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

2025/05/24 by Paulo Pereira

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

Finished “Elysium Fire”.

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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…

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.