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THE PRAXIS

DREAD EMPIREТS 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.

ЧTHE PRAXIS, Preamble

 Contents

PROLOGUE

The Shaa was the last of its kind. It layЕ

ONE

УOf course, following the Great MasterТs death, I will killЕ

TWO

Operations Command wasnТt in the Terran wing of the Commandery,Е

THREE

A cold weight lay on SulaТs heart. She knew whatЕ

FOUR

There had been a party at the Ngeni Palace theЕ

FIVE

УHeТs old. I hate him.Ф

SIX

Sula raged inwardly against her certainty that everything she saidЕ