How Firm a Foundation
How Firm a Foundation by David Weber is a novel published by St. Martin’s Press on July 31, 2012, featuring 848 pages in English. This installment in the Safehold series continues the saga of the Charisian Empire, which has been forged in conflict and faces existential threats. The narrative centers on Emperor Cayleb, Empress Sharleyan, and their trusted advisers as they navigate the perilous landscape of war against the Church of God Awaiting, revealing the deeper stakes involved in their struggle for survival.
Readers will find a complex tale of military strategy and political intrigue as Charis grapples with overwhelming odds. The story explores themes of freedom and resistance, highlighting the brutal realities of warfare and the moral dilemmas faced by its characters. As the empire confronts relentless assaults from its adversaries, including religious terrorists and internal rebellion, the urgency to secure their future intensifies. This edition offers a detailed continuation of the series, immersing readers in a richly constructed world of action and adventure within the realms of science fiction and space opera.
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David Weber’s How Firm a Foundation is the latest novel in the New York Times-bestselling Safehold series begun with Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder, By Heresies Distressed, and A Mighty Fortress.
The Charisian Empire, born in war, has always known it must fight for its very survival. What most of its subjects don’t know even now, however, is how much more it’s fighting for. Emperor Cayleb, Empress Sharleyan, Merlin Athrawes, and their innermost circle of most trusted advisers do know. And because they do, they know the penalty if they lose will be far worse than their own deaths and the destruction of all they know and love.
For five years, Charis has survived all the Church of God Awaiting and the corrupt men who control it have thrown at the island empire. The price has been high and paid in blood. Despite its chain of hard-fought naval victories, Charis is still on the defensive. It can hold its own at sea, but if it is to survive, it must defeat the Church upon its own ground. Yet how does it invade the mainland and take the war to a foe whose population outnumbers its own fifteen to one? How does it prevent that massive opponent from rebuilding its fleets and attacking yet again?
Charis has no answer to those questions, but needs to find one…quickly. The Inquisition’s brutal torture and hideous executions are claiming more and more innocent lives. Its agents are fomenting rebellion against the only mainland realms sympathetic to Charis. Religious terrorists have been dispatched to wreak havoc against the Empire’s subjects. Assassins stalk the Emperor and Empress, their allies and advisers, and an innocent young boy, not yet eleven years old, whose father has already been murdered. And Merlin Athrawes, the cybernetic avatar of a young woman a thousand years dead, has finally learned what sleeps beneath the far-off Temple in the Church of God Awaiting’s city of Zion.
The men and women fighting for human freedom and tolerance have built a foundation for their struggle in the Empire of Charis with their own blood, but will that foundation be firm enough to survive?
Safehold Series
1. Off Armageddon Reef
2. By Schism Rent Asunder
3. By Heresies Distressed
4. A Mighty Fortress
5. How Firm A Foundation
6. Midst Toil and Tribulation
7. Like A Mighty Army
8. Hell’s Foundations Quiver
9. At the Sign of Triumph
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