The Prefect
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| Author | Alastair Reynolds |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Gollancz |
| Released | 2 April 2007 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 512 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-575-07716-6 |
The Prefect is a 2007 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds ( ISBN 0-575-07716-6). It is the fifth novel set in the Revelation Space universe, although it takes place prior to the four previously released RS novels, though after some of the RS short stories.
[edit] Plot summary
The Prefect is set in approximately the 23rd century in the Glitter Band, the realm of thousands of orbital habitats surrounding the planet Yellowstone in the Epsilon Eridani system, and the height of human civilization at the time. Events take place prior to the advent of the Melding Plague that had already ruined the Glitter Band and caused a massive decline in Yellowstone civilization at the time of the other Revelation Space novels. Tom Dreyfuss is the titular prefect, a member of a special investigations police force called the Panoply that is responsible for protecting the Glitter Band. A murder Dreyfuss is investigating ends up leading to one revelation after another until nothing is as it had seemed.
