
The Praxis
The Dread Empire's Fall Trilogy, Book 1
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Stefan Rudnicki
“Space opera the way it ought to be.... Bujold and Weber, bend the knee; interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams.” (George R. R. Martin)
The first book in the completed Dread Empire’s Fall trilogy, followed by The Sundering and Conventions of War.
All will must bend to the perfect truth of the Praxis.
For millennia, the Shaa have subjugated the universe, forcing the myriad sentient races to bow to their joyless tyranny. But the Shaa will soon be no more. The Dread Empire is in its rapidly fading twilight, and with its impending fall comes the promise of a new galactic order...and bloody chaos.
A young Terran naval officer marked by his lowly birth, Lt. Gareth Martinez is the first to recognize the insidious plot of the Naxid - the powerful, warlike insectoid society that was enslaved before all others - to replace the masters’ despotic rule with their own. Barely escaping a swarming surprise attack, Martinez and Caroline Sula, a pilot whose beautiful face conceals a deadly secret, are now the last hope for freedom for every being who ever languished in Shaa chains - as the interstellar battle begins against a merciless foe whose only perfect truth is annihilation.
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Good, but somewhat slow paced
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Antimatter missiles are OP.
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the beautiful cadet with the dark and mysterious past. she could be one of two people that we learn about throughout the novel through flashbacks. two identical strangers who met and became entwined in each other's lives. before we know much of anything about them, we know that one ended up enlisting, and that she had to leave a friend's dead body behind to get there.
the crisis that introduces these two characters to each other is a good example of the how the rest of the novel progresses. complicated space maneuvering, realistic personalities and internal monologues, and a deliberately unsentimental resolution.
I don't know if I can say that I "like" either character - him because of his clumsy manipulations and seductions in the present, her because the past that led her here. but every flawed reasoning is laid out clearly in their heads, their poor choices make sense to them at the time, somehow seem like the right thing. I'm certainly rooting for them when it hits the fan, and I'm very eager to move on to the next novel in the series.
had sci-fi with unsentimental character studies and epicly choreographed space battles
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Nothing ever happens
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strong option to fill the expanses void
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Exactly what I wanted it to be. loved this book
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good characters and interesting setting
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Good at first but bad in the end
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An enjoyable if somewhat generic space opera.
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The Roman empire esque theme intrigued me and I'll definitely listen to the other books in the series
Really good sci-fi
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