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Title details for Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds - Available

Elysium Fire

#2 in series

by Alastair Reynolds
John Lee
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Elysium Fire is a smoldering tale of murderers, secret cultists, tampered memories, and unthinkable power, of bottomless corruption and overpowering idealism from the king of modern space opera.
Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic human paradise.
But even utopia needs a police force. For the citizens of the Glitter Band that organization is Panoply, and the prefects are its operatives.
Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats and their hundred million citizens, people are dying suddenly and randomly, victims of a bizarre and unprecedented malfunction of their neural implants. And these "melters" leave no clues behind as to the cause of their deaths. . .
As panic rises in the populace, a charismatic figure is sowing insurrection, convincing a small but growing number of habitats to break away from the Glitter Band and form their own independent colonies.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Inspector Drefus

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    January 23, 2018

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781478947851
      • File size: 513401 KB
      • Duration: 17:49:35

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from January 1, 2018
      Reynolds has been building his Revelation Space universe for decades in a series of stories and novels; this one is a direct sequel to 2007’s The Prefect, reprinted in 2017 as Aurora Rising, and it’s even fresher and smarter than its predecessors. Chasm City’s 10,000 habitats have existed in relative harmony for years, but an accelerating series of brain-frying deaths cast doubt on the ability of Panoply, the city’s law enforcement agency, to keep citizens safe. Panoply prefect Tom Dreyfus; his protégé, Thalia Ng; and a sardonic hyperpig, Sparver Bancal, attempt to stop the murders while shutting down a rabble-rousing provocateur. This novel’s ideas are mind-stretching, including a limbo where copies of the dead can be kept and interrogated, and a chillingly mischievous AI that tempts and mocks Dreyfus. Familiarity with the earlier novel might help readers sort out the multiple plot threads. The big concepts and complex story effectively pull readers into intriguing speculation about human identity and potential.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In this sequel to THE PREFECT, narrator John Lee draws listeners back to the 25th century just in time for a new crisis. In clipped, authoritative tones, Lee brings the Panoply police force prefects to life as they investigate malfunctions in brain implants that are causing unexpected deaths across multiple worlds. Lee's steady pacing and autocratic inflection enhance this galactic police procedural, particularly the magnitude of the moral decisions that must be made to save as many lives as possible. Unexpected plot revelations and the possible future repercussions of current events will have listeners eagerly awaiting the next installment in the series. J.M. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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