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Williams, Walter Jon - [Dead Empire's Fall 01] - The Praxis




THE PRAXIS
DREAD EMPIRE’S FALL 01




WALTER JON WILLIAMS

For Kathy Hedges



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 Williams, Walter Jon - [Dead Empire's Fall 01] - The Praxis

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