Aurora Rising
Kindle Edition
Orbit · Ebook · April 21, 2020
Award-winning author Alastair Reynolds creates "a fascinating hybrid of space opera, police procedural and character study" (Publishers Weekly) with this novel set in the Revelation Space universe.
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- Who it’s for
- Big-idea space adventure with a hard-SF edge and an author you can follow anywhere.
- Genres
- Space Opera, Sci-Fi Crime, Hard Sci-Fi
- Published
- Orbit, April 21, 2020
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Award-winning author Alastair Reynolds creates "a fascinating hybrid of space opera, police procedural and character study" (Publishers Weekly) with this novel set in the Revelation Space universe. Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, the teeming hub of a human interstellar empire spanning many worlds.
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His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead. But his investigation uncovers something far more serious than mass slaughter -- a covert plot by an enigmatic entity who seeks nothing less than total control of the Glitter Band. Read more
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Big-idea space adventure with a hard-SF edge and an author you can follow anywhere.
Come here for
- spacefaring scale, grounded science
- mystery threaded through the void
Expect
- clean propulsion
- ideas doing real work
Where it sits
| Hard Sci-Fi | 87% |
|---|---|
| Sci-Fi Crime | 79% |
| Space Opera | 71% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Hard Sci-Fi
- Space Opera
- Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi
- Authors
- Alastair Reynolds
- Publisher
- Orbit
- Published
- April 21, 2020
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Hard Sci-Fi