Author:
Alastair Reynolds
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Learn moreElysium 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.
Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He studied at Newcastle and St. Andrews Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. he stopped working as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency to become a full-time writer. Revelation Space and Pushing Ice were shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award; Revelation Space, Absolution Gap, Diamond Dogs, and Century Rain were shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award, and Chasm City won the British Science Fiction Award.
Audiobook details
Narrator:
John Lee
ISBN:
9781478947851
Length:
17 hours 49 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hachette Audio
Publication date:
January 23, 2018
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#33,592 Overall
Genre rank:
#1,555 in Science Fiction
Reviews
"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."โPublishers Weekly "Reynolds combines depth in characterization and dazzling hard-science applications to keep the reader turning pages."โBooklist "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."โThe Guardian (UK) "A swashbuckling thriller--Pirates of the Caribbean meets Firefly--that nevertheless combines the author's trademark hard SF with effective, coming-of-age characterization."โThe Guardian on Revenger "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!"โGreg Bear on Revenger "A leading light of the new British space opera."โLos Angeles Review of Books on Alastair Reynolds "One of the giants of the new British space opera."
โio9 on Alastair Reynolds "[Reynolds is] a mastersinger of the space opera."
โThe Times (UK) on Blue Remembered Earth "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."
โAV Club on House of Suns "[Reynolds] is the most gifted hard SF writers working today."
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