Helping to keep the peace throughout thousands of utopian city-states orbiting the planet Yellowstone, prefect Tom Dreyfus investigates the baffling sudden deaths of innumerable citizens at the same time an increasingly influential, charismatic figure begins sowing seeds of insurrection. By the author of The Prefect. Original. 75,000 first printing. 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.For more from Alastair Reynolds, check out:Revenger
