Elysium Fire
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- On Sale
- Jan 23, 2018
- Page Count
- 432 pages
- Publisher
- Orbit
- ISBN-13
- 9780316555678
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.
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"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. The big concepts and complex story effectively pull readers into intriguing speculation about human identity and potential."Publishers Weekly
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"Reynolds combines depth in characterization and dazzling hard-science applications to keep the reader turning pages."Booklist
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"Elysium Fire is a tremendously assured read, a fast-paced page-turner that delivers a well thought out story and characters you'll come to care about."The Guardian (UK)
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"A swashbuckling thriller--Pirates of the Caribbean meets Firefly--that nevertheless combines the author's trademark hard SF with effective, coming-of-age characterization."The Guardian on Revenger
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"Revenger is classic Reynolds-that is to say, top of the line science fiction, where characters are matched beautifully with ideas and have to find their place in a complex future. More!"Greg Bear on Revenger
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"A leading light of the new British space opera."Los Angeles Review of Books on Alastair Reynolds
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"One of the giants of the new British space opera."io9 on Alastair Reynolds
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"[Reynolds is] a mastersinger of the space opera."The Times (UK) on Blue Remembered Earth
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"Heir to writers like Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, Reynolds keeps up the tradition of forward thinking... An immensely thrilling, mind-bending piece of work."AV Club on House of Suns
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"[Reynolds] is the most gifted hard SF writers working today."Publishers Weekly on Beyond the Aquila Rift
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