Alastair Reynolds
Hardcover | Pages: 410 pages Rating: 4.16 | 14556 Users | 604 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Prefect |
| ISBN: | 0575077166 (ISBN13: 9780575077164) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Prefect Dreyfus Emergency #1, Revelation Space #0.1 |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2008), British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee for Best Novel (2007) |
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Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone. These days, his job is his life. A murderous attack against a Glitter Band habitat is nasty, but it looks to be an open-and-shut case - until Dreyfus starts looking under some stones that some very powerful people would really rather stayed unturned. What he uncovers is far more serious than mere gruesome murder...Describe Containing Books The Prefect (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency #1)
| Title | : | The Prefect (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency #1) |
| Author | : | Alastair Reynolds |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 410 pages |
| Published | : | April 12th 2007 by Gollancz |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Space. Space Opera. Fiction. Mystery. Audiobook. Science Fiction Fantasy |
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OMG *Godzilla Facepalm*This book started out so well, terrific, all through the first half. Great characters and tension, complex and wonderfully conceived, with good pacing.Then.... about half way, BLAM, long-winded dialog, repeated repetition until you go nuts, STUPID STUPID plots twists, bad Hollywood dialogue.What happens to Reynolds? About half way through writing his books, he seems to get BORED with them, and then just stumbles along.Or, perhaps, his publisher demands a higher page count,The Prefect is not the typical Revelation Space novel, but it's still another good and fun novel by Alastair Reynolds.Reread if before the second book in series. I still consider it the weakest because Thalia's story is almost nonexistent.
When I sat down to read The Prefect, I thought I was reading a sci-fi mystery along the lines perhaps of Leviathan Wakes. Then I thought I was perhaps reading The Last Policeman set in space: the dogged detective solving a crime no one cares about or needs solved. Turns out it was a sprawling space opera, and that just isn't what I expected at all. So a certain recalibration was necessary.Though billed as a stand-alone novel, I couldn't help but feel like I was starting with Season Two of a
In addition to being great books, the Revelation Space series and Beyond The Aquila Rift establish one of my favorite settings. The Prefect takes place in The Glitter Band, a ring of ten thousand human habitats orbiting a planet called Yellowstone in the Epsilon Eridani system, 3.2 parsecs from Sol. Tom Dreyfuss, the major protagonist, is a field prefect for an organization called Panoply, which is charged with maintaining and protecting the democratic process in The Glitterband. Each habitat
** Notes from 2019 reread, original review below.3.75 stars? This did not hold up as well on a reread for me.Despite the fact enough time had passed between reads for me to have forgotten more about this book than I remembered, familiarity with the story inevitably leads to my paying more attention to the mechanics of the writing and storytelling.Reynolds' Revelation Space universe is one of my favorite SF settings. The ideas Reynolds uses as wallpaper in his books are more interesting to me
I was wondering how the trilogy would hold up in comparison to a kind-of prequel, and was delighted to see a greater exploration of Aurora in the hey-day of humanity's triumph. Even more, I enjoyed seeing the stakes for what they were and the premonitions of things to come. As a police procedural, it was a much better book, in my humble opinion, than Chasm City, although both had their definite charms. The stakes are always high in these books, as is the body count. I've now got my Reynolds
A multi-faceted space opera detective story. It's detailed and pretty exciting, but a lot of characters are introduced in the first 20 pages or so, and it's a little hard to keep track of who's who when you don't know who are going to be the important ones (clue: they all are).The habitats of the Glitter Band (satellites around planet Yellowstone) are part of a libertarian demarchy (democratic anarchy), which means constant polls of everyone about everything. Paonoply is the organisation in
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