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Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency #3) by Alastair Reynolds (2024)

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 17:30:00 +0000

Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency #3) by Alastair Reynolds (2024)

Author: Alastair Reynolds
First Published: January 16, 2024
Series: Prefect Dreyfus Emergency Book 3
Revelation Space Universe
Score: 9/10

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Panoply is a small, efficient police force, dedicated to maintaining the rule of democracy among the ten thousand disparate city-states orbiting the planet Yellowstone.

Ingvar Tench was one of Panoply’s most experienced operatives. So why did she walk alone and unarmed into a habitat with a vicious grudge against her organization?

Merlin's Gun by Alastair Reynolds (2000)

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:30:00 +0100

Merlin’s Gun by Alastair Reynolds (2000)

Author: Alastair Reynolds
First Published: May 1, 2000
Score: 8/10

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When Sora’s swallowship is taken out by a swarm during the war she is rescued by Merlin, a legendary man who has allegedly discovered a super-weapon built by the Way creators; a gun so powerful it I said to have stopped the previous war. Sora is sceptical, though, for Merlin has been missing for ten thousand years, yet he has not aged a day. As the current war between aliens and humans intensifies, the need to find this weapon becomes unquestionably urgent. They must find the gun before the enemy does and incinerates them. Can their quest to save humanity and end the war be achieved with Merlin’s gun?

The New Space Opera edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan (2007)

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 08:00:00 +0100

The New Space Opera edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan (2007)

Editors: Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
Authors: Gwyneth Jones and Ian McDonald and Robert Reed and Paul J. McAuley and Greg Egan and Kage Baker and Peter F. Hamilton and Ken Macleod and Tony Daniel and James Patrick Kelly and Alastair Reynolds and Mary Rosenblum and Stephen Baxter and Robert Silverberg and Gregory Benford and Walter Jon Williams and Nancy Kress and Dan Simmons
First Published: June 1, 2007
Score: 7/10

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SAVING TIAMAAT • Gwyneth Jones VERTHANDI’S RING • Ian McDonald HATCH • Robert Reed WINNING PEACE • Paul J. McAuley GLORY • Greg Egan MAELSTROM • Kage Baker BLESSED BY AN ANGEL • Peter F. Hamilton WHO’S AFRAID OF WOLF 359? • Ken Macleod THE VALLEY OF THE GARDENS • Tony Daniel DIVIDING THE SUSTAIN • James Patrick Kelly MINLA’S FLOWERS • Alastair Reynolds SPLINTERS OF GLASS • Mary Rosenblum REMEMBRANCE • Stephen Baxter THE EMPEROR AND THE MAULA • Robert Silverberg THE WORM TURNS • Gregory Benford SEND THEM FLOWERS • Walter Jon Williams ART OF WAR • Nancy Kress MUSE OF FIRE • Dan Simmons

Elysium Fire (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency #2) by Alastair Reynolds (2018)

Sat, 24 May 2025 10:00:00 +0100

Elysium Fire (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency #2) by Alastair Reynolds (2018)

Author: Alastair Reynolds
First Published: January 23, 2018
Series: Prefect Dreyfus Emergency Book 2
Revelation Space Universe
Score: 9/10

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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…

Aurora Rising (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency #1) by Alastair Reynolds (2007)

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 22:00:00 +0000

Aurora Rising (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency #1) by Alastair Reynolds (2007)

Author: Alastair Reynolds
First Published: April 12, 2007
Series: Prefect Dreyfus Emergency Book 1
Revelation Space Universe
Score: 9/10

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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.

Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space #4) by Alastair Reynolds (2021)

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 15:30:00 +0100

Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space #4) by Alastair Reynolds (2021)

Author: Alastair Reynolds
First Published: October 12, 2021
Series: Revelation Space Book 4
Revelation Space Universe
Score: 10/10

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For thirty years a tiny band of humans has been sheltering in the caverns of an airless, crater-pocked world called Michaelmas. Beyond their solar system lie the ruins of human interstellar civilization, stalked by a ruthless, infinitely patient cybernetic entity determined to root out the last few bands of survivors. One man has guided the people of Michaelmas through the hardest of times, and given them hope against the Miguel de Ruyter.When a lone human ship blunders into their system, and threatens to lead the wolves to Michaelmas, de Ruyter embarks on a desperate, near-suicide mission to prevent catastrophe. But an encounter with a refugee from the ship—the enigmatic woman who calls herself only Glass—leads to de Ruyter’s world being turned upside down.

Galactic North (Revelation Space Book 3.5) by Alastair Reynolds (2006)

Sun, 31 Mar 2024 07:00:00 +0100

Galactic North (Revelation Space Book 3.5) by Alastair Reynolds (2006)

Author: Alastair Reynolds
First Published: July 1, 2006
Series: Revelation Space Book 3.5
Revelation Space Universe
Score: 8/10

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A collection of eight short stories and novellas in the dark and turbulent world of Alastair Reynolds’ Revelation Space universe.

Centuries from now, solidarity stretches thin as humanity spreads past the solar system and to the nearest stars. Technology has produced powerful new tools-but lethal risk will always accompany great advancement. And without foresight, opposing groups may fracture multiple worlds. Between the Demarchists and the Conjoiners, the basic right to expand human intelligence-beyond its natural limits-has become a war-worthy cause. Only vast lighthugger starships bind these squabbling colonies together, manned by the panicky and paranoid Ultras. And the hyperpigs just try to keep their heads down. The rich get richer. And everyone tries not to think about the worrying number of extinct alien civilizations turning up on the outer reaches of settled space…because who’s to say that humanity won’t be next?

Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (Revelation Space Book 1.5) by Alastair Reynolds (2003)

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:00:00 +0000

Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (Revelation Space Book 1.5) by Alastair Reynolds (2003)

Author: Alastair Reynolds
First Published: February 1, 2003
Series: Revelation Space Book 1.5
Revelation Space Universe
Score: 8/10

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“Diamond Dogs"The planet Golgotha – supposedly lifeless – resides in a remote star system, far from those inhabited by human colonists. It is home to an enigmatic machine-like structure called the Blood Spire, which has already brutally and systematically claimed the lives of one starship crew that attempted to uncover its secrets. But nothing will deter Richard Swift from exploring this object of alien origin…

Chasm City (Revelation Space Book 0.5) by Alastair Reynolds (2001)

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 21:00:00 +0100

Chasm City (Revelation Space Book 0.5) by Alastair Reynolds (2001)

Author: Alastair Reynolds
First Published: May 1, 2001
Series: Revelation Space Book 0.5
Revelation Space Universe
Score: 9/10

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The once-utopian Chasm City – a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet – has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted – from the people to the very buildings they inhabit – only the most wretched sort of existence remains. For security operative Tanner Mirabel, it is the landscape of nightmares through which he searches for a lowlife postmortal killer. But the stakes are raised when his search brings him face to face with a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget.

Absolution Gap (Revelation Space #3) by Alastair Reynolds (2020)

Wed, 12 Apr 2023 21:00:00 +0100

Absolution Gap (Revelation Space #3) by Alastair Reynolds (2020)

Author: Alastair Reynolds
First Published: April 21, 2020
Series: Revelation Space Book 3
Revelation Space Universe
Score: 9/10

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The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life form reaching a certain level of intelligence – and they’ve targeted Humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situation is growing more desperate. But their little colony has just received an unexpected visitor: an avenging angel with the power to lead mankind to safety – or draw down its darkest enemy.

Redemption Ark (Revelation Space #2) by Alastair Reynolds (2002)

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 21:00:00 +0000

Redemption Ark (Revelation Space #2) by Alastair Reynolds (2002)

Author: Alastair Reynolds
First Published: January 1, 2002
Series: Revelation Space Book 2
Revelation Space Universe
Score: 9/10

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This stunning sequel to Revelation Space begins late in the twenty-sixth century. The human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger alien machines designed to detect intelligent life–and destroy it.