To The Last Page

Picking up the pace a little - the first Prefect Dreyfus novel The Prefect was published in 2008 and later repackaged as Aurora Rising in preparation for the continuation of the series in 2018 with the second book Elysium Fire . Machine Vendetta looks to be the third and final part of the series, and if it ends here, it wraps up the trilogy rather neatly, following through on some of the underlying issues and wider problems being dealt with by the law-enforcement service for the Glitter Band, the Panoply. The Panoply are not so much a law-enforcement authority however as a kind of federal agency that ensures that the democratic process of polling cores on each of the thousands of habitats in the Glitter Band around Yellowstone are not tampered with in any way. Outside of that, the habitats have their own autonomy and Panoply only intervene when there is a serious matter that violates the Common Articles and could impact on other habitats. Not everyone accepts their authority but mos...