Dread Empire's Fall

Dread Empire's Fall is a space opera novel series, written since 2002 by the American author Walter Jon Williams.[1][2]

Walter Jon Williams at the Hugo Award Ceremony 2017, Worldcon in Helsinki

Setting and synopsis

The Dread Empire's Fall series is set in a future in which the powerful Shaa species thousands of years ago conquered several other intelligent species, including humanity; imposing on them their inflexible set of laws known as "the Praxis". When the last living Shaa dies, the species they conquered first, the Naxids, attempts to appoint itself rulers of the former Shaa empire. A civil war erupts when the other species resist them, including the protagonists, Terran (human) naval officers Caroline Sula and Gareth Martinez. Since the Shaa empire stopped expanding long ago and its military was largely occupied by training and suppressing the occasional mutiny or revolt, its strategic and tactical doctrines have become matters of rigid, unchanging tradition. To stop the Naxids, the other species must practice innovation and creativity, something the Shaa attempted to stamp out long ago.[2]

Reception

At Tor.com, Jo Walton appreciated the trilogy consisting of the first three novels as very well-made, "funny and clever" conventional examples of their genre: "There’s a war, in which the characters get to do clever things and get promoted. If you like military SF you’ll like it."[2]

Books

The first three novels form a trilogy, while the later books are stand-alone works set after the events of the trilogy.

  • The Dread Empire's Fall trilogy:
  • The Praxis (2002), ISBN 0-7434-2897-8[3][4][5]
  • The Sundering (2003), ISBN 0-7434-2898-6[6]
  • Conventions of War (2005), ISBN 0-7432-5677-8
  • Standalone novellas:
  • Second trilogy:

References

  1. ^ "Locus Online: Walter Jon Williams interview excerpts". Locus Online. Retrieved 2016-06-13.
  2. ^ a b c "Aliens, spaceships, and fun: Walter Jon Williams's Dread Empire's Fall". Tor.com. 2009-05-26. Retrieved 2016-06-13.
  3. ^ "Review - Dread Empire's Fall: The Praxis, by Walter Jon Williams". SF Signal. 2005-06-30. Retrieved 2016-06-13.
  4. ^ "The Praxis: Book One Of The Dread Empire's Fall by Walter Jon Williams". SFcrowsnest. Retrieved 2016-06-13.
  5. ^ "The SF Site Featured Review: The Praxis". SF Site. Retrieved 2016-06-13.
  6. ^ "The SF Site Featured Review: The Sundering". SF Site. Retrieved 2016-06-13.
  7. ^ Bourke, Liz (2018-09-07). "Regency-style SF: The Accidental War by Walter Jon Williams". Tor.com. Retrieved 2019-02-12.
  8. ^ "Eye-Catching". www.walterjonwilliams.net. Retrieved 2022-04-21.

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