The Prefect (Revelation Space)

A full-length novel set in the Revelation Space universe that’s “sublime entertainment” and “gripping in the extreme.”( Locus ) Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, the teeming hub of a human interstellar empire spanning many worlds. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead, a crime that appalls even a hardened cop like Dreyfus. But then his investigation uncovers something even more potentially dangerous—a covert plot by an enigmatic entity seeking nothing less than total control of the Glitter Band... From Publishers Weekly The seventh novel set in Reynolds's Revelation Space milieu (most recently encountered in his 2007 collection Galactic North ) is a fascinating hybrid of space opera, police procedural and character study. One of the 10,000 colony habitats of the utopian Glitter Band has been destroyed, and title character Tom Dreyfus, a cop who patrols the Glitter Band beat, is assigned to learn whodunit and why. Meanwhile, his protégé, Thalia Ng, shepherds a supposedly minor series of software upgrades on several other habitats, while Dreyfus's superiors oust their leader, ostensibly for her own good. Reynolds unfolds revelations layer by onionskin layer, supplying enough detail to imply a novel's worth of unwritten backstory without ever obscuring the stakes and personalities. The high-quality characterization more than compensates for the slightly too shadowy villains. This is solid British SF adventure, evoking echoes of le Carré and Sayers with a liberal dash of Doctor Who . (June) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist Reynolds returns to Revelation Space to follow the trials and tribulations of Tom Dreyfus, prefect of Panoply, tasked with maintaining democracy throughout the Glitter Band. Between an apparently minor security flaw in the voting software and an apparent attack that left an entire habitat destroyed and the only survivors flawed beta-level copies of three of its inhabitants, Dreyfus is caught in a web of good intentions gone bad. Tension is high as the threads leading to a conspiracy to control the Glitter Band and a plan to destroy people’s rights ostensibly to protect them come together faster than the planners intended. There are secrets in the highest ranks of Panoply; even Dreyfus has kept some from himself. The endgame is creative, though as usual with Reynolds, neither plot nor solution is simple. The questions he raises about freedom and the fascinating solutions his characters come up with are relevant to our own time, and the thriller aspects keep us engaged with the magnificently imagined world in which those questions are resolved. --Regina Schroeder Calc Series A (group): Revelation Space Number of Words in Auth: 2 Formats : EPUB ABook : E_Only Title First Parm : Prefect EBook : Have Calc ESI Part 3 : 07 Calc ESI Part 2 : of Calc ESI Part 1 : 07 Custom Series : SIPY.Revelation Space.Scifan.7 of 7._.ICBF Enter Series Index : 07 of 07 Record Notes : Found Part of Series Calc Series Group : Revelation Space Title Post Pound : Prefect Words in Author Name: 2 Series Genre : Revelation Space Previous Series Index: 7 Test Text Series Index: 7 Raw Title : Prefect Title Length : 7 Title Parm A : Prefect Record ID : 1450 Enter New Series (Calced): Serified_E.Revelation Space.Scifan.07 of 07._.ICBF Author Parm Cn : Reynolds Calc Genre : Revelation Space Calc New Series : Revelation Space.... Series Parm B : 7 Series Parm A : Revelation Space Test Search : Prefect / Alastair Reynolds Number of Formats : 1 Title Pre Pound : Prefect ES Suffix : _ Words in Title : 1 Whole Title : Prefect Title Suffix : Prefect ES Name : Revelation Space Uncomma Author : Alastair Reynolds ES Genre : Scifan Compare Author : eq ES Group : Serified_E Test Compare Series to Entered: eq junk : >Prefect>>Alastair Reynolds ES Cover Quality : ICBF Quick Search : Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space Has Cover : Yes All Identifiers : amazon:B001KOTU88, google:or0psaSeIEgC, isbn:9780441017225 Single Author : Alastair Reynolds Sorted Author by LN, FN: Reynolds, Alastair Num of Aut : 1 Title Pre Parend : Prefect Author Parm A : Alastair Reynolds Calc ESI Combined : 07 of 190 Critically-acclaimed author Alastair Reynolds creates “a fascinating hybrid of space opera, police procedural and character study”(Publishers Weekly) in this novel in his Revelation Space universe.Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, the teeming hub of a human interstellar empire spanning many worlds. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead. But his investigation uncovers something far more serious than mass slaughter—a covert plot by an enigmatic entity who seeks nothing less than total control of the Glitter Band.

Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the Glitter Band habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead. But then he uncovers an even greater threat-a covert plot by an enigmatic entity seeking nothing less than total control of the Glitter Band.

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An entertaining tale.