- Space warfare, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, space opera
With humankind reduced to a single colony on the world of Safehold, the human rulers of the planet, in an effort to preserve the remnants of their industrial civilization, build a religion designed to hide the colony by keeping its society medieval.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Classical in form, epic, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
YesNoUnclear
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- David Weber
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 605
- Publisher
- Tor Books, Pan Macmillan, Pan MacMillan
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781427200655
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 16 have read it and 30 want to.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
The gripping hand 199388% alikeBoth classical in form, epic, earnest.
Chainfire 200586% alikeBoth epic, classical in form, grave.
The Currents of Space 195284% alikeBoth classical in form, epic, grave.
Ringworld's Children 200184% alikeBoth epic, classical in form, earnest.
Fire Sea 199183% alikeBoth classical in form, epic, earnest.
Dragon Wing 199083% alikeBoth classical in form, epic, earnest.
The Tyrants Law 201382% alikeBoth classical in form, grave, epic.
Century rain 200482% alikeBoth epic, classical in form, grave.
Mega Man X8 200487% alikeGame · Both classical in form, epic, grave.
Fate/Grand Order 201586% alikeGame · Both epic, classical in form, grave.