Has Any one here read Far-Seer/ the Quintaglios trilogy?

[KerikBalm]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-Seer

Its basically the story of dinosaurs on Laythe...

Some "preserver" entity transports dinosaurs to a water world tidally locked to a gas giant before the extinction event on Earth. They develop into an intelligent civilization

The water world is tidally locked, and the main landmass does not face the gas giant.

Eventually, ships sailing beyond the horizon spot the gas giant, which they deem the face of god, and a new religion starts.

Thats the backstory

Book 1 is essentially a rehashing of Gallileo and the persecution by the church.... that's not the face of god, its a planet that their world orbits - with the introduction of telescopes, they can see other worlds with moons.

In a sort of break from real good physics... planetary rings form when a moon gets too close and breaks up, and the same fate awaits their world.

Book 2 is a rehash of darwins voyages, with some other stuff in there

Book 3 involves an ancient alien space elevator (extending to the lagrange point... since the world is tidally locked, after all), population problems, and first contact with a race of dinosaurs on another continent (columbus sort of?)