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A review by sherwoodreads
The Praxis by Walter Jon Williams
The first third, setting up the world, sucked me right in.
There were some Jack Vancian touches in culture and character that promised great things to come. The space fights were good (and different in that the first battle is by people who’ve actually never been in war); the ending was telescoped curiously, and there was a long and tedious subplot that he telegraphed right at the start, so the long playout until the unsurprising climax seemed fairly unpleasant and pointless at least for me.
There were some Jack Vancian touches in culture and character that promised great things to come. The space fights were good (and different in that the first battle is by people who’ve actually never been in war); the ending was telescoped curiously, and there was a long and tedious subplot that he telegraphed right at the start, so the long playout until the unsurprising climax seemed fairly unpleasant and pointless at least for me.