![]() Tensions rise, before Alexandria is destroyed from space by a hidden kinetic bombardment platform. Defying Langhorne, she sets up Alexandria, a refuge for knowledge on Safehold's southernmost continent. ![]() Beyond opposing his madness on moral grounds, Pei Shan-Wei holds that eventually Langhorne's religion will collapse, leaving humanity defenseless as it returns to the stars with no memory of the past. Only by proscribing science as heretical, Langhorne believes, can humanity's safety be assured. Administrator Eric Langhorne, a megalomaniac and neo-Luddite, instead has the colonists' memories erased and replaced with the belief they are the first humans, "Adams" and "Eves," the creations of God upon Safehold with "Archangel Langhorne" anointed as prophet and leader of the Church of God Awaiting. Because the enemy tracked signs of advanced technology to hunt down other emergency colonies, the plan is to enforce a pre-industrial society until the danger passes. In the 24th century, 8 million people flee to distant Safehold after barely escaping from the destruction of civilization by a genocidal alien foe, the Gbaba. ![]() ![]() ![]() It follows a group of survivors who have settled a planet they name Safehold, a place where they had sought to escape from a terrible war, but that becomes the scene of a new struggle to uphold the principles of human civilization. It is the first book in the open-ended Safehold series. Off Armageddon Reef is a science fiction novel by American author David Weber, published by Tor Books. ![]()
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