Machine Vendetta

Alastair Reynolds

Jan 2024 · Sold by Orbit

About this ebook

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 
 

Ratings and reviews

Not a bad read because I love the revelation space universe but the story overall was a bit too easy. Like in a lot of Reynolds work, there is a great set up for an interesting story but then it kind of falls apart. It felt like I had already read this book because it was just rehashed material. And every antagonist just hands over their motivation too easily. It felt like every story where the bad guy gives away his master plan to the good guy before fulfilling whatever they were trying to do just in time for the good guy to stop them. It was all too predictable and in the end unfulfilling.

So exzellent

About the author

Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He studied at Newcastle and St. Andrews Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. He stopped working as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency to become a full-time writer. Revelation Space and Pushing Ice were shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award; Revelation Space, Absolution Gap, Diamond Dogs, and CenturyRain were shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award, and Chasm City won the British Science Fiction Award.