"Walter Jon Williams - Dread Empire's Fall - 01 - The Praxis" - читать интересную книгу автора (Williams Walter John)

SEVEN

The catafalque of the last Great Master rolled past, moving…

EIGHT

The bank was built of granite, a miniature Great Refuge…

NINE

“My lord?” said Cadet Seisho. “I’m looking at a transmission,…

TEN

Martinez, with most of Corona’s crew, stood on the station…

ELEVEN

Sula touched her writing wand to the fourth and correct…

TWELVE

Captain Lord Richard Li was a witness to the moment…

THIRTEEN

Most of Corona’s transit to Zanshaa was rather pleasant. There…

FOURTEEN

Martinez stood in the well of the Convocation and let…

FIFTEEN

Sula fought her way out of unconsciousness with an urgent…

SIXTEEN

Five hours after transiting Magaria Wormhole 1, Sula’s pinnace was…

A Note on the Calendar

The Shaa “year” is, so far as anyone knows, an…


 PROLOGUE

The Shaa was the last of its kind. It lay on a couch in the Great Refuge, the huge domed building carved out of the great granite plateau of the High City, the massive edifice from which the Shaa had once set forth to conquer their empire, from which their councils had ruled the destiny of billions, and—now—to which they came to die.