{"product_id":"off-armageddon-reef-by-david-weber","title":"Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber","description":"\u003cp\u003eHumanity pushed its way to the stars - and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarth and her colonies are now smoldering ruins, and the few survivors have fled to distant, Earth-like Safehold, to try to rebuild. But the Gbaba can detect the emissions of an industrial civilization, so the human rulers of Safehold have taken extraordinary measures: with mind control and hidden high technology, they've built a religion in which every Safeholdian believes, a religion designed to keep Safehold society medieval forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e800 years pass. In a hidden chamber on Safehold, an android from the far human past awakens. This \"rebirth\" was set in motion centuries before, by a faction that opposed shackling humanity with a concocted religion. Via automated recordings, \"Nimue\" - or, rather, the android with the memories of Lieutenant Commander Nimue Alban - is told her fate: she will emerge into Safeholdian society, suitably disguised, and begin the process of provoking the technological progress which the Church of God Awaiting has worked for centuries to prevent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing about this will be easy. To better deal with a medieval society, \"Nimue\" takes a new gender and a new name, \"Merlin.\" His formidable powers and access to caches of hidden high technology will need to be carefully concealed. And he'll need to find a base of operations, a Safeholdian country that's just a little more freewheeling, a little less orthodox, a little more open to the new.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd thus Merlin comes to Charis, a mid-sized kingdom with a talent for naval warfare. He plans to make the acquaintance of King Haarahld and Crown Prince Cayleb, and maybe, just maybe, kick off a new era of invention. Which is bound to draw the attention of the Church…and, inevitably, lead to war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's going to be a long, long process. And it's going to be the can't-miss SF epic of the decade.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42750393483338,"sku":"5906y","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/5906y_79f375ae-a99a-4492-afc9-bac913e3d543.jpg?v=1765605017","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/off-armageddon-reef-by-david-weber","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}