Dread Empire's Fall

The Dread Empire's Fall is a science fiction series by Walter Jon Williams. It began in 2002 when The Praxis was published. Being well-received by many, The Sundering was released the subsequent year, and the series was brought to a conclusion in the summer of 2005 with the publication of The Conventions of War. The novels are of the space opera subgenre. ISBN 0-7434-2897-8 ISBN 0-7434-2898-6 ISBN 0-7432-5677-8 The first beings to envision the tr... More

The Dread Empire's Fall is a science fiction series by Walter Jon Williams. It began in 2002 when The Praxis was published. Being well-received by many, The Sundering was released the subsequent year, and the series was brought to a conclusion in the summer of 2005 with the publication of The Conventions of War. The novels are of the space opera subgenre. ISBN 0-7434-2897-8 ISBN 0-7434-2898-6 ISBN 0-7432-5677-8 The first beings to envision the truths of the Praxis, and first to spread it throughout known space. Very little is known of the Shaa; they chose to isolate themselves from their empire, having gradually lost interest in the civilisation they had built. As a result of achieving a near-immortal state these beings had lived for countless millennia, but such long lifespans resulted in their memories eventually becoming saturated. Even the construction of massive computer networks to extend their memory storage capacity only postponed the inevitable saturation (though it should be...

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