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Conventions of War

The Dread Empire's Fall Trilogy, Book 3

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Conventions of War

By: Walter Jon Williams
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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“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)

At last, the climactic final episode of the Dread Empire’s Fall trilogy - what started with The Praxis and The Sundering comes to a brilliant conclusion in Walter Jon Williams’ epic space adventure.

Working on opposite sides of the galaxy - one in deep space, the other undercover on an occupied planet - and haunted by personal ghosts, Captain Gareth Martinez and Lieutenant Lady Caroline Sula fight to save the Empire from the vicious alien Naxid. In a desperate, audacious bid to stop the Naxid fleet, Martinez makes a move that could win the war…and lose his career. Meanwhile, Sula’s guerilla tactics may not be enough to stop the Naxid - until she tries one deadly final gambit.

©2005, 2015 by Walter Jon Williams (P)2021 by Blackstone Publishing and Skyboat Media, Inc.
Adventure First Contact Military Science Fiction Space Opera Space Fiction Interstellar Haunted War

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I’ve seen a lot of critics but personally I loved it. The characters were great and I’ve learnt to love them or hate them. The long description allowed to have a better understanding of the decisions they made. Great and entertaining

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Outstanding series. the narrator does a fantastic job. I looking forward to listening to the next book.

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Boring, so so boring

I must really love space opera because I sat through all 3 volumes of the drawn out dissertation on political manoeuvre. The credit belongs entirely to the narrator who’s performance is outstanding. The story is dull, tensions are resolved conveniently time and again. It’s books like this that make you wonder if audible are palming off their worst junk in the ‘included’ content.

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