Deep and Wide Enough / Conventions of War (Dread Empire’s Fall) By Walter Jon Williams

2005 ’s Conventions of War is the third volume in Walter Jon Williams’ Dread Empire’s Fall series. Conventions concludes the first arc. The interstellar civil war over who shall inherit the Empire now that the last Shaa 1 is dead grinds on. On one side, the hyper-traditionalist Naxids, who feel that being the first to be conquered by the Shaa entitles them to rule. On the other side, the…