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The Praxis - Dread Empire's Fall Series #1

The Praxis - Dread Empire's Fall Series #1

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The Praxis - Dread Empire's Fall Series #1

by Walter Jon Williams

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0743461118
ISBN 13
9780743461115
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Earthlight, UK, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Hardcover. 417 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Earthlight, UK, 2002. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in near fine condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket has light creasing and moderate rubbing. Dust jacket is unclipped. Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: An infinite, sweeping saga of interstellar war - the first SF classic for the 21st century. The empire of the Shaa lasted 10,000 years. Years of terror, infinite violence and oppressive, brutal the Shaa are no more, but the terror and violence are only beginning...The Shaa, rulers of the universe, began to commit ritual suicide when it became clear that their minds - profoundly intelligent but limited - would accept no further information. Near immortality was their one, great mistake. And so began the war between the Naxids, oldest client race of the Shaa, who believed themselves inheritors of the empire, and a frail alliance of other races, including humanity. Gareth Martinez and Caroline Sula are two of the characters through whom we see this mighty, calamitous war and its aftermath. And so, the story of a dread empire's fall begins... *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0743461118. ISBN/EAN: 9780743461115. Inventory No: 16080434.. 9780743461115

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All will must bend to the perfect truth of The PraxisFor 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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Bookseller
Manyhills Books AU (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #
16080434
Title
The Praxis - Dread Empire's Fall Series #1
Author
Walter Jon Williams
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0743461118
ISBN 13
9780743461115
Publisher
Earthlight
Place of Publication
UK
Date Published
2002
Keywords
BZDB5 Science Fiction & Fantasy; The Praxis - Dread Empire's Fall Series #1
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Science Fiction & Fantasy;

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