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“Space opera the way it ought to be [...] Bujold and Weber, bend the knee; interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams.” -- George R.R. Martin

The first book in the completed Dread Empire's Fall trilogy, followed by The Sundering and Conventions of War.

All will must bend to the perfect truth of The Praxis

For millennia, the Shaa have subjugated the universe, forcing the myriad sentient races to bow to their joyless tyranny. But the Shaa will soon be no more. The...

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The galactic empire is at peace following the revolt that was the subject of the first Dread Empire’s Fall trilogy. Peace—and already settling back into familiar patterns. With the conclusion of hostilities, there’s nothing the empire’s elites crave more than a return to the old ways of doing things, never mind that the old ways […]

The Praxis: Dread Empire's Fall