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Followed by. Elysium Fire. Aurora Rising (originally titled The Prefect) is a 2007 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. It is the fifth novel set in the Revelation Space universe, and takes place prior to the four previously released Revelation Space novels, but after some of the short stories.
12 de abr. de 2007 · When I sat down to read The Prefect, I thought I was reading a sci-fi mystery along the lines perhaps of Leviathan Wakes. Then I thought I was perhaps reading The Last Policeman set in space: the dogged detective solving a crime no one cares about or needs solved. Turns out it was a sprawling space opera, and that just isn't what I expected at all.
The Prefect was the original 2007 title of the first published novel in the A Prefect Dreyfus Emergency subseries of the Revelation Space series. Currently, with new sequels being gradually added to the series over the course of several years, newer editions of the novel had retitled it to Aurora Rising. The first follow-up novel is Elysium Fire.
26 de may. de 2009 · The Prefect (Revelation Space) Mass Market Paperback – May 26, 2009. Critically-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.
The Prefect. Alastair Reynolds. Penguin, 2008 - Fiction - 410 pages. A full-length novel set in the Revelation Spaceuniverse 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 ...
For me, at least, The Prefect was a make-or-break book and although it initially seemed it would repay my hope, in the end it extinguished it. It is set in the same brilliantly conceived universe as his first four novels ( Revelation Space , 2000; Chasm City ; Redemption Ark , 2002; and Absolution Gap , 2003), a setting which also united his recent Galactic North short story collection.
start quiz. QUESTION 1/10. In which year are students selected to become Prefects? QUESTION 2/10. What was there a painting of in the Prefects’ bathroom? QUESTION 3/10. What did Mr and Mrs Weasley give Percy as a gift for becoming a Prefect?
