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A Mighty Fortress

A Mighty Fortress

Young Cayleb Ahrmahk has accomplished things few people could even dream of. Not yet even thirty years old, he’s won the most crushing naval victories in human history. He’s smashed a hostile alliance of no less than five princedoms and won the hand of the beautiful young Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm. Cayleb and Sharleyan have created the Charisian Empire, the greatest naval power in the history of Safehold, and they’ve turned Charis into a place of refuge for all who treasure freedom.

Their success may prove short-lived. The Church of God Awaiting, which controls most of Safehold, has decreed their destruction. Mother Church’s entire purpose is to prevent the very things to which Charis is committed. Since the first attempt to crush the heretics failed, the Church has no choice but to adopt some of the hated Charisian innovations for themselves. Soon a mighty fleet will sail against Cayleb, destroying everything in its path.

But there are still matters about which the Church knows nothing, including Cayleb and Sharleyan’s adviser, friend, and guardian— the mystic warrior-monk named Merlin Athrawes. Merlin knows all about battles against impossible odds, because he is in fact the cybernetic avatar of a young woman named Nimue Alban, who died a thousand years before. As Nimue, Merlin saw the entire Terran Federation go down in fire and slaughter at the hands of a foe it could not defeat. He knows that Safehold is the last human planet in existence, and that the stasis the Church was created to enforce will be the human race’s death sentence if it is allowed to stand.

The juggernaut is rumbling down on Charis, but Merlin Athrawes and a handful of extraordinary human beings stand in its path. The Church is about to discover just how potent the power of human freedom truly is.

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Reviews
  • Great action. Too much detail

    Lots of great action and sweeping drama. Punctuated by hundreds of pages of detail, speeches and technological explanation. Could have been—should have been—edited by ¼ with truncated explanation and more concise speeches. Let alone less repetition. Wish he had read the O’Brian Aubrey/Maturin books, which balance better. And have more realistic sea battles. Good read overall, tho

    By ImmortalHedgehog

  • A mighty fortress

    Why is the paper copy 1000 pages and this ebook 250 pages? Same price? For a condensed novel?

    By mikelut

  • Getting tedious

    Tie first book in this series was really good SF. Since then, it's been a medieval slog. Since this is the last in the series, I thought the author might finally wrap up what is to me a little side plot, and get back to the main plot of humanity fighting genocidal aliens. But no... Just more court politics and sea battles. Yawn.

    By JoeStrout

  • Continues to be good.

    This is a great series and with this book it just gets better. The only negative is that it badly needs some human editing. Obviously this passed through some OCR or bad editing software and many words are mangled into fragments 'inc re ment' instead of 'increment'.

    By mogmios

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