Elysium Fire
Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds, published by Orbit on January 23, 2018, is a science fiction narrative that delves into themes of corruption and idealism within a futuristic setting. This edition spans 432 pages and is presented in English. The story unfolds in a network of city-state habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, where a seemingly perfect democratic society grapples with a crisis as citizens begin to die unexpectedly due to a malfunction in their neural implants.
Readers will encounter Prefect Tom Dreyfus, who faces the challenge of maintaining order amidst rising panic and insurrection. As a charismatic leader incites a movement for independence among some habitats, Dreyfus must navigate the complexities of a society on the brink of chaos. The book explores elements of action and adventure, along with themes of alien contact and space exploration, providing a rich backdrop for the unfolding drama.
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Elysium Fire is a smoldering tale of murderers, secret cultists, tampered memories, and unthinkable power, of bottomless corruption and overpowering idealism from the king of modern space opera.
Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic human paradise.
But even utopia needs a police force. For the citizens of the Glitter Band that organization is Panoply, and the prefects are its operatives.
Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats and their hundred million citizens, people are dying suddenly and randomly, victims of a bizarre and unprecedented malfunction of their neural implants. And these “melters” leave no clues behind as to the cause of their deaths…
As panic rises in the populace, a charismatic figure is sowing insurrection, convincing a small but growing number of habitats to break away from the Glitter Band and form their own independent colonies.
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