Fleet Elements

Name: Fleet Elements
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Walter Jon Williams
ISBN: 9780063034273

Author: Walter Jon Williams

Series: Novel of the Praxis

Narrator: Victor Bevine

Unabridged: 12 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 12/08/2020

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Military Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

""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. MartinFollowing The Accidental War, the second book of a brand-new series set in the Praxis—an epic mix of space opera and military science fiction, from a grand master of science fiction, Walter Jon Williams.The Praxis, the empire of now extinct Shaa, has again fallen into civil war, with desperate and outnumbered humans battling several alien species for survival. Leading the human forces are star-crossed lovers Gareth Martinez and Caroline Sula, who must find a way to overcome their own thorny personal history to defeat the aliens and assure humanity’s survival.But even if the human fleet is victorious, the divisions fracturing the empire may be too wide to repair, as battles between politicians, the military, and fanatics who want to kill every alien threaten to further tear the empire apart. While Martinez and Sula believe they have the talent and tactics to defeat an overwhelming enemy, what will prevent their fellow humans from destroying themselves?

About Walter Jon Williams

Walter Jon Williams is a New York Times bestselling author who has been nominated repeatedly for every major sci-fi award, including Hugo and Nebula Awards nominations for his novel City on Fire. He is the author of Hardwired, Aristoi, Implied Spaces, and Quillifer. Williams lives near Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his wife, Kathleen Hedges.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Craig on March 27, 2022

Fleet Elements is another good military space opera novel, with plenty of political intrigue and economic machination and social rivalry between the common and privileged classes, not to mention the relations between different races and civilizations. It also has plenty of tempestuous romantic conte......more

Goodreads review by Liviu on August 09, 2020

It's a middle book with some of the middle book's faults (setting up a finale, advancing the story just enough), while there is an element of artificiality in the main characters interactions as opposed to the first books of the series, but Fleet Elements delivers a lot too - a faster pace than Acci......more

Goodreads review by Florin on February 02, 2023

Superb. Highly recommended.......more

Goodreads review by Jojo on September 26, 2023

I've really gotten into this series although so much of the "science" in the books is hokey. It is extremely unlikely that anyone would have aquariums in space ships, brass fittings, hand and foot servants and meat surviving 10 gravity accelerations. Williams clearly doesn't understand DNA or techno......more

Goodreads review by Ralph on September 19, 2020

Fleet Elements by Walter Jon Williams- Military Space Opera set in William's Praxis series. This would be number five in the series, but really set in a second trilogy, being the second book there, following "The Accidental War". It's filled with exciting space battles, knuckle-biting encounters, an......more