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kgbooklog ([personal profile] kgbooklog) wrote2008-07-08 10:16 pm

BL: The Prefect (Reynolds, Alastair)

Alastair Reynolds, The Prefect
Ace (2007) ISBN: 978-0-441-01591-7
Score: 0

Science fiction sharing a setting with a trilogy and another novel; I was told it could be read first, but I was confused trying to figure out the relationships between the political entities (Ultras/Conjoiners and Panoply/Glittering Band and Chasm City). I was also told this was a police procedural where the cops actually followed the procedures, and that may be so, but it seems like an awfully tyrannical system (cutting off all trade and communication to a habitat for a century just because someone there is suspected of exploiting a subtle computer glitch). After a couple chapters I decided I didn't like any of the characters, so I quit reading.

Next Book: Lawrence Watt-Evans, The Summer Palace

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