{"product_id":"off-armageddon-reef-9780765315007","title":"Off Armageddon Reef","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOff Armageddon Reef\u003c\/strong\u003e by Weber, David. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780765315007.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHumanity pushed its way to the stars - and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out.\n\nEarth 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, theyve built a religion in which every Safeholdian believes, a religion designed to keep Safehold society medieval forever.\n\n800 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.\n\nNothing 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 hell need to find a base of operations, a Safeholdian country thats just a little more freewheeling, a little less orthodox, a little more open to the new.\n\nAnd 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.\n\nIts going to be a long, long process. And its going to be the cant-miss SF epic of the decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Tor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118583013429,"sku":"ByrdShop_0765315009","price":28.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780765315007_a2ee8b96-0651-4a92-82f7-03717f0d3549.jpg?v=1781343076","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/off-armageddon-reef-9780765315007","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}