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Books : By Schism Rent Asunder
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780765315014
ISBN: 0765315017
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: July 22, 2008
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Studio: Tor Books
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- An Alliance Against the Church
By Schism Rent Asunder (2008) is the second SF novel in the Safehold series, following Off Armageddon Reef. In the previous volume, Charis developed a powerful navy through their own creativity and a few innovative hints from Merlin. When the Group of Four ordered five seafaring nations to attack Charis, the Charisan navy decisively defeated the attacking fleets. But King Haarahld of Charis was killed in that attack and his son Cayleb was enthroned as his successor.
In this novel, ... Read More
Rating:
- A little less conversation, a little more action
I liked this book but pick up the pace. At this rate, it will be another 100 books before we make it back into space. The concept is wide open for almost anything and we are forced to spend our time discussing the painful details of how a flintlock works. I can tune into the Discovery Channel if I want to know the history of firearms.
I'm sure I'll read the next but I hope this doesn't turn into a never ending story like Jordan's Wheel of Time series.
If you want a quick, ... Read More
Rating:
- not science fiction
You can skip this book and wait for the next in the series (or maybe the one after that). There is nothing in this book that makes it science fiction. Read a few pages and then skipped to the end. Suggest you doi the same, but do it in a bookstore and save a few $$
Rating: - I hate meetings
One of the things drummed into me at my writer's group meeting is "show" don't "tell." And that is my issue with this novel. But with a twist, because, for the most part, the author isn't "telling" what's happening directly. Rather, he is having his characters, in one meeting after another, "tell" what's happening in the novel, i.e. in other parts of the world. Page after page of this group or that group debating some event that happened weeks before and what they plan to do about it. And when ... Read More
Rating:
- By Schism Drifting Off to Sleep
While I really enjoyed Off Armageddon Reef, this book was extremely slow with endless expositions of political minutiae that did not advance the story or plot. At the end of the book, the story has advanced little, and I was left dissatisfied. Some of Weber's Harrington books are like this as well, so I hope this is not the way the series will play out.
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By Schism Rent Asunder
by: David Weber
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780765315014
ISBN: 0765315017
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: July 22, 2008
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Studio: Tor Books
Related Items:
- Valiant (The Lost Fleet, Book 4)
- The Last Centurion
- Off Armageddon Reef
- The Scourge of God: A Novel of the Change (Change Series)
- Claws that Catch (Looking Glass, Book 4)
- see more
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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 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.
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.
Average Rating: 
Rating:
- An Alliance Against the ChurchBy Schism Rent Asunder (2008) is the second SF novel in the Safehold series, following Off Armageddon Reef. In the previous volume, Charis developed a powerful navy through their own creativity and a few innovative hints from Merlin. When the Group of Four ordered five seafaring nations to attack Charis, the Charisan navy decisively defeated the attacking fleets. But King Haarahld of Charis was killed in that attack and his son Cayleb was enthroned as his successor.
In this novel, ... Read More
Rating:
- A little less conversation, a little more actionI liked this book but pick up the pace. At this rate, it will be another 100 books before we make it back into space. The concept is wide open for almost anything and we are forced to spend our time discussing the painful details of how a flintlock works. I can tune into the Discovery Channel if I want to know the history of firearms.
I'm sure I'll read the next but I hope this doesn't turn into a never ending story like Jordan's Wheel of Time series.
If you want a quick, ... Read More
Rating:
- not science fictionYou can skip this book and wait for the next in the series (or maybe the one after that). There is nothing in this book that makes it science fiction. Read a few pages and then skipped to the end. Suggest you doi the same, but do it in a bookstore and save a few $$
Rating:
- I hate meetingsOne of the things drummed into me at my writer's group meeting is "show" don't "tell." And that is my issue with this novel. But with a twist, because, for the most part, the author isn't "telling" what's happening directly. Rather, he is having his characters, in one meeting after another, "tell" what's happening in the novel, i.e. in other parts of the world. Page after page of this group or that group debating some event that happened weeks before and what they plan to do about it. And when ... Read More
Rating:
- By Schism Drifting Off to SleepWhile I really enjoyed Off Armageddon Reef, this book was extremely slow with endless expositions of political minutiae that did not advance the story or plot. At the end of the book, the story has advanced little, and I was left dissatisfied. Some of Weber's Harrington books are like this as well, so I hope this is not the way the series will play out.
Arts & Photography • Biographies & Memoirs • Business & Investing • Children's Books • Comics & Graphic Novels • Computers & Internet • Cooking, Food & Wine • Entertainment • Gay & Lesbian • Health, Mind & Body • History • Home & Garden • Law • Literature & Fiction • Medicine • Mystery & Thrillers • Nonfiction • Outdoors & Nature • Parenting & Families • Professional & Technical • Reference • Religion & Spirituality • Romance • Science • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Teens • Travel •
