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Introducing the Safehold series | |
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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 | |
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by Randomiser » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:55 pm | |
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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. |
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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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by Keith_w » Thu Oct 22, 2015 7:49 pm | |
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Tom Clancy? --
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. |
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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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by Keith_w » Thu Oct 22, 2015 8:42 pm | |
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TY --
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. |
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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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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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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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