Dread Empire's Fall: The PRAXIS (Paperback)

from neurodrew

The end of a rigid empire in internecine war. The last of a might alien species, the Shaa, decides it is time to die. The Shaa counquered Terrans, Naxids, and other races 10,000 years ago, and established a convocation of races with a mighty multispecies fleet to manage their Empire. Everything ...

from ConalO

The Praxis is the 1st novel in the Dread Empire series and details the end of the Shaa reign and the changeover to rule of previous conquered races (Humans included). One of the previous conquered races (the Naxid) attempt to co-opt rule of the remaining races and it is up to our main characters ...

from DWWilkin

This has been on my purchase and to read list for a long time. I remember some early works like the Crown Jewels and Ambassador of Progress by Williams that I enjoyed. So I started in on this. And it did start slow. But I stuck with it. And then it emerged as well done. Perhaps our heroes are too...

from vladmihaisima

Space opera set in the far future when there is only one powerful empire. Multiple races are subjugated by one race, that imposes by force a set of rules (no artificial intelligence, no immortality, etc.) for thousands of years. Starts a bit slow but has enjoyable actions and characters. The whol...

from DirtySnowball

Disappointing because I expected better from Williams. It feels like his effort to produce a better than average military space opera, and he does manage to avoid flat characters and some of the excesses of technobabble and infodump typical of this sub-genre. But The Praxis failed to grab me. May...