Elysium Fire
Kindle Edition
Orbit · Ebook · January 23, 2018
We earn from qualifying purchases.
- Who it’s for
- A cold, high-velocity space-opera read with the machinery kept satisfyingly visible.
- Genres
- Space Opera, Sci-Fi Crime, Hard Sci-Fi
- Published
- Orbit, January 23, 2018
Nearest books
Matched by what the books are about, then ordered by what their readers also loved. Most of these share its genre: Space Opera.
Aurora RisingAlastair Reynolds72% matchAlso shares Sci-Fi Crime and Hard Sci-Fi
Prador MoonNeal Asher58% match
Permutation CityGreg Egan57% matchAlso shares Hard Sci-Fi
Ancestral NightElizabeth Bear57% match
The Accidental WarWalter Jon Williams57% match
The Promise of the ChildTom Toner57% match
Blackfish CitySam J. Miller, Vikas Adam56% match
DawnOctavia E. Butler58% match
For younger readers: Exo, Avalon, Alone Out Here
Start with three books, and this one can be the first.
Members get a new edition every morning: a route out from their books to essays, research and talks, with the reason for each.
Start with this bookAbout this book
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.
Continue reading
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. Read more
Why This Clicks
A cold, high-velocity space-opera read with the machinery kept satisfyingly visible.
Come here for
- hard-SF scale, brisk momentum
- collector-friendly space-opera credentials
Expect
- science-forward action
- long-haul immersion
Where it sits
| Space Opera | 79% |
|---|---|
| Hard Sci-Fi | 78% |
| Sci-Fi Crime | 77% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Alien Contact
- Space Exploration Fiction
- Authors
- Alastair Reynolds
- Publisher
- Orbit
- Published
- January 23, 2018
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Alien Contact