false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171061366m/85653.jpg 85653 5 All will must bend to the perfect truth of <i>The Praxis</i> 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. 424565 2002 The Praxis (Dread Empire's Fall, Book 1) total:145|5:25|4:70|3:38|2:10|1:2| 145 541 236 12 2 1 false false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 01:00:46 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 01:18:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun May 10 09:25:54 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 09:31:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Dec 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 17 11:56:47 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 22:27:20 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 08 20:03:30 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 20:04:09 -0700 2009 2 4 0 false false Fri Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 01:09:08 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 01:10:09 -0800 2008
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