Reddit reviews Dread Empire's Fall : The Praxis

Go get your copy of Game of Thrones and start over :)

If you like science fiction at all, I've been reading Dread Empire's Fall. It's pretty good.

Also, the Foundation Trilogy by Asimov.

Edit: Also, The Hyperion Cantos is excellent and incredibly epic. Just the summary of it gives me chills: "On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope--and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands."

• Dread Empire's Fall
  
  
• Posleen War - the author is ex-Airborne, so the military part is pretty good. I'd stick to just the stuff written by Ringo himself though.
  
  I'll add more as I think of them.

Has anyone ever read either of these that would provide a quick review?

• Sun of Suns (Virga series, Book 1) by Karl Schroeder
  
• Engineering Infinity (Infinity Project series, Book 1) by Jonathan Strahan
  
• Dread Empire's Fall : The Praxis Mass (Dread Empire's Fall series, Book 1) by Walter Jon Williams
  
• Paradox - On the Brink of Eternity by Phillip P. Peterson
  
  Wondering if they might fit the bill.

Yeah, when I read the submission title, I thought of WJW's Praxis series, too.

It's not quite the small-craft dogfights that OP describes in his self-text, but it's some of the best space-battles sci-fi I've read.

http://www.amazon.com/Dread-Empires-Fall-The-Praxis/dp/038082020X

I really enjoyed Walter Jon Williams - Dread Empire's Fall

If you're up for some sci-fi space opera, Walter John Williams Praxis series.

Darker fantasy, Stephen R. Donaldson's Unbeliever series