Machine Vendetta

Name: Machine Vendetta
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Alastair Reynolds
ISBN: 9781668632321

Author: Alastair Reynolds

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 15 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 01/16/2024

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series—Machine Vendetta is a thrilling tale of deadly conspiracies and old enemies that refuse to die.

Panoply is a small, efficient police force, dedicated to maintaining the rule of democracy among the ten thousand disparate city-states orbiting the planet Yellowstone.

Ingvar Tench was one of Panoply's most experienced operatives. So why did she walk alone and unarmed into a habitat with a vicious grudge against her organization?

As his colleagues pick up the pieces following her death, Prefect Tom Dreyfus must face his conscience. Four years ago, when an investigation linked to one of his most dangerous adversaries got a little too personal, Dreyfus arranged for Tench to continue the inquiry by proxy. In using her, did Dreyfus also put her in the line of fire? And what does Tench's attack tell him about an enemy he had hoped was dormant?

The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies
Aurora Rising
Elysium Fire
Machine Vendetta

About Alastair Reynolds

Born in Barry, South Wales, Alastair Reynolds studied at Newcastle University and the University of St. Andrews. A former astrophysicist for the European Space Agency, he now writes full-time. He is the author of many short stories and twelve novels, including Chasm City, winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel, and House of Suns.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jamie on January 18, 2024

This is the best, most thrilling, and seemingly final book in the Prefect Dreyfus Emergency series. Reynolds achieves a masterful blend of mystery/police procedural, hard sci-fi, intrigue and action, all within the fascinating far future world of a distributed and loosely federated human civilizatio......more

Goodreads review by Rachel (TheShadesofOrange) on February 29, 2024

3.0 Stars Video Review: [URL not allowed] This is the third book in a sci fi thriller series. As someone who enjoys mysteries I was most intrigued by those aspects of the plots. This author's strength is in his ability to write epic worlds. So I always feel that his talent is lost on this in......more

Goodreads review by AndiReads on December 27, 2023

The third and perhaps final edition of the Prefect Dryfus Emergency Series. The series takes place in the Glitter Band - Ten thousand city-states orbiting planet Yellowstone. The Panoply is a small but mighty police and peacekeeping organization of which Tom Dreyfus is a high ranking officer. In the t......more

Goodreads review by Vadim on February 28, 2024

For some reason I adore the Revelation Space universe, although the ratings I've given most of the books are usually average or below average, including the past adventures of Prefect Dreyfus. Perhaps the main thing Old Man Al has managed to do in a quarter-century is to show a layered, thought-out......more

Goodreads review by Spad53 on August 22, 2024

This was a bit of a struggle to get through. I can’t explain why, a little too predictable perhaps. Or maybe I’ve simply read too much Reynolds. I’d recommend reading Chasm city, rather than this one, for various reasons, it’s much better for one, but it also gives a background to the Prefect Dreyfu......more

Quotes

Praise for the Prefect Dreyfus series:

"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 on Elysium Fire

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

"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)

"An adroit and fast-paced blend of space opera and police procedural, original and exciting." ―George R. R. Martin on Aurora Rising

"This is solid British SF adventure, evoking echoes of le Carre and Sayers with a liberal dash of Doctor Who." ―Publishers Weekly on Aurora Rising

"Absorbing...gripping in the extreme...A fine provocative portrait of utopia on the brink. The relentless narrative momentum it employs simply underscores the pertinent urgency of that topic. The resulting mixture of space opera and police procedure is sublime entertainment." ―Locus on Aurora Rising

"A touching and spectacularly intricate sequel that also functions well as a standalone ... Every chapter reveals another layer to the far-reaching mystery, all the while building to a stunning crescendo in which characters old and new band together to face a long-dreaded scenario. Fans of hard science fiction, noir, and space opera alike will be sucked in."—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)