Description:

Featuring Inspector Dreyfus - one of Alastair Reynolds most popular characters - this is a fast paced SF crime story, combining a futuristic setting with a gripping tale of technology, revolution and revenge. One citizen died a fortnight ago. Two a week ago. Four died yesterday . . . and unless the cause can be found - and stopped - within the next four months, everyone will be dead. For the Prefects, the hunt for a silent, hidden killer is on . . . Alastair Reynolds has returned to the world of The Prefect for this stand-alone SF mystery in which no one is safe. The technological implants which connect every citizen to each other have become murder weapons, and no one knows who or what the killer is - or who the next targets will be. But their reach is spreading, and time is not on the Prefects' side. **

Review

"This novel's ideas are mind-stretching, including a limbo where copies of the dead can be kept and interrogated, and a chillingly mischievous AI that tempts and mocks Dreyfus. The big concepts and complex story effectively pull readers into intriguing speculation about human identity and potential."― * *Publishers Weekly**

"Reynolds combines depth in characterization and dazzling hard-science applications to keep the reader turning pages."― * *Booklist**

" Elysium Fire is a tremendously assured read, a fast-paced page-turner that delivers a well thought out story and characters you'll come to care about."― *The Guardian (UK)*

"A swashbuckling thriller-- Pirates of the Caribbean meets Firefly --that nevertheless combines the author's trademark hard SF with effective, coming-of-age characterization."― * The Guardian on Revenger

" Revenger is classic Reynolds-that is to say, top of the line science fiction, where characters are matched beautifully with ideas and have to find their place in a complex future. More!"― Greg Bear on Revenger*

"A leading light of the new British space opera."
― * Los Angeles Review of Books on Alastair Reynolds

"One of the giants of the new British space opera."
― * io9 on Alastair Reynolds

"[Reynolds is] a mastersinger of the space opera."
― * The Times (UK) on Blue Remembered Earth

"Heir to writers like Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, Reynolds keeps up the tradition of forward thinking... An immensely thrilling, mind-bending piece of work."
― * AV Club on House of Suns

"[Reynolds] is the most gifted hard SF writers working today."
― * Publishers Weekly on Beyond the Aquila Rift

About the Author

Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He studied at Newcastle and St. Andrews Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. He stopped working as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency to become a full-time writer. Revelation Space and Pushing Ice were shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award; Revelation Space, Absolution Gap, Diamond Dogs, and Century Rain were shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award, and Chasm City won the British Science Fiction Award.