The Prefect - Alastair Reynolds - cover artist Chris Moore
"The Prefect" - Novel, Science Fiction - [0749 - 2017-06-25]
"The Prefect" (2007) by Alastair Reynolds is a science fiction novel and is also known as book 5 in the 5 book (so far) "Revelation Space" series published during 2000-2007. Curious readers may ask can this novel be read without reading the prior books: "Revelation Space"(2000), "Chasm City"(2001), "Redemption Ark"(2002) and "Absolution Gap"(2003). In truth yes it can but your enjoyment and the comprehension of story events would be greatly enhanced if you had read the other books. In lieu of reading the books I would research the extensive and detailed articles about these books in the Wikipedia.
This is a police procedural, a serious crime has been committed and the local law enforcement agency - the Panoply - is charged to apprehend the perpetrators. Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, an officer of the Panoply, and is leading the investigation. The crime is the destruction of an habitat in the Glitter Band resulting in 900 deaths. The Glitter Band is a ring of space born palaces circulating the planet Yellowstone. Each palace is an independent fiefdom and decadents is the prevailing life style. Against the background of Reynolds "Revelation Space" universe the investigation becomes a convoluted web that kept my interest to the last page.
This is an elaborate and detailed "detective-type" science-fiction story that kept me up many evenings. Alastair Reynolds crams an encyclopedia of background in this novel that induced this reader to put aside many required tasks to finish this book. I am not exaggerating when I use the term encyclopedia. As mentioned the Wikipedia has numerous pages on the characters, factors and locations of Revelation Space. Readers are strongly encouraged to check out the information - I was impressed, indeed.
Mr. Reynolds, with his Ph.D in astronomy is a master at technological extrapolation. Therefore this story exhibits many "hard" aspects of hardware type science-fiction that will cause long time fans to weep with joy and others to whimper with annoyance as I have said before. I wept, oh yes I wept!
The Prefect - Alastair Reynolds - cover artist Chris Moore
"The Prefect" - Novel, Science Fiction - [0749 - 2017-06-25]
"The Prefect" (2007) by Alastair Reynolds is a science fiction novel and is also known as book 5 in the 5 book (so far) "Revelation Space" series published during 2000-2007. Curious readers may ask can this novel be read without reading the prior books: "Revelation Space"(2000), "Chasm City"(2001), "Redemption Ark"(2002) and "Absolution Gap"(2003). In truth yes it can but your enjoyment and the comprehension of story events would be greatly enhanced if you had read the other books. In lieu of reading the books I would research the extensive and detailed articles about these books in the Wikipedia.
This is a police procedural, a serious crime has been committed and the local law enforcement agency - the Panoply - is charged to apprehend the perpetrators. Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, an officer of the Panoply, and is leading the investigation. The crime is the destruction of an habitat in the Glitter Band resulting in 900 deaths. The Glitter Band is a ring of space born palaces circulating the planet Yellowstone. Each palace is an independent fiefdom and decadents is the prevailing life style. Against the background of Reynolds "Revelation Space" universe the investigation becomes a convoluted web that kept my interest to the last page.
This is an elaborate and detailed "detective-type" science-fiction story that kept me up many evenings. Alastair Reynolds crams an encyclopedia of background in this novel that induced this reader to put aside many required tasks to finish this book. I am not exaggerating when I use the term encyclopedia. As mentioned the Wikipedia has numerous pages on the characters, factors and locations of Revelation Space. Readers are strongly encouraged to check out the information - I was impressed, indeed.
Mr. Reynolds, with his Ph.D in astronomy is a master at technological extrapolation. Therefore this story exhibits many "hard" aspects of hardware type science-fiction that will cause long time fans to weep with joy and others to whimper with annoyance as I have said before. I wept, oh yes I wept!