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THE PRAXIS

DREAD EMPIRE’S FALL 01



WALTER JON WILLIAMS


For Kathy Hedges


And with special thanks to Geoffrey Landis for wormhole physics, to Steve Howe for information on the uses of antimatter, and to Tracy Clark for checking my math.


Thanks is due also to Daniel Abraham, Melinda Snodgrass, Sage Walker, Terry England, Yvonne Coats, S.M. Stirling, George R.R. Martin, Sally Gwylan, Emily Mah, Trent Zelazny, John Miller, Terry Boren, and especially to Caitlin Blasdell, without whom, etc.

All that is important is known.

—THE PRAXIS, Preamble

 Contents

PROLOGUE

The Shaa was the last of its kind. It lay…

ONE

“Of course, following the Great Master’s death, I will kill…

TWO

Operations Command wasn’t in the Terran wing of the Commandery,…

THREE

A cold weight lay on Sula’s heart. She knew what…

FOUR

There had been a party at the Ngeni Palace the…

FIVE

“He’s old. I hate him.”

SIX

Sula raged inwardly against her certainty that everything she said…