The Prefect
by Alastair Reynolds
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Author: Alastair ReynoldsEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-03
ISBN: 0441015913
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Ace Hardcover
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Book Review: Contrived and boring
Summary: 1 Stars
I've read Alastair Reynolds other books in this series and each book is getting worse and worse. It felt like one third of the book was a boring account of trying to escape from serving robots that had been reprogrammed to attack. Help, help, the drinks robot is chasing me! Big deal!
And then, I hate it when supposedly professional people act like complete morons. In this book, the main character brings his main witness and asset back to base where he knows they won't be safe. Why?
Then the final sequence only occurs because of complete incompetence. A policing organisation that is supposedly advanced and professional, leaves their main, very dangerous criminal completely unguarded. Duh. Stupidity. As if they would do this. But without this stupidity the final sequence would not occur in the way it did. The writer decided what he wanted the final sequence to be and then contrived a sequence of unlikely events to ensure it happened.
Summary of The Prefect
A full-length novel set in the Revelation Space universe 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 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, a crime that appalls even a hardened cop like Dreyfus. But then his investigation uncovers something even more potentially dangerous-a covert plot by an enigmatic entity seeking nothing less than total control of the Glitter Band.
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