Series
Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies
Alastair Reynolds · 3 novels · 1 short story · 2007–2024
Senior Prefect Tom Dreyfus works for Panoply, the small police force charged with keeping order across the Glitter Band, tens of thousands of orbital habitats that make up a fiercely democratic society in Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space universe. Across The Prefect, Elysium Fire, and Machine Vendetta, Dreyfus investigates crimes and conspiracies that threaten to unravel the Glitter Band's fragile self-governance, from mass murder to secession movements. The books work as far-future police procedurals set generations before Revelation Space's main disasters.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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By decade
- 2000s1
- 2010s2
- 2020s1
Shape
3 novels · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:science fictionpolitical intrigueother star systemsfar futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Prefectdarkest
- Elysium Firebrightest · most intense
- Machine Vendettacalmest