Audio Book Review: Tapestry of Awe.

The Prefect (Book 5 in the Revelation Space series)

by Alistair Reynolds

narrated by John Lee

 

Back in the Yellowstone system this story is set amongst the Glitter band, a group of ten thousand human space habitats that are governed democratically via an organization called Panoply.  Each of the habitats have a central stalk that houses a poling core, using abstraction (a hand waving term for network), representatives from each habitat rotate through the civic duty of voting.

This idyllic thing comes crashing to a halt as an Alpha level imprint from the Silvestri 80, Aurora, takes over four habitats and manufactures warbots called Weevils to spread.  Meanwhile, a creature from the past called the Clockmaker which was thought destroyed resurfaces to threaten the maybe invincible Aurora.

Field Prefect Tom Dreyfus, Deputy Field Talia Ing, Deputy Field hyper-pig Sparva are just some of the key spicy characters leading the fight against the dark annihilators of humans in this installment.  I enjoy how the author juggles multiple story lines into a mesmerizing tapestry of entertainment.  Five out of five for this one.  Excellent job!

 

 

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