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The Sundering: Dread Empire's Fall, by Walter Jon Williams, is the second book in the Praxis series. The story continues where it stopped. Thanks to the main heroes (Martinez and Sula) things are not so hopeless for the loyalists, and everything changed in the war. One of the things that changed is that now they go to full on guerrilla warfare, which is an interesting change of pace from the ship only battles. Overall, very much fun for military space opera fans.

The Praxis , by Walter Jon Williams, is the start of a SF series about an interstellar empire. I've read Impersonations  earlier this year and I sort of regretted it reading before this one. It gives away a very big plot point which I might have suspected, but would have been much more fun to find out. I ended up reading it on Google Play Books, because the author's newsletter warned about a nice discount. While it isn't bad, it feels markedly inferior to Amazon's Kindle app. I had used it before on some EPub books, but most shorter technical volumes. The plot is interesting. An older race, the Shaa, has forced several races, including humans, into their federation, mostly by bombarding them. Mildly crazy side note: As a Brazilian, I am conceptually offended that aliens keep bombing Buenos Aires. After all, São Paulo is much bigger. It is not the country's capital though. The Shaa forbid a lot of things, including AIs, nanotech, immortality, etc, which is ...

Impersonations: A Story of the Praxis is an SF novel by Walter Jon Williams. It covers the story of Captain Caroline Sula - posted to a backward planet - Earth - for daring to win a battle for the empire without permission. From that, she naturally gets into a lot of trouble. The book is kind of short, but I liked the pacing and the action was OK, as was the conclusion. Overall, a pleasant read, just like "This is not a game" and "Deep State", from the same author, which I read before and enjoyed.

This is not a game - by Walter Jon Williams - is a nice little thriller about alternate reality games. It was nice to see how the elements of the game and real life were weaved, and there is a mild touch of AI in the plot (quite frankly I thought it would turn out very differently). Overall, quite enjoyable, and I'm reading the sequel (Deep State) right now.