Hell's Foundations Quiver: A Novel in the Safehold Series

David Weber

Oct 2015 · Safehold Book 8 · Sold by Macmillan

About this ebook

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
1. Off Armageddon Reef
2. By Schism Rent Asunder
3. By Heresies Distressed
4. A Mighty Fortress
5. How Firm A Foundation
6. Midst Toil and Tribulation
7. Like A Mighty Army
8. Hell's Foundations Quiver
9. At the Sign of Triumph

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Ratings and reviews

Weber's Safehold series is a sprawling epic set in a future where humankind has largely forgotten its spacefaring past and is now on a single planet, dominated by a violently technophobic Church. The series is reminiscent of an earlier book, Heirs of Empire, in his Dahak series... but enormously more complex. Reading from the first book (Off Armageddon Reef) is strongly recommended. Eventually, once you've read the remaining books, you will get to this one... and find yourself impatient for the next.

The pace has definitely picked back up in this book as the last couple seemed to have not much happening. Still alot of positioning for later but thats necessary for a series this long and it doesnt drag the pace down in this book. Very good read, cant wait for the next one.

As all the safeguard series a very good read now will have to wait for the next edition

About the author

DAVID WEBER is the author of the New York Times-bestselling Honor Harrington series and Safehold series. His many other novels include Mutineers' Moon, The Armageddon Inheritance, Heirs of Empire, Path of the Fury, and Wind Rider's Oath. He lives in South Carolina.