Machine Vendetta: 3 (The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies)

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That's not the case here, as it's mostly a follow-up to the events of four years ago, which sought to resolve the Clockmaker and Aurora situation. About halfway through the book, the storyline takes a sharp turn and concentrates on the interaction between Creature and the demigod Aurora. That turned out not to be a problem, since gradually all the background I needed was filled in, especially given the fact that the story begins in the midst of multiple crises that make the basic facts crystal clear from the opening. Depending on your preferences this may be considered mundane, if not dull, because there isn't anything particularly exciting and certainly nothing epic. Machine Vendetta is the third book in the Prefect Dreyfus Emergency series featuring a officer of the law for a system of floating city states that orbit the planet Yellowstone, and the enemy that wants to destroy everything including Tom Dreyfus.

As his colleagues pick up the pieces following her death, Prefect Tom Dreyfus must face his conscience. A prefect who happens to be a hyperpig (an uplifted pig functioning alongside humans) has apparently betrayed his office and staged a suicide attack on one habitat.

I'm getting a little jaded on evil AI stories, but Reynolds has a different approach that is intriguing. MACHINE VENDETTA is an enormously engrossing Hard SF Space Opera, third in Alastair Reynolds' PREFECT DREYFUS EMERGENCY (which Series includes the also exceptional AURORA RISING and ELYSIUM FIRE). The prefects are, after all, people devoted to their duties, even at the expense of much private life. Reynolds combines depth in characterization and dazzling hard-science applications to keep the reader turning pages. Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world.

Panoply is a small, efficient police force, dedicated to maintaining the rule of democracy among the ten thousand disparate city-states orbiting the planet Yellowstone. Meanwhile, Creature has brought into the prefecture a candidate for membership the daughter of the murdered prefect, who is not who she. Alastair Reynolds is one of my very favourite authors, every book is a much-anticipated event, and with Poseidon's Wake he shows yet again why that is. Dreyfus has an additional investment as unknown to many in Elysium Fire he had to make a secret deal with Aurora for the greater good.I would recommend the book to people who enjoy the science in science fiction and really enjoy a detailed and rich future world. Dreyfus and Ng start working on clues that bring out vital facts about Aurora’s origins that might give them and Panoply a fighting chance at surviving her onslaught against them.