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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
This Safehold series looks interesting. Given that every book after the first takes its name from a familiar hymn, is it written as Christian allegory after the manner of C.S. Lewis?
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No, the running plot is something the post-Luther wars of religion between a world-dominating theocracy whose central doctrine is to keep civilization at a pre-industrial level, and a heretical modernizing maritime kingdom (like 1600's England or Holland, aided by an android), with the possibility of genocidal aliens lurking in the background