Most inhabitants have built in computer routines in their brains that make these decisions for them, making a conscious effort on only the most important polls.Įvery habitat has a polling core, a giant computer that generates the polls and transmits the inhabitants’ votes. A giant computer network runs thousands of polls everyday to decide the general actions of the Glitter Band as a whole.
The Glitter Band is a group of ten-thousand orbital habitats orbiting Yellowstone with a population of 100-million humans.Īll habitats in the glitter band represent a different format of society, all linked by the common right to vote. Set a century before the devastating effects of the melding plague, the book is able to showcase the golden age of mankind alluded to in earlier books. The novel offers a thoroughly in-depth study of future technology, including augmented reality within the Revelation Space universe, owing its unique setting in the time-line. Tom Dreyfus is the titular prefect, a member of a special investigations police force called Panoply that is responsible for protecting the Glitter Band. Events take place prior to the advent of the Melding Plague that had already ruined the Glitter Band and caused a massive decline in Yellowstone civilization at the time of the other Revelation Space novels. The Prefect is set in the 25th century in the Glitter Band, the realm of thousands of orbital habitats surrounding the planet Yellowstone in the Epsilon Eridani system, and the height of human civilization at the time. While the novel takes place in the Revelation Space universe, it has little connection to the other novels. A sequel, Elysium Fire, was released in January 2018. It is the fifth novel set in the Revelation Space universe, and takes place prior to the four previously released Revelation Space novels, but after some of the short stories. Aurora Rising (originally titled The Prefect) is a 2007 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds.
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