The Prefect (gollancz S.f.)

ISBN: 9780575082182
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Description:
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: a covert takeover bid by a shadowy figure, Aurora (who may once have been human but certainly isn't now), who believes the people of the Glitter Band should no longer be in charge of their own destiny. Dreyfus discovers that to save something precious, you may have to destroy part of it.

Listed Copies of this Book

There are no copies of this book listed

Century Rain (gollancz S.f.)Three hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. After a field-trip to goes ba...
No. of listed copies: 1
Absolution Gap (gollancz Sf S.)With Absolution Gap, Alastair Reynolds completes the star-spanning Inhibitors trilogy in which the previous books were Revelation Space and Redemption Ark. The Inhibitors are a mechanical plague, mindlessly but very reso...
No. of listed copies: 2
Chasm City (gollancz S.f.)Tanner Mirabel was a security specialist who never made a mistake - until the day a woman in his care was blown away by Argent Reivich, a vengeful young postmortal. Tanner's pursuit of Reivich takes him across light-year...
No. of listed copies: 0
Pushing Ice (gollancz S.f.)Some centuries from now, the exploration and exploitation of the Solar System is in full swing. On the cold edge of the system, Bella Lind, captain of the huge commercial spacecraft Rockhopper IV, helps fuel this new gol...
No. of listed copies: 0
Revelation SpaceDr Dan Sylveste, an archaeologist who has for years been fascinated with the long-dead alien race the Amarantin, is about to discover something that could change the course of mankind. But before he can act on anything h...
No. of listed copies: 1

see all books for Alastair Reynolds

Crystal Singer by Mccaffrey Anne
Her name was Killashandra Ree; and after ten grueling years of musical training she was young, beautiful-and s...
No. of listed copies: 0
The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts (t by Douglas Adams
A one-volume edition charting Arthur Dent's odyssey through space, comprising: THE HITCH HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE ...
No. of listed copies: 1
Century Rain (gollancz S.f.) by Alastair Reynolds
Three hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, re...
No. of listed copies: 1
Children Of The Mind (ender Wiggins Saga) by Orson Scott Card
In the conclusion of the Ender saga, Ender Wiggin confronts his ultimate challenge when his adopted world, Lus...
No. of listed copies: 1
The Amtrak Wars: Blood River Bk.4 by Patrick Tilley
Brickman consorts with the Mutes but the Federation don't want to lose their grip.
No. of listed copies: 1

See all listings in Science Fiction

This book has not yet been rated