonies—discovers the ruins of a nearby alien civilisation, the victim of an enemy they name the Gbaba. The inevitable confrontation arrives 10 years afterward. The Federation Navy is well prepared for battle, but it is outnumbered and outgunned. A Terran fleet takes several enemy systems but is quickly overwhelmed when the vast Gbaba main force arrives.
1 by one, each colony world is annihilated. A hopeless defence delays the cease for several decades. Last-ditch colonies are started on faraway worlds to save the species, but the Gbaba find them all and wipe them out. After the Gbaba attack the Solar System, a final colony fleet escapes subsequently tricking the Gbaba into believing it had been destroyed. A terraforming team led by Pei Shan-Wei arrives first on a new world ahead of 8 1000000 colonists. They name it Safehold.
War against the fallen [edit]
Because signs of technology led the Gbaba to past emergency colonies, the initial mission on Safehold was to restrict all industrialization. Administrator Eric Langhorne overwrites the memory of every colonist, leaving only the original control crew with their memories intact. Yet Langhorne follows his own divergent program: the colonists awaken to believe they are the first humans, newly created by divine will. They worship Langhorne as the leader of God'southward "Archangels", charged with guiding a permanent pretechnical society.
Shan-Wei tries to defy this plan change but is labeled a traitor and killed, along with virtually of her followers, past the orbital bombardment of their Alexandria settlement. Shan-Wei'south side retaliates, killing Langhorne and most of his allies, sparking the "War Confronting the Fallen" among the survivors. Langhorne's "Church building of God Pending" eventually prevails and sets upwards a militantly technophobic global theocracy, which deifies and worships Langhorne and demonizes Shan-Wei.
Centuries pass earlier Shan-Wei'southward fill-in plan comes into being. During the terraforming process, Shan-Wei hid an android, with the personality and memories of Nimue Alban, a Terran Federation Navy tactical officeholder, deep within a secret mount base of operations. "Nimue's Cave" is stocked with an AI military computer and rooms full of technology. When Nimue awakens, she accepts a mission to destroy the Church and uplift humanity and render to the original program, which includes destroying the Gbaba for skillful.
Off Armageddon Reef [edit]
Nimue vows not to repeat the mistakes of the "Archangels", who used engineering science to perform "divine" acts. As medieval Safehold is likely to taboo a female with great influence, Nimue alters her android body into a male person form, condign Merlin Athrawes.
Merlin selects the island Kingdom of Charis every bit the source for his uplifting "virus", where he volition introduce concepts that force the rest of Safehold to compete. Merlin earns the trust of the ruling Ahrmahk Dynasty and inspires several new "inventions" past Charis' armed services, science, and economical leaders. Charis' powerful industries change the world past adopting tools similar Arabic numerals, the abacus, the cotton fiber gin and spinning jenny, amongst others. In secret, Merlin teaches the Charisians how to supervene upon their state of war galleys with a revolutionary fleet of ships of the line.
The lightning step of innovation, while not directly heretical, causes longstanding Temple suspicions about Charis to eddy over. The Church eventually leagues every naval power on Safehold against Charis. Merlin's space-age information net allows the new-model Royal Charisian Navy to demolish one one-half of the enemy strength in a surprise attack, but King Haarahld is killed when his diversionary fleet is forced into boxing outnumbered before the new-model fleet can intervene. King Cayleb buries his father and becomes the offset Safeholdian monarch in open up rebellion against the Temple.
By Schism Rent Disconnected [edit]
Maikel Staynair becomes the first schismatic archbishop in Safehold's history and leader of a insubordinate "Church of Charis". Groups of "Temple Loyalists" resist the new gild, some violently. Merlin barely saves Staynair'due south life from assassins. Arsonists fire downwardly the Imperial College, though Merlin rescues its well-nigh important scientist.
Charisian warships savour uncontested command of the seas as Charisian privateers close down unfriendly merchandise. Leaders of the Female parent Church, the Group of Four, retaliate by closing all ports and impounding docked merchant ships. An Inquisition-led massacre ensues in Ferayd, Kingdom of Delferahk. Later on, a Charisian fleet razes Ferayd'due south waterfront to settle the score.
Staynair takes Merlin to the undercover Brethren of Saint Zherneau. Safehold "Adam" Jeremiah Knowles left the memory of humanity's truthful past to the society's about trusted. Aware for some fourth dimension that Merlin is superhuman, King Cayleb is allowed to join this "Inner Circle". Merlin makes instant global communication amid its members possible.
Cayleb marries Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm, creating the Empire of Charis. Prince Nahrmahn of Emerald capitulates and becomes imperial spymaster. To take the war to the Temple, Charis plans to conquer every realm in its maritime region before invading the mainland. Cayleb assembles his forces and embarks for the first target, Corisande.
Past Heresies Distressed [edit]
In Ferayd, Kingdom of Delferahk, the Imperial Charisian Navy proves that the Inquisition murdered innocents. Charis hangs the priests responsible, an unprecedented activity. Emperor Cayleb gets a warm welcome in Chisholm during a stop to rally forces and supplies. He continues on to Zebediah, a League of Corisande vassal state. At that place, he warily accepts the fealty of its governor, who is known for treachery.
The elite Imperial Marines secure a crushing victory in Corisande, but the talented enemy commander retreats to a strategic redoubt. With Merlin's guidance, Charis finds a way effectually it and forces his give up. Victory seems inevitable, but the Inquisition assassinates Prince Hektor to smear Cayleb and stir disorder. The Charisians prepare for a hard occupation. Hektor'south children are smuggled to Delferahk.
Merlin fails to find a plot on Empress Sharleyan dorsum in Charis. His spy drones alert him to the assassins at the terminal moment, forcing him to unleash his total abilities to fly back and wipe them out. Nonetheless, he near fails. This forces him to reveal his "impossible" presence to Sharleyan. She and her solitary surviving baby-sit have the truth and join the Inner Circle.
In Zion, Grand Inquisitor Zaspahr Clyntahn learns that the Temple'south military buildup of galleys is obsolete, a plush setback. He performs a pocket-sized public penance to control the outrage over the Ferayd massacre. Clyntahn is visited past a fearful member of a secret faction of his political opponents, The Circle, who tells the Inquisition everything. Clyntahn near has enough support to declare Holy State of war, and then he bides his time.
A Mighty Fortress [edit]
Occupied Corisande is restless afterwards Hektor's murder. Several Temple Loyalists work to win the hearts of the people. Cayleb vows to avoid repression, simply Merlin monitors the resistance. Sharleyan is meaning and Merlin takes her to "Nimue's Cave" for prenatal intendance. Merlin reveals he injected her and several others with nanotech; they volition never again be sick and volition apace recover from non-fatal injury.
In Corisande, a popular reformist priest denounces the Temple's corruption, helping to quell the resistance. Frustrated Temple Loyalists abduct and torture him to death. Merlin is unable to salvage him, simply arranges for the killers to be caught and executed. Archbishop Staynair makes a visit to Corisande and does much to encourage ecumenism across the Empire of Charis. Merlin breaks upward a vast conspiracy that includes Temple Loyalist prelates, Corisandian nobles and the Grand Knuckles of Zebediah. All are attainted for treason.
In Zion, Clyntahn wins support for Holy War and begins a smashing purge of reformists from the Temple. Merlin adopts the guise of "Ahbraim Zhevons" of Silkiah to help Madam Ahnzhelyk Phonda go as many to rubber as possible. Even so, more than 2,000 people are brutally tortured and murdered by the Inquisition. Clyntahn becomes the dominant member of the Group of Four.
The Earl of Thirsk, the Dohlaran admiral who Cayleb defeated in Off Armageddon Reef, rebuilds his armada from what he learned. Thirsk wins the first Temple Loyalist naval victory, forcing Admiral Gwylym Manthyr's armada near Dohlar to surrender. Zion orders its ain rebuilt fleet to bring together with the rebuilt fleet of the Desnairian Empire and set on Charis. A decoy strength of Charisian merchant ships tricks the Desnairian Empire'south fleet into remaining in port. An emergency force of Charisian ships forever ends the Navy of God's threat to Charis in a daring night attack, at great toll. High Admiral Lock Isle, Inner Circle member and beloved cousin to Cayleb, is killed in the battle.
How Firm a Foundation [edit]
Merlin experiments with steam engineering science. His tests bear witness that the orbital weapon Langhorne used against Shan-Wei will not automatically target bones industrialization. Charis continues to accelerate; by this time information technology is innovating largely without Merlin'due south help. Male parent Paityr Wylsynn is inducted into the Inner Circle. He reveals that "Archangel Schueler" trusted his ancient ancestors with a hope that the Archangels will return in 1,000 years (thirty years in the future at this time). Merlin prepares contingency plans.
Empress Sharleyan presides at treason trials in the League of Corisande. She orders the execution of near all defendants but shows mercy when justified. A Temple Loyalist tries to electrocute her in courtroom. He fails only because of loftier-tech wearable provided past Merlin. Sharleyan'south actions bring the empire's territories closer together. K Inquisitor Clyntahn reacts by unleashing Operation Rakurai: Lone operatives commit devastating terror bombings in Charisian lands, killing Prince Nahrmahn, several other important majestic officials, and many innocents.
Earl Thirsk is forced to turn over Admiral Manthyr and his men to the Inquisition. The prisoners are conveyed to Zion, where most die at the easily of Clyntahn's torturers. Back in Charis, Emperor Cayleb retaliates by ordering the summary execution of captured Inquisition agents. In Delferahk, Earl Coris and the children of the late Prince Hektor escape Inquisition custody with Merlin'south assist. Lieutenant Hektor Aplyn-Ahrmahk, Duke of Darcos, and his men meet up with the fugitives after defeating their pursuers.
In Siddarmark, Clyntahn deploys his "Sword of Schueler", a insurrection stoked by Temple Loyalist propaganda. A pogrom against Siddar City's Charisian Quarter kills thousands, but the mob is stopped by Aivah Pahrsahn, aka Madam Ahnzhelyk of Zion. Secretly trained and equipped militia in her service save Lord Protector Greyghor Stohnar. Yet the coup does bang-up harm to the commonwealth's resources. A terrible winter sets in as the Temple's vast Ground forces of God prepares to march, leaving the future in dubiety.
Midst Toil and Tribulation [edit]
Grand Inquisitor Clyntahn is master of the Church, but its foundations are cracking. Civil war rages in Siddarmark amid a terrible wintertime. Treasurer General Rhobair Duchairn must deal with the Temple'due south greatly depreciated tithes; rich Charis and Siddarmark no longer contribute any revenue, and Charis has brought economic havoc to all Temple Loyalist realms. The Army of God marches on Siddarmark, equally Charis races to become its ain military machine to the field with Emperor Cayleb in command.
The surviving royal family of Corisande travel habitation with Archbishop Staynair, where Princess Irys falls in love with her rescuer Duke Hektor Aplyn-Ahrmahk. Over time, Charis integrates Corisande every bit a constituent kingdom of its empire with Irys' brother Daivyn on the throne. Irys is betrothed to Hektor to seal the deal. Empress Sharleyan's leadership further unifies the people of Charis, Chisholm, Corisande, Emerald and recently absorbed Tarot under a rapidly industrializing imperial country.
Merlin "resurrects" Charis' spymaster, Prince Nahrmahn, inside a virtual reality simulation populated past the tactical AI "Owl." Though just every bit Merlin is uncertain that he is truly a reborn version of Nimue Alban, Nahrmahn has doubts about his being. A meeting with his "widow" Ohlyvya enabled by Merlin makes him resolve to go on while she lives. As time passes differently in the virtual earth, Nahrmahn is able to spend a great deal of information technology with Owl, helping the AI get self-enlightened. The two prove to be a mental asset to an increasingly weary Merlin.
Siddarmark survives the winter and Cayleb's forces make it. The Temple'due south brutal tactics start to backlash as its forces lose pop support in the Republic. Avant-garde Charisian weapons and tactics turn the tide on the battlefield, only the Temple and its allies still greatly outnumber the Reformists. Charis deploys new steam-powered ironclads, shutting down the Ground forces of God'southward supply lines, but non in time to relieve a forward-deployed force of Imperial Marines who are surrounded and killed to a man. Yet, amid the tragedy, success in the war becomes possible.
Like a Mighty Army [edit]
The Temple struggles to conform to Charisian economic warfare, only the Grouping of 4 decide to utilize their overwhelming numbers to attempt to win out earlier a sustained offense becomes impossible to support. Duke Eastshare of the Imperial Charisian Army weathers the Ground forces of God's assault. The situation appears more dire for the Earl of Hanth in the south, merely incompetent Temple Loyalist commanders play into his hands. With the help of Merlin and his various guises providing key data, the Reformists gain the upper hand throughout Siddarmark.
Princess Irys' wedding in Corisande is interrupted by a suicide bomber in Clyntahn's service. Her new husband Knuckles Hektor is severely wounded; Merlin barely manages to salvage his life. This need to exist in several places at once places an incredible strain on the seijin, only Nahrmahn and Owl figure out how to construct a new cybernetic avatar similar Merlin. "Nimue Chwaerieau" awakens every bit Merlin did some years before. She becomes the kickoff female person member of the Majestic Guard, eroding gender barriers throughout the empire by instance.
The desperate Group of Four authorize a broad adoption of Charisian innovations and tactics, unwittingly playing into Merlin'due south ultimate goal to uplift all of Safehold. The price is high; every Charisian victory prompts roughshod pogroms against nearby settlements to weed out "heretics". Enraged, Merlin slips behind enemy lines under the guise of "Dialydd Mab" (Welsh for "Avenging Son"), slaying many agents of the Inquisition.
Charisian success causes divisions among the Temple Loyalist forces, allowing the Reformists to begin routing them in detail; i boxing with the ground forces of the Empire of Desnair causes 90 percent enemy casualties. The Empire of Harchong'southward massive serf army becomes modernized and remains a grave threat, but Charisian commanders limited conviction that total victory is within reach.
Hell'south Foundations Quiver [edit]
Merlin learns of a secret monastic guild that maintains the tomb and journal of Cody Cortazar, aka Seijin Kohdy. A Safeholdian legend formerly thought fictional, Kohdy fought for the Temple during the War Against the Fallen. His residual memories of life during the terminal days of the Terran Federation caused him to seek answers from the "Archangels", who tried to erase him from history. Female parent Superior Nynian Rychtair—the savior of the Siddarmarkian country at the start of the "Jihad"—is admitted to the Inner Circle.
Charis deploys engineering equivalent to the late 19th/early on 20th century. Bolt-activeness rifles, grenades, land mines, massed artillery and corps-level tactics prove decisive against Temple forces. Charis shatters the starving, demoralized Army of God. Eventually, the Reformists liberate nearly all of Siddarmark. The Temple kills or deports Siddarmarkian "heretics" to date held in concentration camps. Efforts past Merlin (as "Dialydd Mab") rescue many, only the offensive cannot continue while they are cared for.
Although the Kingdom of Dohlar is beingness defeated on land, its navy under Admiral Thirsk remains a threat. The loss in battle of HMS Dreadnought, a state-of-the-art oceangoing ironclad, and delays in the introduction of the Rex Haarahld form of battleship ready back the plan to regain total command of the seas. Charisian prisoners from Dreadnought are rescued from Gwylym Manthyr'due south fate by a daring dark raid, simply Dreadnought is captured almost intact for study by the enemy.
Yard Inquisitor Clyntahn blames Thirsk for losing the prisoners and plans to have Thirsk killed as soon as his naval leadership is no longer needed. The Inquisition uncovers a programme to smuggle the admiral'southward family to safety. One of Thirsk's aides diverts suspicion, posing as a Charisian amanuensis. He slays several Inquisitors and nonlethally shoots Thirsk before killing himself to protect the truth. Even so, Clyntahn compels Thirsk's family unit to become to Zion. Merlin and Nimue rescue them from a Navy of God send, destroying it and all show of their survival. Later, Merlin visits a mournful and withdrawn Thirsk in clandestine.
At the Sign of Triumph [edit]
Merlin informs Admiral Thirsk of his family'southward survival in Dohlar, and offers him the "liberty" to uphold or undermine the Church building's goals. Thirsk remains loyal to Dohlar and continues to atomic number 82 its efforts to resist Reformist forces.
Full general Hanth launches a new offensive against the Royal Dohlaran Army and, using combined-arms strategy enabled by squad-level infantry tactics and massive artillery barrages, proceeds to dig the RDA out of entrenched defenses that had been thought impregnable. At the aforementioned time, Charis' new armored warships, led by the first of the new Male monarch Haarahld class of battleships, establish total Charisian control of the sea and render all enemy shore fortifications obsolete. After several months of protracted fighting on land and sea, Admiral Thirsk makes his move, seizing control of his government with the help of reform-minded and state of war-weary cohorts in the Dohlaran military and clergy, leading to the kingdom's withdrawal from the Jihad.
In the north, the Harchongese Mighty Host of God and the Archangels is outmaneuvered by the utilise of Charisian not-rigid Zeppelin-style ascertainment balloons for directing troop movements and indirect fire. Reformist armies converge and seize the initiative against the concluding organized army loyal to the Temple. Simultaneously, frustration against the Inquisition for years of shambles and abuse boils over every bit rebel mobs rally behind Vicar Rhobair Duchairn. Clyntahn flees the Temple but is intercepted by Merlin and Nimue. Later, Clyntahn is presented incontrovertible proof of the lies that the Church is founded on, and goes to the gallows a broken homo.
With the Jihad over at terminal, Duchairn becomes the new Grand Vicar and promulgates reform, just the Temple fractures into several national branches akin to the Church building of Charis. The Inner Circle decides that in the short term, peace is more of import than overthrowing Mother Church and its doctrine. Therefore, it is decided, Safehold cannot yet face up the truth about its by. Charis cements permanent ties with Siddarmark and begins a rapprochement with Dohlar. Merlin and Nimue, aware how their mission is far from over as the immortal guides of humanity, await toward a brighter future.
Through Peppery Trials [edit]
The tenth book in the Safehold series, was released on January 8, 2019.[1]
Subsequently winning the war against the Church of God Pending, Merlin and the others are preparing for the prophetic 1,000-year-return of the and so-chosen archangels. This possible event constitutes a danger to the evolution of the human race on Safehold since it was the and then-called archangels that ready the Church building of God Awaiting specifically to keep the man race wallowing in Middle Ages engineering science. Although the Charisians have not violated the proscriptions against technology, they have come up fairly close with such things as steam engines and dirigibles. Meanwhile, Harchong has been coming autonomously, and a possible war is building there. Decades laissez passer. Some of the bully leaders of the past war are at present gone or too old to go out of bed. Children introduced earlier in the series are now onetime plenty to marry, and thus they are possible major characters for the next book in the series. And finally, a sign from the 'archangels' seems to announced.
Reception [edit]
Six of the books in the series debuted on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Seller Listing. Off Armageddon Reef was a cumulative bestseller,[ii] inbound the New York Times Best Seller listing at number 33.[three] It was listed by Booklist equally one of the top ten SF audiobooks of 2008[iv] and was nominated in 2009 for the Arthur C. Clarke Accolade for all-time scientific discipline fiction novel published in the U.k..[5] The Guardian institute Off Armageddon Reef to have a predictable ending and called the graphic symbol development "perfunctory", but applauded Weber's pacing and vision.[6]
By Heresies Distressed debuted at number 11 on the July 17, 2009 New York Times best selling hardcover fiction list,[7] number 25 on the July 24, 2009 list,[eight] and number thirty on the July 30, 2009 listing.[9]
A Mighty Fortress debuted at #nine on the New York Times hardcover fiction best seller list,[10] dropped to #24 in the 2nd week,[eleven] then to #29 in week three before dropping off the list,[12] for a total of three weeks on the listing.
Like a Mighty Army debuted at #5 on the New York Times hardcover fiction best seller list.[13]
Hell's Foundations Quiver debuted at #16 on the New York Times hardcover fiction best seller list.[xiv]
At the Sign of Triumph debuted at #14 on the New York Times hardcover fiction best seller list.[fifteen]
Through Fiery Trials debuted at #12 on the New York Times hardcover fiction all-time seller listing.[16]
References [edit]
- ^ "Through Peppery Trials (Safehold): David Weber". xv June 2018.
- ^ "Cumulative SFFH Books on 2007 General Bestseller Lists". Locus. 12 February 2008.
- ^ "Best Sellers: Hardcover Fiction". The New York Times. Feb 11, 2007. Retrieved July half dozen, 2009.
- ^ Moyer, Jessica (May xv, 2008). "Top x SF/Fantasy Audiobooks: 2008". Booklist.
- ^ "ACCA 2009 - the long list". The London international festival of science fiction and fantastic picture show. April 2009.
- ^ Brown, Eric (2 February 2008). "Virtual heist". The Guardian.
- ^ "Hardcover Fiction". The New York Times. 2009-07-17. Retrieved 2009-08-05 .
- ^ "Hardcover Fiction". The New York Times. 2009-07-24. Retrieved 2009-08-05 .
- ^ "Hardcover Fiction". The New York Times. 2009-07-xxx. Retrieved 2009-08-05 .
- ^ "Best Sellers: Hardcover Fiction". The New York Times. Apr 23, 2010. Retrieved Apr 26, 2010.
- ^ "Best Sellers: Hardcover Fiction". The New York Times. April 30, 2010. Retrieved June 8, 2010.
- ^ "Best Sellers: Hardcover Fiction". The New York Times. May 7, 2010. Retrieved June 8, 2010.
- ^ "All-time Sellers: Hardcover Fiction". The New York Times. March 9, 2014. Retrieved April 15, 2014.
- ^ "Best Sellers: Hardcover Fiction". The New York Times. November i, 2015. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
- ^ "Best Sellers: Hardcover Fiction". The New York Times. November 27, 2016. Retrieved April 5, 2017.
- ^ "All-time Sellers: Hardcover Fiction". The New York Times. January 27, 2019. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
External links [edit]
- Official Safehold serial page (on David Weber'south site)
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