Aurora Rising

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528 pages

English language

Published Aug. 9, 2018 by Orion Publishing Group, Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-4732-2336-3
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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.

Award-winning author Alastair Reynolds creates "a fascinating hybrid of space opera, police procedural and character study" (Publishers Weekly) with this novel set in the Revelation Space universe.

3 editions

reviewed Aurora Rising by Alastair Reynolds (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #1)

Slow start, strong finish

I enjoyed the world-building, the plot progression, and the reveals about the characters.

It felt incredible to me that this book was written in 2007 but, in a way, feels like it could have been inspired by today's current events. The concept that people in positions of power could destroy the government and that the voting public might actually be ok with that just kind of rocked my head. Another aspect that made this book a little difficult to read, frankly.

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  • Fiction, science fiction, general