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Two years ago, Walter Jon Williams re­turned to the setting and subgenre of his ingeniously unconventional Dread Em­pire’s Fall trilogy with the first of a set of sequels, The Accidental War (now branded A Novel of the Praxis). Though perhaps I should call the series “multi-conventional,” since, while the packaging and promotional language correctly signal “space opera” and “military SF,” the books also include strong elements of romance (if not romantic comedy), novel-of-manners, and even crime/intrigue-thriller. The comparisons I settled on for the first three were to Patri...

About Fleet Elements and the Praxis Series Posted on Walter Jon Williams at Worldcon 75 in Helsinki (2017). Photo by Henry Söderlund. WALTER JON WILLIAMS is the winner of two Nebulas and a five-time Hugo nominee. His most recent books are  The Sundering, The Praxis, This Is Not a Game, and  Quillifer. In 2006, Williams founded the Taos Toolbox, a two-week writer’s workshop for fantasy and science fiction writers. He was the guest of honor of the 2017 Worldcon in Helsinki. Williams lives near Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his wife, Kathleen Hedges. File 770 reviewed his latest book,...