Elysium Fire
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Elysium Fire
| Author | Alastair Reynolds |
|---|---|
| Published | 2018 |
| Pages | 432 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The second of Alastair Reynolds’s Dreyfus novels: citizens of the Glitter Band are dying as the neural implants linking them to the habitats’ shared systems fail, and Tom Dreyfus has to work out whether it is a defect, an attack or a cover, while a secessionist movement argues for dissolving the Band’s one binding institution. A failure cascade in deployed hardware, investigated as a crime. |
Elysium Fire
Where I heard about it
- The a16z infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, B tier (“also worth reading”), volume two of the Dreyfus Emergencies, which they rate “possibly better” than the Inhibitor trilogy.
About this edition
Readable after The Prefect; the premise assumes you know what a prefect is for.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from.
- Alastair Reynolds — the author.
- The Prefect — the first Dreyfus novel, reissued as Aurora Rising.
- Machine Vendetta — the third.
- Revelation Space · Redemption Ark · Absolution Gap · Chasm City — the rest of the universe.
- Science Fiction — the genre page.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.