Machine Vendetta: 3 (The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies)

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Machine Vendetta: 3 (The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies)

Machine Vendetta: 3 (The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies)

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In the third in the series Dreyfus has multiple emergencies on his hands including neural implants melting, attacks and two potentially war starting events involving his own colleagues. As his colleagues pick up the pieces following her death, Prefect Tom Dreyfus must face his conscience. Machine Vendetta is the third book in the Prefect Dreyfus Emergency series featuring a officer of the law for a system of floating city states that orbit the planet Yellowstone, and the enemy that wants to destroy everything including Tom Dreyfus. I confess that I did not find this episode as compelling as the others, partly because I could get the mystery pretty early, it's telegraphed pretty easily for anyone paying attention. 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 civilization often barely recognizable as such due to radical genetic and/or cybernetic engineering.

Machine Vendetta" has everything: adults with the size and mental development of babies; bombed monasteries; secret cults secretly building a computer to trap two near-gods; upgraded pigs and lemurs: a mysterious mansion on a deserted asteroid; a 100 page section of non-stop action; two competing evil near omnipotent A I upgrades; long-lived interstellar posts human traders and their miles long ships; the list goes on. Tench had no intention of arriving at this habitat, but her navigation and communication systems have been surreptitiously taken over, redirecting her from her original target to this violent and dangerous place. This is the third, and probably last, of the Prefect Dreyfus stories that Reynolds has crafted in his Revelation Space universe but in a different time period.

That turned out not to be a problem, since gradually all the background I needed was filled in, especially given the fact that the story begins in the midst of multiple crises that make the basic facts crystal clear from the opening.

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. Although this is the third book in the Prefect Dreyfus series, and I had not read the previous books, I found "Machine Vendetta" to be perfectly readable, understandable, and highly enjoyable.Dreyfus has an additional investment as unknown to many in Elysium Fire he had to make a secret deal with Aurora for the greater good. Now to be truthful, after all the years since I read the previous two novels, I didn’t remember much at all about them before plunging into Machine Vendetta. Alastair Reynolds has produced a fine, fast-paced thriller in Machine Vendetta, the third, and apparently final novel in the Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies series. The Panoply is a small but mighty police and peacekeeping organization of which Tom Dreyfus is a high ranking officer. Dreyfus, Jane Aumonier, the senior officer of the Panoply, Thalia Ng and other prefects have to unravel multiple mysteries to understand the depth of betrayal and AI infiltration they are facing.

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. As Tench’s mentor and friend, Tom Dreyfus is brought in to investigate her death and the events leading up to it – What was the reason for the trip?

I don't know if this is a counterpoint to some of the police abuse stories we've seen recently, but it's hard not to see it as such.



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