Hell's Foundations Quiver: David Weber's New York Times-bestselling
Safehold series begun with Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent
Asunder, By Heresies Distressed, A Mighty Fortress and Like a Mighty
Army.
TURNING OF THE TIDE
Centuries ago, the human race fought its first great war against an
alien race-and lost. A tiny population of human beings fled to distant
Safehold. Centuries later, their descendants have forgotten their
history; for them, life has been an eternal Middle Ages, ruled by the
Church of God Awaiting, whose secret purpose is to prevent the
re-emergence of industrial civilization.
But not all of Safehold's founders were on board with this plan. Those
dissidents left behind their own secret legacies. One of those is Merlyn
Athrawes, cybernetic avatar of one of Earth's long-dead defenders, now
reawakened after a thousand years to restart human progress and reclaim
our place in the universe. Merlyn has intervened in the small
Safeholdian realm of Charis, seeding it with ideas and innovations and
helping it to rise to challenge the hegemony of the Church.
It's been a long and bloody fight, but aided by a stream of
inventions--breech-loading rifles, signal rockets, claymore mines, new
approaches to manufacturing and supply-Charis and its few allies seem to
have finally gained the upper hand. Now major realms have begun to
consider switching sides.
To all these ends, Merlyn Athrawes has been everywhere, under multiple
disguises and wielding hidden powers. The secret of who and what he is
has been closely held. But a new player has arrived, one who knows many
secrets-including Merlyn's own.
Safehold Series
- Off Armageddon Reef
- By Schism Rent Asunder
- By Heresies Distressed
- A Mighty Fortress
- How Firm A Foundation
- Midst Toil and Tribulation
- Like A Mighty Army
8. Hell's Foundations Quiver - At the Sign of Triumph
