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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100441017223

ISBN-139780441017225

eBay Product ID (ePID)71108505

Product Key Features

Book TitlePrefect

Number of Pages576 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

TopicScience Fiction / Action & Adventure, Science Fiction / Space Opera, Science Fiction / General

GenreFiction

AuthorAlastair Reynolds

Book SeriesRevelation Space Ser.

FormatUk- a Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight10.8 Oz

Item Length6.8 in

Item Width4.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"SUBLIME ENTERTAINMENT." - LOCUS "Evokes echoes of le Carré and Sayers with a liberal dash of Doctor Who." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "An entertaining tale." - SFFWORLD "[A] magnificently imagined world." - BOOKLIST, "SUBLIME ENTERTAINMENT." - LOCUS "Evokes echoes of le CarrT and Sayers with a liberal dash of Doctor Who." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "An entertaining tale." - SFFWORLD "[A] magnificently imagined world." - BOOKLIST, "SUBLIME ENTERTAINMENT." - LOCUS "Evokes echoes of le Carr and Sayers with a liberal dash of Doctor Who." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "An entertaining tale." - SFFWORLD "[A] magnificently imagined world." - BOOKLIST, "SUBLIME ENTERTAINMENT." -LOCUS "Evokes echoes of le Carré and Sayers with a liberal dash of Doctor Who." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "An entertaining tale." -SFFWORLD "[A] magnificently imagined world." -BOOKLIST, SUBLIME ENTERTAINMENT.” —LOCUS Evokes echoes of le Carré and Sayers with a liberal dash of Doctor Who.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY An entertaining tale.” —SFFWORLD [A] magnificently imagined world.” —BOOKLIST, Praise for The Prefect "This is solid British SF adventure, evoking echoes of le Carre and Sayers with a liberal dash of Doctor Who."-- Publishers Weekly "Absorbing...gripping in the extreme...A fine provocative portrait of utopia on the brink. The relentless narrative momentum it employs simply underscores the pertinent urgency of that topic. The resulting mixture of space opera and police procedure is sublime entertainment."-- Locus "A well-constructed amalgam of detective fiction, hard-SF and space opera."--Andromeda Spaceways "A great book and a worthy addition to the world of Revelation Space."--Sci Fi Book Spot "[A] magnificently imagined world."-- Booklist "Alastair Reynolds has developed real skill in mixing a detective investigation mystery with a background that is as thoroughly hard science as anybody's...Eminently satisfying."--SF Site

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Series Volume Number7

Dewey Decimal823/.914

Grade ToUP

SynopsisCritically-acclaimed author Alastair Reynolds creates "a fascinating hybrid of space opera, police procedural and character study"( Publishers Weekly ) in this novel in his Revelation Space universe. 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.