false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171150359m/89195.jpg 89195 6 Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone. These days, his job is his life. A murderous attack against a Glitter Band habitat is nasty, but it looks to be an open-and-shut case - until Dreyfus starts looking under some stones that some very powerful people would really rather stayed unturned. What he uncovers is far more serious than mere gruesome murder: a covert takeover bid by a shadowy figure, Aurora (who may once have been human but certainly isn't now), who believes the people of the Glitter Band should no longer be in charge of their own destiny. Dreyfus discovers that to save something precious, you may have to destroy part of it. 3102565 12 4 2007 The Prefect (Revelation Space, Book 5) total:286|5:73|4:151|3:54|2:6|1:2| 286 1145 460 45 4 1 false false Fri Jul 04 12:25:07 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 13:47:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 04:35:35 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 04:41:37 -0700 2009 The Prefect takes place in his Revelation Space universe (before the time of the Melding Plague. Yellowstone is a human-colonized planet orbited by ten thousand individual habitats that comprise the Glitter Band. Each habitat is its own world, ranging from com...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 11:02:20 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 14:08:46 -0700 2009
The habita...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 02:01:22 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 13:27:30 -0700 2009 Revelation Space universe albeit at an earlier point in the timeline. We follow Field Prefect Tom Dreyfus as he begins an investigation that gradually expands encompassing a growing crisis that...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 15:15:47 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 14:44:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 10:25:07 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 16:49:17 -0800 2008
The voted weighting scheme didn't make sense- what decides whether a vote was correct or not- ...more...]]> 3 1 false true Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 15 07:49:10 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 20 12:09:43 -0700 2009 1 Pushing Ice, the last Reynolds' novel I read before this one. Nothing in that book rang true to me: characters, plot or action. As a result, I own that I may have been harsher in my reviews of Galactic North Tales from the Revelation Space Universe and The Six Directions of Space t...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 22 09:06:06 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 10:28:57 -0700 2008 Revelation Space and having been distinctly unimpressed. But after seeing a number of glowing reviews, I thought I'd give him another shot.

And The Prefect is... better. The story is relatively tight and well-plotted. As with Revela...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 09:48:36 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 11:21:05 -0700 2009
Prefect Tom Dreyfuss has a serious crime...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 09:48:24 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 19 06:05:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 23:21:05 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 23:48:06 -0700 2009
Races to a thrilling climax, but the ending somehow fails to pack quite the same punch that the entire book promises and deserves. Ma...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 04:22:40 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 04:24:26 -0800 2009
The start is a little slow, but once I got into it, I didn't want to put it down. Great plo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 27 15:07:13 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 13:56:10 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 15:07:13 -0700 2009
What a great story. Excel...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 20 13:01:43 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 13:08:53 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 08:18:10 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 08:18:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 07:38:27 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 07:17:53 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 21:27:37 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 21:32:01 -0700 2009 Shoots for mediocre, but aims low.

Mr. Reynolds creates a boring sf/mystery mashup using familiar sf tropes and exceptionally cliched dialogue. Reads like the teleplay for a below average episode of CSI.]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 21:47:08 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 09:45:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 08 09:36:56 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 04 08:54:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 16:57:23 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 16:57:23 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=89195