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I started The Color of Magic. Pretty good so far.
As soon as I complete the Kindle buy, now reading 'Governor' a new David Weber book, and presumably the start of a new series.
I haven't read his Safehome series. Worth a look at?
The first three books are pretty good and then it gets bogged down with too much happening to too many characters.
As I understood it there were supposed to be 12 books covering a multi-century period with three books each covering a span of years during which there is a massive upheaval in social and technological development all of which is overseen and directed by an immortal robotic avatar of a long dead officer of the United Earth Navy.
The how and the why of how this came to be is too complicated to try and explain.
I think I've got eight of them, though I seem to recall I bogged down halfway through the last of those. I'll have to round them up and see where I am with it. There are ten in the series now. Huge, plodding 600-page books that are pretty hard to get through. However, the forced/compressed development of (mostly military) technology is fascinating.
EDIT: Oops. This thread gave me the incentive to pull out boxes from the garage. Found one labeled 'Weber'. Turns out I do have all 10 of the current 'Safehold' series, which means I'm pretty sure I've read 9 1/2 of them (maybe only 8 1/2, gonna have to check.)
It wasn't supposed to go that way but Weber got enamored with the period and stuck with it way past the point where most readers lost interest.
By the 10th book the timeframe was supposed to be centuries from whence the series began with Nymue's awakening.
This would have been the timeframe whereby the decedents of the Royal Families were leading the fleets against the Gabba.
Sadly that's not happening anytime soon and most people think that Weber is never going to bring this series to a satisfying conclusion before he passes from old age.
How long has it been since the last book was published? Three years or so?
Serge A. Storms is at it again in my home state of Florida...
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