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The Product: ISBN: 9780765353979 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780765353979 Author(s): David Weber Format: Mass Market Paperback Year: 2008 Edition: 1st Publisher: Forge Dimensions: 109 x 171 x 34 (w x l x h) Pages: 788

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Description: Humanity pushed its way to the stars - and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out.   Earth 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.   800 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.    Nothing about this will be easy. To better deal with a medieval society, "Nimue" takes a new gender and a new name, "Merlin."  His formidable po