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The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds

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Also by Alastair Reynolds:

Machine Vendetta, September 2023
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Shadow Captain, January 2019
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year, April 2017
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Poseidon's Wake, September 2016
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Poseidon's Wake, February 2016
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On the Steel Breeze, June 2015
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Blue Remembered Earth, June 2012
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Terminal World, June 2011
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House Of Suns, June 2010
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House Of Suns, June 2009
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The Prefect, June 2008
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Galactic North, June 2007
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Century Rain, June 2006
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The Prefect
Alastair Reynolds

Ace Hardcover
June 2008
On Sale: June 3, 2008
416 pages
ISBN: 0441015913
EAN: 9780441015917
Hardcover
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A full-length novel set in the Revelation Space universe that’s “sublime entertainment” and “gripping in the extreme.”( Locus)

Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of 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, a crime that appalls even a hardened cop like Dreyfus. But then his investigation uncovers something even more potentially dangerous—a covert plot by an enigmatic entity seeking nothing less than total control of the Glitter Band…

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