"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, movingЕ

EIGHT

The bank was built of granite, a miniature Great RefugeЕ

NINE

УMy lord?Ф said Cadet Seisho. УIТm looking at a transmission,Е

TEN

Martinez, with most of CoronaТs crew, stood on the stationЕ

ELEVEN

Sula touched her writing wand to the fourth and correctЕ

TWELVE

Captain Lord Richard Li was a witness to the momentЕ

THIRTEEN

Most of CoronaТs transit to Zanshaa was rather pleasant. ThereЕ

FOURTEEN

Martinez stood in the well of the Convocation and letЕ

FIFTEEN

Sula fought her way out of unconsciousness with an urgentЕ

SIXTEEN

Five hours after transiting Magaria Wormhole 1, SulaТs pinnace wasЕ

A Note on the Calendar

The Shaa УyearФ is, so far as anyone knows, anЕ


 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, andЧnowЧto which they came to die.