"Readers who enjoyed Ann Leckie's award-winning Ancillary Justice and its sequels will find similar pleasures here. Williams lays out the slow-burn decline of an empire with supreme confidence. It's a masterful piece of space opera." - B&N Reads "Williams is consummate writer. His worldbuilding continues excellent, his characterization is solid and believable, and his attention to detail while juggling a complex story of intrigue and financial disaster is deeply, impressive. Well-paced, tense, and deeply compelling, The Accidental War is a very entertaining work." - Tor.com "Dread Empire's Fall is space opera the way it ought to be: fast-paced, colorful, inventive, epic in scale, chock full of intrigue, derring-do, balls and battles, secrets and revelations, heroism and heartbreak, deft plot twists and poignant human moments.

Bujold and Weber, bend the knee; interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams." - George R. R. Martin on Conventions of War "A spectacular far-future space opera." - Locus on Conventions of War "Walter Jon Williams is one of my favorite writers in the genre, with great ideas, worldbuilding, characters, and always a captivating story." - Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of The Saga of Seven Suns "Williams's prose is distinguished by a no-nonsense confidence." - New York Times on The Praxis.