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Introducing the Safehold series

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Introducing the Safehold series
Post by quark   » Wed Oct 21, 2015 5:51 pm

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If you are introducing the safehold series to a friend, how do you succinctly explain it to them? I feel like I always get bogged down in details about different things, or the Terran Federation and trying to give background, and then I don't do the series justice.
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Re: Introducing the Safehold series
Post by Randomiser   » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:55 pm

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quark wrote:If you are introducing the safehold series to a friend, how do you succinctly explain it to them? I feel like I always get bogged down in details about different things, or the Terran Federation and trying to give background, and then I don't do the series justice.


It's a post-apocalyptic military history series where a lone pre-apocalypse survivor struggles to help humanity regain technology and science in the face of an osbcurantist religious dictatorship. So it's about faith and truth and a re-run of the protestant reformation.

Alternatively, tell them it's an amazing kind of alternate history thing with a big twist, which they just gotta read, and lend them OAR. :D
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Re: Introducing the Safehold series
Post by Expert snuggler   » Wed Oct 21, 2015 7:34 pm

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I've said it's like a fusion of elements of Horatio Hornblower, Tom Clancy, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
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Re: Introducing the Safehold series
Post by Keith_w   » Thu Oct 22, 2015 7:49 pm

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Expert snuggler wrote:I've said it's like a fusion of elements of Horatio Hornblower, Tom Clancy, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.


Tom Clancy?
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Re: Introducing the Safehold series
Post by Expert snuggler   » Thu Oct 22, 2015 8:32 pm

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The highly detailed explanations of military hardware.
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Re: Introducing the Safehold series
Post by Keith_w   » Thu Oct 22, 2015 8:42 pm

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Expert snuggler wrote:The highly detailed explanations of military hardware.

TY
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Re: Introducing the Safehold series
Post by Tararoys   » Thu Oct 22, 2015 9:03 pm

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The Protestant reformation...IN SPACE!

I've lured three people in by telling them that so far.
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Re: Introducing the Safehold series
Post by Tonto Silerheels   » Fri Oct 23, 2015 9:10 am

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quark wrote:

If you are introducing the safehold series to a friend, how do you succinctly explain it to them?

I tell people it's about a guy with modern technology back in the age of sail. I just don't tell them which modern technology.

~Tonto
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Re: Introducing the Safehold series
Post by Expert snuggler   » Mon Nov 23, 2015 7:45 pm

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You could tell them to imagine First Lensman told from Bergenholm's point of view.
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